 He was then out of first-class cricket for a while before moving to Worcestershire in 1939, and although his record was mediocre (386 runs at 13.78, with a top score of only 47) he was kept on by the county when cricket resumed after World War II, enjoying his most successful season in 1946 with 1,179 first-class runs and a career-best 95 against the Combined Services.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.