Pradip Dhole Pradip Dhole is a retired medical practitioner with a life-long interest in cricket history and statistics.
EHD Sewell’s first-class career spanned 1892-93 to 1922, and comprised 87 matches, producing 3430 runs at 24.50.
An excellent all-round cricketer, Conrad Powell Johnstone led the Madras Cricket Club, Europeans and Madras in the Ranji Trophy.
Usborne played only 5 matches, scoring 109 runs at 13.62 and effecting 7 dismissals.
Sir Arbuthnot, who passed with distinctions in Classics and Telugu, was also Director of Public Institution and helped found Madras University, among other things.
Lindsay played for Oxford and Middlesex before coming to India, where he also played in the Pentangular.
Before coming to India, Richmond had played for Jamaica twice.
John Trask also played for Somerset, and was a surgeon.
Meyer played for Cambridge, and Somerset, and led Western India, but is remembered mostly as founder of Millfield School.
Abell, a wicketkeeper in the match, scored the double hundred for Northern India against Army in 1934-35.
William Moule's only Test was also the first one played on English soil.
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 he was worth, to make the ball come faster off the pitch.” — Wally Hammond.
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 in a 12-a-side match.
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, fourth, and fifth such instances.
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 triple-hundred for Hampshire.
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