Priestley made a single Minor Counties Championship appearance for Buckinghamshire in 1907 against the Worcestershire Second XI. He later made his only first-class appearance for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Cambridge University in 1911. In the MCC first-innings he was dismissed for 31 by Henry Grierson. In their second-innings, he scored 2 runs before being dismissed by the same bowler. Hardy took a single wicket in the Cambridge University first-innings, that of university captain John Frederick Ireland for the cost of 16 runs from a single over.
