| Country: | Ireland |
| Fullname: | Basil Jordain Ward |
| Birth Date: | 6 August 1889 |
| Birth Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
| Death Place: | Wandsworth Common, London, England |
| Batting: | Left-handed |
| Bowling: | Left-arm fast-medium |
| Club1: | Ireland |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 4 |
| Runs1: | 56 |
| Bat Avg1: | 11.20 |
| 100S/50S1: | –/– |
| Top Score1: | 17 |
| Deliveries1: | 751 |
| Wickets1: | 13 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 21.00 |
| Fivefor1: | – |
| Tenfor1: | – |
| Best Bowling1: | 4/66 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 3/– |
| Date: | 5 November |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ireland/content/player/24535.html Cricinfo |
Basil Jordain Ward (6 August 1889 - 29 March 1972) was an Irish first-class cricketer.
Ward was born at Dublin in August 1889, where he was educated at Mountjoy School.[1] After finishing his schooling, he went up to Trinity College, Dublin in 1908, where he played club cricket for Dublin University.[1] He did not appear regularly for the university until 1912, but did represent Leinster alongside.[1] Ward made his debut in first-class cricket for Ireland against Scotland at Dublin in 1912.[2] He played in the same fixture in 1913 at Edinburgh, and in 1914 at Dublin.[2] Ward served in the British Army during World War I, enlisting in August 1915 as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. Surviving the war, he returned to playing club cricket for Dublin University.[1] He made a final first-class appearance for Ireland against Scotland at Edinburgh in 1920,[2] a year in which he also played minor matches against Cambridge University and Derbyshire at College Park, Dublin.[3] Ward played in a total of four first-class matches, scoring 56 runs with a highest score of 17.[4] However, it is a fast-medium bowler that Ward is better remembered, where alongside an impressive club record,[1] he also took 13 first-class wickets at an average of 21.00, with best innings figures of 4 for 66.[5] A schoolteacher by profession, he took up a teaching position in London soon after his final appearance for Ireland.[1] He died at Wandsworth Common in London in March 1972.[1]