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| Books LLC : People From Harrogate: Herbert Sutcliffe, Andy Gray, Andy O'brien, Maurice Leyland, Mark Umbers, David Yelland, Jon Champion, Edward Chapman | |
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People From Harrogate: Herbert Sutcliffe, Andy Gray, Andy O'brien, Maurice Leyland, Mark Umbers, David Yelland, Jon Champion, Edward Chapman |
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English |
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Paperback |
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154 |
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2010-09-15 |
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1155241614 |
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Books LLC |
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0.52 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.35 inches |
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Chapters: Herbert Sutcliffe, Andy Gray, Andy O'brien, Maurice Leyland, Mark Umbers, David Yelland, Jon Champion, Edward Chapman, Cedric Boyns, Stuart Colman, Matt Baker, Gavin Hamilton, Penny Broadhurst, Simon Easterby, John Scales, Stuart Gray, Adam Pearson, Robert Grant, Donald Simpson Bell, Tony Ingham, Mike Edwards, Arthur Wragg, Jim Carter, George Wyndham Kennion, A. A. Thomson, Graham Whitehead, Debbie Flood, Michael J. H. Walsh, Christian Forshaw, Sean Mcdaid, Frederick Butterfield, Hugo Speer, the Yorkshire Musical Saw Player, Archie Miles, Anne Curwen, Ian Houseman, Charles Hull, Victor Craven, Dewey Bunnell, John Tanner, Ian Blackstone, Stuart Milburn, Peter Johnson, Tom Burgess, Peter Birch, Brad Tinnion. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 152. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Herbert Sutcliffe (born 24 November 1894 at Summerbridge, Harrogate, Yorkshire; died 22 January 1978 at Cross Hills, Yorkshire) was an English cricketer who is universally regarded as one of the greatest-ever opening batsmen. His Test batting average of 60.73 is the fourth highest of any player with a completed career, behind only Don Bradman, Graeme Pollock and George Headley. Uniquely, Sutcliffe's average never dropped below 60 throughout his entire Test career Javed Miandad is the only other man whose average never dropped below 50 in a career of at least 20 innings. Sutcliffe's first-class career batting average of 51.95 (according to Wisden, though Cricinfo claim 52.02) is bettered among batsmen who finished their careers with over 50,000 runs only by Hammond. In his prime from 1928 to 1932 Sutcliffe's feats compared with Bradman's in numerical terms. He reached 1,000 Test runs in just 12 innings, one fewer than Bradman, his strokes focused on professional leg-side play with glances, hooks and ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1761928
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