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50 from nine deliveries; an unbeatable record for the quickest half century in terms of deliveries faced. Referring to this innings, a journalist wrote "Hurtle
Willsmore was a hard, but not wild hitter, and this demoralising burst of hitting was the result of perfectly timed strokes." Willsmore made 187, his highest score in district cricket.
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Willsmore played two more first-class matches in the 1920/21 season before being omitted but continued to play for Sturt, including a match in the 1921/22 season against
University when he hit each of the first seven deliveries he faced for six, and then boundaries from the next three, reaching his
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Willsmore was chosen for all four of South
Australia's first-class matches in the 1914/15 Australian domestic season, the last before the temporary cessation of first-class cricket due to the war. While preliminarily a batsman, Willsmore was also an effective leg-spin bowler, once taking 7/50 in a
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Willsmore worked at Scotch until his retirement in 1957, in the process becoming "one of the great cornerstones" of the college. A history of Scotch
College declared "Hurtle was one of the most popular masters to ever teach at Scotch, and renowned for his patience, whether working with a class of
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Willsmore had his best club season in 1924/25, scoring three centuries and two half-centuries from seven innings but did not return to the South
Australian side. He retired from Adelaide district cricket in 1929, having scored 5666 runs at 34.97 and taken 245 wickets at 22.66.
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Adelaide Oval, taking 4/65 in Victoria's second innings, which was to be his best first-class bowling figures. He was reportedly chosen to tour New Zealand with an Australian team but never received his letter of invitation.
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