#1947

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Vinoo Mankad's All-Round Tour of Australia — 1947-48

India v Australia

1948-02-06

Vinoo Mankad's first overseas tour was a masterclass of all-round cricket. On the 1947-48 tour of Australia he scored 583 Test runs at 44.84 (centuries in the third and fifth Tests at Melbourne, 116 and 111), took 17 Test wickets with his slow left-arm, ran out Bill Brown twice for backing up too far at the non-striker's end — coining the now-famous term 'Mankading' — and finished with over 1,400 first-class runs and 50 wickets across the trip.

#vinoo-mankad#india#1947

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Compton's 3,816 Runs and 18 Hundreds — The 1947 Record Summer

Middlesex / England — Denis Compton

1947-09-13

In the dry, sunny English summer of 1947, Denis Compton scored 3,816 first-class runs at 90.85 with 18 centuries — both records that have stood for nearly 80 years and, with the modern fixture list, are widely considered unbreakable. His Middlesex partner Bill Edrich made 3,539 runs with 12 hundreds in the same summer, the second-highest of all time. Their batting carried Middlesex to the County Championship and lifted England to a 3-0 Test series win over South Africa. Compton was the Brylcreem Boy who turned austerity Britain back towards joy.

#denis-compton#1947#middlesex

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Bradman's 100th First-Class Hundred — SCG, 15 November 1947

An Australian XI v India

1947-11-15

On 15 November 1947 at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Don Bradman became the first Australian — and the first non-Englishman — to make 100 first-class centuries. He reached the milestone with a single off the off-spin of Gogumal Kishenchand, a player Lala Amarnath had brought on for that very over despite Kishenchand having bowled barely an over all tour. Bradman went on to 172 in 177 minutes; he would finish his first-class career with 117 hundreds, a figure no Australian has approached since.

#bradman#100-hundreds#scg

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Compton & Edrich Add 370 at Lord's — June 1947

England v South Africa

1947-06-23

On 23 June 1947 at Lord's, Denis Compton (208) and Bill Edrich (189) added 370 for the third wicket against South Africa, in a Test that crowned the most adored summer English cricket has known. Their partnership remains the highest for any wicket in a Lord's Test, and the highest for England's third wicket in any Test. Of 47 boundaries shared, 46 were fours; their batting in the warm post-war sunshine was, in Wisden's phrase, 'the talk of London'.

#compton#edrich#lords

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Lala Amarnath Leads Independent India to Australia — 1947-48

India v Australia

1947-11-28

Lala Amarnath became Independent India's first Test captain when he led the tour party to Australia in November 1947, only weeks after Partition. Vijay Merchant's withdrawal had thrown the captaincy open; Amarnath was confirmed by the new Indian Cricket Board ahead of departure. India lost the series 0-4, but Amarnath's personal contributions — 228 not out v Victoria and 172 not out v Queensland — and his courteous handling of Bradman's century moment at Sydney made him a popular figure on tour.

#lala-amarnath#india#captain

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Wally Hammond's Last Test — Sydney, March 1947

Australia v England

1947-02-28

Wally Hammond, England captain on the 1946-47 Ashes tour, was struck down by fibrositis at Adelaide and could not take the field for the fifth Test at Sydney from 28 February 1947. Norman Yardley led England in his place. Hammond never played another Test. The series — Bradman's first post-war — ended 3-0 to Australia, and the greatest English batsman of the inter-war years left Test cricket without a farewell innings, soon emigrating to South Africa.

#wally-hammond#retirement#sydney