Later Cricket Career
After 1955, Tordoff's cricket was entirely for the Combined Services first-class side, for whom he played a few matches in most seasons up to 1962. In 1959, he was captain of the Services team when Jack Bannister took all 10 wickets in an innings for 41 runs for Warwickshire at the Mitchells and Butlers ground in Birmingham. And in 1961 he scored 131, his fifth and final first-class century, in the match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge. After his last first-class appearance in 1962, he played Minor Counties cricket for Berkshire. A former pupil of Normanton Grammar School, he captained the Royal Navy side which played London University in 1969. The University side was captained by John Law, a former student of the same school.
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