Just copied this - sums up the character of Wardy...
David Ward
(1985-1996)
David Ward was a carpenter from Croydon and didn't play his first match for Surrey until he was 24. But for a dozen or so years he was the relaxed, grinning face of a desperately underachieving county, a side studded with stars and fatally short on consistency. On poor days he looked a heavy-footed plodder; on good ones, with his heavy-duty bat offering no mercy, he was well-nigh unstoppable. He scored a remarkable 2,072 first-class runs in 1990, including seven hundreds; he kept wicket with ebullience whenever he was needed, and patrolled the boundary, chatting happily to the spectators, when he wasn't. One May morning in 1994 Alec Stewart declared with Wardy 294 not out; the crowd was livid, the genial pro grinned his unmistakable horsey grin and got on with the job. No one could have guessed it at the time, but he would never score another first-class century.