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Firsts, Lasts & Onlys of Cricket: Presenting the most amazing cricket facts from the last 500 years

Paul Donnelley

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Prose: non-fiction, Encyclopaedias & reference works, Sports & outdoor recreation, Cricket

Compiled by Sunday Times Best-selling Author and renowned master of trivia Paul Donnelley. The perfect gift for fathers at Christmas

200 brilliant and bizarre curiosities highlighting the First, Last and Onlys that have occurred during the illustrious history of this sport - from the determined cricketers fined for playing on the Sabbath to the only virtuoso to score a century and take all ten wickets in a single innings. This absorbing collection of stories is guaranteed to enthral and includes some of the greatest gentleman to have graced the field of play, such as: The first player to bat on all 5 days of a test match. The last incidence of under-armed bowling in an international match. The only father and son to score centuries in the same First Class innings.Delight in a myriad of facts that you never knew about this glorious game.

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Praise for Firsts, Lasts & Onlys of Cricket: Presenting the most amazing cricket facts from the last 500 years

  • "Paul has an unerring eye for the fascinating. He is one of the world's leading oddity hunters" - Jeremy Beadle.

  • "Donnelley is the master of reference books" - Mitchell Symons.

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