Wal Walmsley

A batsman who could bat at any position in the order and a leg-break and googly bowler, Wal Walmsley made his first-class debut for New South Wales against Queensland in a friendly match in 1945–46.

[1] He played in Tasmania's three first-class games that followed shortly afterwards, scoring 180 not out and taking three wickets against the Indian touring team at Launceston.

[5] His batting by this stage was generally less effective than his bowling (in 28 matches for Queensland he scored 577 runs at 21.37[6] and took 102 wickets at 30.12[7]) but he scored 106 not out batting at number 10 against New South Wales in 1957–58, sharing a ninth-wicket partnership of 120 with Ray Reynolds and an unbroken tenth-wicket partnership of 105 with John Freeman.

[9] Before the season ended, he moved to New Zealand to take up a position teaching at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints college in Hamilton,[10][11] playing his first first-class match in New Zealand, for a combined Northern Districts and Central Districts team against the touring MCC, almost immediately.

Walmsley played three matches for Northern Districts in 1959–60 at the age of 43, taking 12 wickets at 26.58,[12] then retired.