Pradip Dhole

Author: Pradip Dhole

Pradip Dhole is a retired medical practitioner with a life-long interest in cricket history and statistics.

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Rev. AP Wickham: Kept wickets for both sides in a First-Class match
Pradip DholeJuly 25, 2018 2:38 PM IST
Rev. AP Wickham also held the County Championship record for the biggest innings to have kept wickets too without conceding a bye.
Louis Hall: The man who carried bat for Yorkshire 14 times
Pradip DholeJuly 23, 2018 11:14 AM IST
Hall carried his bat for Yorkshire 14 times. Nobody else has done this more than 8 times.
What made Maurice Tate switch from spin to seam
Pradip DholeJuly 9, 2018 5:04 PM IST
“Maurice, tired and perhaps annoyed at the veteran batsman’s contemptuous treatment of those slow off-breaks, suddenly increased his pace and swung his body for all
Thomas Dale: A cricketer arrested for playing under an alias
Pradip DholeJune 29, 2018 10:13 PM IST
Thomas Dale changed his name to Thomas Jordan. Things did not go too well when they found out.
'The Vagabond' who kickstarted England-Australia cricket tours
Pradip DholeJune 25, 2018 7:20 PM IST
John Stanley James changed his name to Dr Stanley James, then to Julian Thomas, and wrote under the pseudonym of The Vagabond.
The third of the Don Bradman-Archie Jackson-Alec Marks triumvirate at NSW
Pradip DholeJune 18, 2018 2:30 PM IST
Alec Marks formed a trinity with Don Bradman and Archie Jackson.
Moss: Only bowler to take all 10 wickets in an innings on FC debut
Pradip DholeMay 30, 2018 7:47 PM IST
Albert Moss remains the only one to take all 10 in an innings on First-Class debut. ‘Fitz’ Hinds would later take 10 as well, but
Ted Peate: The ‘Clown Cricketer’ who became a Yorkshire legend
Pradip DholeMay 20, 2018 6:57 PM IST
Ted Peate, one of Yorkshire’s greatest, is unfairly remembered as the man whose dismissal gave birth to the Ashes legend.
Tufnell: ‘Specialist’ substitute stumper
Pradip DholeMay 14, 2018 7:22 PM IST
Neville Tufnell was the first to stump a batsman as a substitute wicketkeeper in Test cricket. At First-Class level he was responsible for the third,
Robert Poore: A sporting Hussar
Pradip DholeMay 7, 2018 4:57 PM IST
Robert Poore retired as Brigadier-General from the British Army. He played Test cricket for South Africa, for the Europeans in India, and scored the first
Jack Sharp: The man who scored the 100th Test hundred
Pradip DholeApril 27, 2018 4:45 PM IST
Jack Sharp played 3 Tests for England, in which he scored the 100th Test hundred. He also played football twice for England, and had distinguished
‘Tuppy’ Owen-Smith: Cricket for South Africa, rugby for England
Pradip DholeApril 26, 2018 4:35 PM IST
Tuppy Owen-Smith played 5 Tests for South Africa, led England at rugby, and was a practising doctor.
Victor Trumper’s iconic 335: A day of 22 fives and a smashed boot factory window
Pradip DholeApril 16, 2018 4:40 PM IST
Victor Trumper took only three hours for his monumental 335 that day — in an era when only five runs were awarded for clearing the
Alexander Downes: First to do a four-in-four in New Zealand
Pradip DholeApril 13, 2018 2:56 PM IST
Alexander Downes’s record stood for 117 years till Neil Wagner emulated him, in 2010-11.
Tom Horan: First Irish Test cricketer, pioneer cricket writer, owner of an imposing moustache
Pradip DholeApril 8, 2018 12:42 PM IST
Tom Horan played 16 Tests, led Australia twice, scored over a thousand runs against NSW alone, was a pioneer cricket writer, and boasted one of

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