#wally hammond

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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

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The Doodlebug at Lord's — RAF v Army, 29 July 1944

Army XI v Royal Air Force XI

1944-07-29

On 29 July 1944, before more than 3,000 spectators at Lord's, an Army XI played the Royal Air Force in a wartime charity match featuring Wally Hammond. About an hour into play, a German V-1 'doodlebug' flying bomb cut its motor directly overhead. Players and crowd flattened themselves on the turf; the bomb dived to earth roughly 200 yards short of the ground. Bob Wyatt picked himself up, completed his interrupted run-up, and Jack Robertson lofted the very next ball into the Grand Stand for six. Plum Warner later said the moment summarised what cricket meant to wartime London.

#lords#wwii#doodlebug

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Hammond's 240 at Lord's — Captain's Innings vs Australia, 1938

England v Australia

1938-06-26

Captaining England in his first Ashes home Test in charge, Wally Hammond made 240 at Lord's in June 1938 — at the time the highest score by an England captain against Australia and an innings widely rated alongside his 336* at Auckland and his 251 at Sydney as the finest of his career.

#wally-hammond#ashes#1938

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Hammond Turns Amateur — November 1937

England / Gloucestershire

1937-11-15

In November 1937 Wally Hammond — the leading professional batsman of his era — was accepted by MCC as an amateur, opening the door to the England captaincy he received six months later for the 1938 Ashes. The change crystallised inter-war debates about the amateur-professional divide and the unwritten rule that England's captain be amateur.

#wally-hammond#1937#amateur-professional

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Wally Hammond's 336* at Auckland — World Test Record, 1933

New Zealand v England

1933-04-01

On April Fool's Day 1933, Wally Hammond walked in at 56 for 1 at Eden Park and made 336 not out from the next 492 runs of England's innings. The score broke Bradman's 334 as the highest in Test cricket, took 318 minutes, and included 10 sixes — then a Test record. He still finished the two-match series with an average of 563. The match was drawn after only two days of play.

#wally-hammond#england#new-zealand

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Wally Hammond's 905 Runs — 1928-29 Ashes Record

Australia v England

1929-03-08

In the 1928-29 Ashes Wally Hammond scored 905 runs in five Tests at an average of 113.12 — at the time, and for the next 60 years, the most by any batsman in any Test series. England won the series 4-1 under Percy Chapman.

#wally-hammond#ashes#1928-29

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South Africa in England 1929 — Cameron's Tourists Lose 2-0

England v South Africa

1929-08-19

Nummy Deane's South Africans played five Tests in England in the long summer of 1929, losing the series 0-2 with three drawn but providing Hammond, Sutcliffe and Woolley with their first sustained run of home Test runs since 1926.

#south-africa#england#1929

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Chapman's Ashes — England Win 4-1 in Australia, 1928-29

Australia v England

1929-03-08

Percy Chapman's England side, led by Hammond's record 905 runs and supported by the new-ball pair of Larwood and George Geary, won the 1928-29 Ashes 4-1 — the first English Ashes win in Australia for 17 years and the series in which a 20-year-old Don Bradman made his Test debut.

#percy-chapman#ashes#1928-29

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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.

#wally-hammond#gloucestershire#england