[1] A left-arm spin bowler, he played three matches for Eastern Province in the 1949–50 season, taking nine wickets, including 3 for 97 when the Australians scored 418 on the opening day of their tour match.
[2] In the 1951–52, now playing for Orange Free State, he took 40 wickets at an average of 16.65[3] and made 204 runs at 25.50.
[6] However, the more experienced Percy Mansell of Rhodesia, who made 571 runs at 43.92 and took 52 wickets at 17.63 and was also an experts slips fieldsman, was chosen ahead of Liddle as the second spin bowler for the tour to Australia and New Zealand in 1952–53.
He was their most successful bowler in their victory in the Currie Cup that season, taking 31 wickets in six matches at an average of 18.83.
[10] After a few matches in 1956–57 he succumbed to illness, and died in 1959 aged 28.