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Firsts, Lasts & Onlys of Cricket

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4th October 2010

Price: £9.99

Selected:  ebook / ISBN-13: 9780600622536

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200 brilliant and bizarre curiosities highlighting the First, Last and Onlys that have occurred during the illustrious history of this sport – from the determined cricketers fined for playing on the Sabbath to the only virtuoso to score a century and take all ten wickets in a single innings. This absorbing collection of stories is guaranteed to enthral and includes some of the greatest gentleman to have graced the field of play, such as: The first player to bat on all 5 days of a test match. The last incidence of under-armed bowling in an international match. The only father and son to score centuries in the same First Class innings.Delight in a myriad of facts that you never knew about this glorious game.

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"Donnelley is the master of reference books" - Mitchell Symons.
"Paul has an unerring eye for the fascinating. He is one of the world's leading oddity hunters" - Jeremy Beadle.