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Tom Richardson's Old Trafford Heroism — 13 for 244 in a Lost Test, 1896

England v Australia

1896-07-16

In the same Old Trafford Test that produced Ranjitsinhji's debut 154*, England's fast bowler Tom Richardson took 7 for 168 and 6 for 76 — match figures of 13 for 244 from 110 overs of fast bowling. He bowled unchanged for three hours on the final afternoon as Australia scrabbled to 125 for 7 chasing 125 to win. Australia held on by three wickets. Richardson's spell is one of the great lost-cause performances in Test history.

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Tom Richardson's 290 Wickets — The Greatest Fast-Bowling Season in History, 1895

Surrey, England

1895-09-01

In the summer of 1895 — the same season as W.G. Grace's 'Indian Summer' — Surrey's Tom Richardson took 290 first-class wickets at 14.37, the largest haul ever recorded by a fast bowler in a single English season. Of those 290 wickets, 237 came in county matches and 176 of all dismissals were bowled. Across the four consecutive seasons 1894-97 he took 1,005 first-class wickets, a workload no fast bowler before or since has matched.

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