Arthur Fagg: The only batsman to score double hundred in each innings of a First-Class match

Fagg has found a place in cricket history. As age 23, he scored double hundreds in each innings of a First-Class game – the only batsman in First-Class history to achieve the feat.

Arthur Fagg played between 1932 and 1957 and scored 27, 291 runs with 58 Test hundreds. The Kent batsman played five Tests for England, but had very little success, scoring just 150 runs from eight innings with a highest of 39.

Fagg, however, has found a place in cricket history. As age 23, he scored double hundreds in each innings of a First-Class game – the only batsman in First-Class history to achieve the feat. Playing for Kent against Essex at Colchester in 1938, Fagg scored 244 – including a hundred before lunch — and 202 not out —  the second double hundred coming in just 170 minutes.

He later made a mark as one of the most respected umpires game in the game, between 1967 to 1976. He officiated in 18 Tests and seven One-Day Internationals before bowing out due to health reasons. Two years later, he died at Tunbridge Wells — the place made famous in cricket history by Kapil Dev’s epic 174 not out in the 1983 World Cup — at age 62.