Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Hedley Verity

Hedley Verity
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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/July 31, 2013 by BencherliteTalk 09:18, 17 July 2013 (UTC)



Hedley Verity (1905–43) was a professional cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1930 and 1939. Critics regard him as one of the most effective slow left-arm bowlers to have played cricket. In 1932, he took all 10 wickets in an innings against Nottinghamshire while conceding just 10 runs. These bowling figures remain, as of 2013, a record in first-class cricket for the fewest runs conceded while taking all 10 wickets. Verity was never lower than fifth in the national bowling averages and took over 150 wickets in every year except his first. He played regularly for England and achieved the best performance of his career when he took 15 wickets against Australia in a Test match at Lord's Cricket Ground in 1934. The outbreak of the Second World War ended his career and he joined the Green Howards in 1939, and he achieved the rank of captain. During the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943, Verity was severely wounded and captured by the Germans. Taken to Italy, he died in Caserta from his injuries and was buried there.

3 points: 70th anniversary of death during WW2 (it was a very notable death), 1 year FA. Closest sports article scheduled for June 27. Last cricket article Percy Fender on 28 May. Sarastro1 (talk) 21:03, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, notable death, relevant date. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 01:03, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support I'd love to see this magic and tragic figure on Main Page, especially as this date falls in an Ashes year and on the eve of the 3rd Test. --Dweller (talk) 21:57, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I've scheduled Leg before wicket for 10th July, the day of the First Test, but I don't have a problem personally with running a cricket biography three weeks after that on this anniversary. BencherliteTalk 11:08, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose As leg before wicket is already fixed in the schedule, I oppose to this TFA in order to counter systemic bias wrt cricket. Dvh369 (talk) 09:09, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Support --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:01, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support' I have no problems with runs of similar articles. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 03:59, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Support having two related stories three weeks apart isn't a big deal. Hot Stop talk-contribs 18:02, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Support Me, too.--RekishiEJ (talk) 08:57, 9 July 2013 (UTC)