#george tarrant

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Johnny Mullagh — The Aboriginal Tour's Champion All-Rounder, 1868

Aboriginal Australian XI vs English club and county sides

1868-09-01

Johnny Mullagh — born Unaarrimin around 1841 on Mullagh station near Harrow, Victoria — was the outstanding all-rounder of the 1868 Aboriginal tour of England. In 47 matches he scored 1,698 runs at around 23 and took 245 wickets at 10, bowling round-arm in a free, wristy style and frequently keeping wicket between deliveries. The English fast bowler George Tarrant, after bowling at Mullagh in a tour interval, declared he had never bowled to a better batsman.

#johnny-mullagh#unaarrimin#aboriginal-tour-1868

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Cambridgeshire as a First-Class County — The Tarrant-Hayward-Carpenter Era, 1864-1871

Cambridgeshire vs other first-class counties

1865-08-01

For a brief eight-year period from 1864 to 1871, Cambridgeshire was a first-class county with three of the best players in England — the batsmen Tom Hayward (the elder) and Robert Carpenter, and the fast bowler George Tarrant. In 1865, the year of W.G. Grace's first-class debut, Cambridgeshire fielded what some historians consider the strongest single county side of the decade. By 1872 financial pressures and the loss of its three stars had reduced the county to second-class status, where it has remained ever since.

#cambridgeshire#tom-hayward-elder#robert-carpenter