[1] Cricket writer Colin Bateman noted: "a great servant of Sussex, Jim Langridge played only one Test after the War in a sporadic England career.
As a steady left-handed batsman and patient left-arm spinner, his Test opportunities were greatly limited by the presence of Yorkshire's Hedley Verity".
[1] Born in Newick, Sussex, Langridge was an all-rounder who played first-class cricket for almost thirty years.
[3] He was then picked for the 1933–34 Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) tour to India under Douglas Jardine, where he scored 70 in the Test at Calcutta and took five wickets for 63 runs at Madras.
The presence in the England team of left-arm spinner Hedley Verity undoubtedly restricted Langridge's Test opportunities.
[1] After Verity's death in the War, Langridge was picked at the age of 40 for the MCC tour of Australia in 1946–47 under Wally Hammond, and was chosen for the Third Test at Melbourne, but had to withdraw after injuring his groin in practice.