#1000 runs may

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Wally Hammond's 1927 — 1,000 Runs by End of May

Gloucestershire and MCC

1927-05-31

By 31 May 1927 the 23-year-old Wally Hammond had scored 1,042 first-class runs for the season, the first batsman to make 1,000 by the end of May since W.G. Grace in 1895. The achievement announced the post-Hobbs generation and made Hammond a Test certainty for the rest of the decade.

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Tom Hayward — 1,000 Runs in May 1900 and 3,518 in 1906

Surrey, England

1906-09-01

Tom Hayward of Surrey was the second man (after W.G. Grace in 1895) to score 1,000 runs before the end of May, achieving the feat in 1900. In 1906 he set a new English first-class record aggregate of 3,518 runs in a season — a figure not surpassed until Compton and Edrich in 1947.

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