Vigar reached 100 first-class wickets in the next match with 2/73 against Glamorgan on 16 July, and scored 125 against Hampshire on 23 July. A wicket against Worcestershire on 2 August gave him 50 for the season, and a score of 114 came in the next match against Derbyshire. This five-hour knock, along with Peter Smith's 163, compiled a 218-last-wicket partnership which remains an Essex record. Vigar then took 4/75 and scored 84 against Yorkshire on 27 August, and then ended his season in a combined-team match of Surrey and Kent versus Middlesex and Essex on 6 September – where he scored 145 and 53, and took five wickets in the match. 145 would remain his career best with the bat.
