Rev. AP Wickham also held the County Championship record for the biggest innings to have kept wickets too without conceding a bye.
Hall carried his bat for Yorkshire 14 times. Nobody else has done this more than 8 times.
“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 changed his name to Thomas Jordan. Things did not go too well when they found out.
John Stanley James changed his name to Dr Stanley James, then to Julian Thomas, and wrote under the pseudonym of The Vagabond.
Alec Marks formed a trinity with Don Bradman and Archie Jackson.
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, one of Yorkshire’s greatest, is unfairly remembered as the man whose dismissal gave birth to the Ashes legend.
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 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 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 played 5 Tests for South Africa, led England at rugby, and was a practising doctor.
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’s record stood for 117 years till Neil Wagner emulated him, in 2010-11.
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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