Early Career
Tordoff played a couple of matches for Somerset in 1950 without making much impact, but in his first game of 1951, his third in all cricket, he hit an unbeaten 87 against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge. Later in the season he hit 55 against Surrey in a rain-ruined match at Taunton.
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