 In 1947 White was made Captain of Worcestershire.This proved to be a good choice – his obituary in "Wisden" called him "a popular and enterprising leader" – and he again passed a thousand runs for the season, albeit from 54 innings, the most he was ever to play in a single summer.From 1948 onwards his attentions were increasingly taken up by his off-field responsibilities as a mushroom farmer and after a final season for Worcestershire in 1949 (a successful year in which they came third in the County Championship), he retired from first-class cricket.