William Eric Hollies was not an all-time-great England cricketer. He played for Warwickshire for almost twenty five years, played about 500 first-class matches for his team. But still, he earned the English cap for only thirteen times in his career. In such a long career, he has not taken a hat-trick even once. But still, his records are astonishing.. getting 2300+ wickets in his first-class career, and taking all ten wickets in a single innings without the help of even a single fielder, proves that he is a crafty master of his art. But the irony is that, he is simply not known for any of these mind-boggling records. Instead, he is remembered for what happened in the image given here. Yeah, he is the greatest spoiler in the history of the game who bowled the legendary Don for a duck in his last innings and spoiled His average to elude the magical mark of 100!
Another Funda , is actually he could have made up for those runs if he was made to bat in the second innnings .But that didn't take place due to poor batting of England (They had to undergo an innings defeat)... :-(
ReplyDeleteAnd runs he needed to score to complete his carreer with an average over 100 is just 4.:-)
I guess even Eric Hollies wouldn't have slept that night!! :)
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