Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
31st October, 1st & 2nd November 2025

Warren Bardsley. New South Wales & Australia 1903-1926. Single page handwritten letter from Bardsley on ruled paper, dated 2nd August 1953[?]. Writing from Sydney, Bardsley is replying to a request for his autograph, but states ‘I am wondering how you obtained my private address- perhaps through George Duckworth whose broadcasting of [the] Old Trafford Test was excellent and quite a treat to listen to after the others. I am afraid that cricket out here and in your country is at a very low standard at present but trust that from now on it will improve a lot and very quickly’. Nicely signed ‘Warren Bardsley’. Horizontal and vertical folds, small loss to one corner, odd nicks and creasing to edges, otherwise in good condition.
Warren Bardsley is listed as player/cap number ninety four in the list of Australian Test players, playing his first Test match for Australia against England at Edgbaston in May 1909. Bardsley toured England on four occasions with the Australian team from 1909 to 1926 (captain in two Tests), also South Africa in 1921/22, New Zealand in 1909/10 and North America in 1913. A left-handed opening batsman, he scored 17,031 first-class runs, highest 264, at an average of 49.94, and became the first batsman to score a century in both innings of a Test match, against England at the Oval in 1909.

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