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Colin Blythe Killed at Passchendaele — Kent and England Spinner, November 1917

England

1917-11-08

Colin Blythe, the slow left-arm spinner who had taken 100 Test wickets for England and been the heart of Kent's championship sides, was killed by a German shell while laying railway track behind the lines near Ypres on 8 November 1917. He was 38.

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⭐Serious

Colin Blythe — 15 for 99 at Headingley v South Africa, 1907

England, South Africa

1907-07-30

On a rain-affected pitch at Headingley, the Kent left-arm spinner Colin Blythe took 8 for 59 and 7 for 40 — match figures of 15 for 99 — to bowl England to a 53-run win over South Africa in the second Test of 1907. It was Blythe's only Test five-wicket haul in a Test won by England, and the high point of his Test career.

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