A right-handed batsman, and leg break bowler, Vigar served as an all-rounder with 8,858 runs at 26.28 and 241 wickets at 37.90.

[2] He made minor county and invitation appearances on occasion up to 1965, and spent three years coaching West of Scotland before retiring.

That day, Essex faced Worcestershire and was bowled for a duck by Peter Jackson before making 24 not out in the second innings.

[8] He played four more matches that season, amassing a total of 50 runs at 8.33,[9] and taking four wickets at 58.75,[10] including a career-best 2/39 against Derbyshire on 25 August.

[11] Vigar became a more regular fixture in the 1939 season,[2] where, from June onwards, he began opening the batting on occasion.

[12] Playing in 14 County Championship matches, his return of 282 runs at 20.21 including a maiden century,[9] 121 against Gloucestershire on 8 July.

[13] Vigar had originally been promoted up the order as a nightwatchman, however he survived to score his century the next day after the player he had been intended to protect, Jack O'Connor, had been dismissed for a duck.

[1] Vigar also took eight wickets during the season at 22.62,[10] composed largely from a 4/20 against Cambridge University on 24 June to take Essex to an innings victory.

[14] His other contributions were limited during the season, with single figure scores and only small numbers of overs being bowled,[12] nevertheless Essex reached 4th in the County Championship that year.

[18] The two teams met again on 2 August at Taunton Cricket Ground, where Vigar made one run and did not bowl.

[21] Vigar then played for the West against Glamorgan at Cardiff Arms Park on 18 August 1945, where he scored 37 and two wickets.

[10] His season began strongly, with his three half-centuries on the trot,[12] and then the second century of his career – 101 in the second innings against Northamptonshire on 1 June.

[25] He followed this with 8/128 on 10 August against Leicestershire, the 80th best performance by an Essex bowler,[26] beating his previous best of 6/78 by some margin and reaching a landmark of 50 first-class wickets, though he was unable to prevent a draw.

[29] He began his season on 3 May, with a match against Surrey which had low returns of 23 and one, and no wickets,[30] followed by a knock of 84 against Cambridge University.

[1] Vigar's batting was not bringing consistent returns,[2] and he narrowly missed out on 1,000 runs in the 1948 season, ending with 964 at 25.36,[9] supported by 27 wickets at 41.48.

Vigar collected two wickets for 66 runs during the Australians only innings,[43] however one over bowled before lunch has subsequently entered Essex Club folklore.

The first of his "barely turning" deliveries "fizzed straight through and Bradman, who was on strike, calmly patted it back," Vigar was heard to say "I've got this fella's measure.

"[46] He was then, however, hit to the boundary between square-leg and mid-wicket five times by Bradman,[2][45] who was eventually dismissed by Peter Smith for 187.

[10] His bowling was slowly being surpassed by Smith, who consistently recorded better returns, and thus Vigar "rarely got the most helpful end.

[10] Vigar's season opened with a fixture against the Marylebone Cricket Club on 30 April, where he took one wicket and scored three and one.

[59] For the next two first-class matches he was not called upon to bowl at all,[12] though against Somerset on 18 June he scored his second century of the season, 119 while batting at number three, to take Essex to a ten-wicket victory.

[63] On 10 August, Essex met a touring New Zealand side, Vigar found success: taking 2/49 and 3/41, as well as scoring 89 and 46 in a drawn match.

[76] Vigar then top-scored in an innings of 60 as Essex were dismissed for 158 by Somerset on 28 June,[77] and another half-century of 56 against the same opposition on 5 July took him past 6,000 first-class runs.

[78] On 23 August, following a string of low scores and wicketless overs,[12] Vigar and his county faced a touring West Indies side at home.

[81] Essex began the 1951 season with a match against Cambridge University where Vigar scored a duck and did not bowl.

[84] His season-best 58 came on 30 June against Leicestershire, taking him past 6,500 first-class runs,[85] and this was followed two matches later by a knock of 52* against Lancashire on 7 July.

Along with Trevor Bailey, Sonny Avery and Bill Morris, Vigar assisted Harold Faragher in its development.

[92] He took 4/90 and 4/69 against Surrey on 21 May;[93] took one wicket during a match against a touring Indian side;[94] and scored 63* and took 2/40 against Leicestershire on 7 June – passing 7,000 first-class runs in the process.

[106] Against the touring Australian side in the lead up to the 1953 Ashes series, the tourists took victory by an innings and 212 runs, as Essex were routed for 129 and 136 in the face of the oppositions' 477/7 declared.

[123] On 28 August, Vigar played his final first-class match against Sussex at the County Ground, Hove.