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he hit 97 and this was to be the highest score of his first-class career. Having been instrumental in the victory in his previous
University Match in 1894 with his bowling, he was 33 not out when Oxford secured a dramatic victory by four wickets in the 1896 game against Cambridge, Oxford knocking off
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In 1898, Bardswell played only in a couple of first-class matches for MCC against the
Universities, but at the start of the 1899 season he reappeared for Lancashire, playing as captain in the first six games of the season, but standing aside when
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Bardswell returned to the Oxford team for the 1896 but after his hand injury he scarcely bowled at all: he took just two wickets in 1896 and another two in 1897, and did not bowl at all after that. Instead, he won a second
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resumed his cricket career in June. That was the end of
Bardswell's first-class cricket career apart from one appearance for Lancashire in an end-of-season match in 1902, in which he was not at all successful.
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December 1906, Bardswell was a committee member of MCC; he had had an operation earlier in the year, but his death in New Orleans was described as happening "very suddenly".
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330 to win after incurring a 117 deficit on first innings. Later in the season he again played for
Lancashire; in his 16 first-class matches in 1896, he averaged 27.80 with the bat and took 32 catches.
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University team. In the early part of the year, however, though notionally at Oxford, he took part in a three-month
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