Walter Hearne
Cricket Player
1864 – 1925
Who was Walter Hearne?
Walter Hearne was an English cricketer for Kent CCC. He was the elder brother of the great Middlesex bowler J.T.Hearne and was a bowler of somewhat similar style, being a medium paced right-hander with great accuracy and a pronounced off-break. However, unlike his younger sibling, Walter Hearne was not physically robust and suffered throughout his short career from knee problems, which ultimately led to his giving up the game at for the time a very young age. Also, even in his best season, Walter Hearne did not demonstrate that he possessed John Thomas’ sting on a firm pitch: indeed on the best wicket he had to bowl during 1894 at the Oval, he was severely punished taking only two wickets for 129. There was, however, no denying his deadliness on sticky wickets: in one spell during 1894 he took in three games thirty-eight wickets for 241 runs, including thirteen for 98 against Surrey at Catford. Walter Hearne's cricket basically began and ended with his bowling: prior to making a score of 34 not out in his last-ever match his highest score had been only 22, and he was not a strong field as his more famous brother was.
Although most of his first-class cricket was played between 1892 and 1894, Walter Hearne actually played for Kent as early as 1887, but in one of the driest-ever English summers he met with very little success and the emergence of Frederick Martin as Kent's main bowling force on sticky wickets meant he did not get another chance until 1890 – when again he failed to establish himself. With Martin declining abruptly in 1892 and Walter Wright affected by an unfortunate injury, however, Walter Hearne seized his first chance of playing regularly in first-class cricket and became Kent's leading wicket-taker with eighty-eight wickets. Against Somerset he took twelve wickets for 114 runs, whilst he took ten against both Nottinghamshire and Sussex.
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