wickets in the match for 88 runs, including a first-innings return of five for 33 which was at that stage his best in first-class cricket. Wisden's report that Cranfield was "flighting and spinning the ball from the off" suggests that he was bowling off spin at this stage. Postwar cricket When first-class cricket resumed after the Second World War in the 1946 season, Sinfield had retired and Goddard was 45 years old. But though that gave Cranfield a more reliable place in the Gloucestershire side, he did not do much more bowling than before, as Sam Cook emerged as a slow left-arm spin bowler to partner Goddard. In the match against Cambridge University at Gloucester, however, Cranfield took the bowling honours, with eight for 45 from his off breaks in the first Cambridge innings and five for 9 as the university was dismissed for just 34 in the second innings; Cranfield's match figures were 13 wickets for 54 runs and both the first innings and the match figures were the best of his career. The other seven Cambridge wickets in the match were taken by Cook at a cost of 54 runs also. Those 13 wickets took him to a season total of 47 wickets at the for-him low average of 20.44. The 1947 season, when Gloucestershire chased Middlesex hard for the County Championship, was Cranfield best as a batsman by some distance: he made three scores of more than 50 to add to his solitary effort in 1935. Against Cambridge University, he made 67 and helped Jack Crapp put on 172 for the eighth wicket. He made 59 against Sussex. And then in the last game of the season, against Essex at Bristol, he scored 90, the top score of a high-scoring match. In the season as whole, Cranfield scored 660 runs at an average of 26.48, though in a season in which Goddard took more than 200 wickets, he took only 29 and bowled only just over 300 overs. The following season, 1948, was less successful and Cranfield's highest score was just 37; he did, however, take 41 wickets at a respectable average of 29.24 with one five-wicket haul, and he played in 27 matches duringt the season, the most in any single season of first-class cricket. In 1949, though, he lost his place in the side and he retired at the end of the season. From 1950