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CMS Icons #5

Postby The Professor » Fri May 10, 2019 7:22 pm

Bit of a era spanning fivefer here.

But who do you rate?
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Postby Durhamfootman » Fri May 10, 2019 9:30 pm

anyone who refuses to be given out LBW because "they came to see me bat, not you umpire" should be in the team

I believe he once scored a hundred in a match where 22 fielders were allowed

He once scored 839 runs in one week in 1876, with innings of 344 for MCC, 177 and then 318 not out for Gloucestershire.

rumour has it he scored 54,000 FC runs and took 2,800 FC wickets
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Postby Arthur Crabtree » Sat May 11, 2019 1:58 am

As an icon, got to be Grace.
I always say that everybody's right.
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Postby GGAS » Sat May 11, 2019 2:41 pm

Has to be Grace, even if the only reason is that my local Wetherspoons where I used to live used to be named after him
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Postby Durhamfootman » Sat May 11, 2019 10:28 pm

Is the doctor in?

the great man in action

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Re: CMS Icons #5

Postby The Professor » Sat May 25, 2019 8:51 pm

Grace takes the most emphatic victory we have seen and is the first Englishman on out list.

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