Mick Waddy

The Reverend Ernest Frederick Waddy, known as Mick Waddy, (5 October 1880 – 23 September 1958) was an Australian clergyman, schoolmaster and a cricketer who played first-class cricket before the First World War for New South Wales and then from 1919 to 1922 in England for Warwickshire. He was born in Morpeth, New South Wales and died at South Littleton, Worcestershire.

Waddy came from a family of cricketers: his brothers Edgar Lloyd Waddy (Gar) and Percival Stacy Waddy (Stacy) both played first-class cricket. He was educated at the King's School, Parramatta and at the University of Sydney, and was ordained as a priest in the Church of England, serving in the 1900s as the curate in the parish of Singleton, New South Wales, where his brother Stacy was the vicar.

As a cricketer, Waddy was a right-handed batsman sometimes used as an opener, though his highest score was made batting at No 7; he also bowled right-arm medium-pace, but took no wickets in his three overs in first-class cricket. After a single unsuccessful appearance in first-class cricket for New South Wales in 1902–03, he returned to the team in 1904–05 and was immediately successful, scoring an unbeaten 129 in his first match of the season, the game against South Australia, this being the highest score of his career. He retained his place in the New South Wales team for the major Sheffield Shield matches for the next four seasons, though he was not always successful: in 1906–07, he managed just 46 runs in five innings across the four matches in which he played. He returned to form in 1907–08, however, when he averaged 63 runs per innings and hit two centuries. In the New South Wales match against the touring England team he scored an unbeaten 107 and a second innings 57. After this, he was added as emergency cover twelfth man to the Australian team for the fifth Test match, though he was not required to play. And at the start of the 1908–09 season, there was newspaper speculation that he could be in line for the 1909 Australian Test tour to England.

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