A tall right-arm fast bowler, Nagel played one match for Victoria in 1927–28, then played regularly between 1930–31 and 1933–34. He took 19 wickets at 25.05 in the 1931–32 season,[1] including 6 for 35 against South Australia.[2]
He was selected for an Australian XI that played the MCC in Melbourne in November 1932, and took 8 for 32 in the second innings to dismiss the MCC for 60.[3] He played in the First Test that followed shortly afterwards, and took two wickets,[4] but was left out of the Second Test.
Lisle played 139 First XI Victorian district cricket matches for Melbourne between 1927 and 1947, taking 438 wickets at 14.74.[5] He took 86 wickets in the 1939-40 season, which as of 2021 stands as the most by a bowler in a district cricket season.[6]
