County Regular
From 1927, Ingle played regularly for Somerset for 11 seasons, never appearing in less than 21 games a year. He was allowed out of the family firm legal duties by his father, returning to the law for the winters. The first full season was mediocre, but in the first match of the 1928 season, against Middlesex at Taunton, he hit 117 and 100 not out, only the third player, after Peter Randall Johnson and John Daniell, to achieve the feat for Somerset. The rest of the season did not live up to this start, but Ingle still finished the season by passing 1,000 runs for the first time and having an average for his 1,027 runs of 27.75, the first time he had passed 20 for a complete season.
The following three seasons saw no progression. Ingle's batting averages reverted to below 20 in each of them, and he did not approach 1,000 runs for the season. There was just one more century in these years: 108 against Cambridge University at Bath in 1929.
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