Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

To be held on Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday
6th, 7th, 8th & 9th August 2026

Hedley Verity. Yorkshire & England 1930-1939. Yorkshire navy blue 1st XI cap, by ‘W.V. Brown, Hosier, Eton’. The cap with the Yorkshire white rose emblem to the front, worn by Verity during his playing career with the county. Slight moth holing to peak and to the right of the emblem, soiling and wear to inside lining otherwise in good condition. A rare opportunity to acquire a cap of a true Yorkshire cricketing legend. Sold with a signed letter of provenance to this effect from G. Douglas Verity, son of Hedley, to the vendor and dated September 2003
During his playing career, Hedley Verity took 1,558 first-class wickets for Yorkshire at an incredible average of 13.70. He took five or more wickets in an innings on 141 occasions and ten or more in a match on 48 occasions. Verity was born in Leeds and, from an early age, wished to play cricket for Yorkshire. When Wilfred Rhodes, the incumbent Yorkshire left-arm spinner, announced his retirement, Verity had a successful trial in the team in 1930, and led the national bowling averages with 64 wickets at an average of 12.42. In 1931, his first full season, he was awarded his county cap and he went on to achieve the rare feat of taking all 10 wickets in an innings, against Warwickshire; the following year, he again took all 10 wickets, against Nottinghamshire, while conceding just 10 runs. The latter bowling figures remain a record in first-class cricket for the fewest runs conceded while taking all 10 wickets. He established himself as part of a strong bowling unit, which helped Yorkshire win the County Championship seven times in his ten seasons with the club. In that time, Verity was never lower than fifth in the national bowling averages and took over 150 wickets in every year except his first

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