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Bill Bowes: The bespectacled, loosely-built man who became a key England bowler – Almanack
"Bowes plays in glasses but that apparently is little or no handicap to him"
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"Bowes plays in glasses but that apparently is little or no handicap to him"
"He played in 28 Tests and would have played in many more had he not been a contemporary of Lock"
"He instilled nearly as much fear into English bowlers as did his more famous colleague"
"He took 1,759 wickets, the second highest in the county’s history"
"A stump went catapulting head high before dropping at the feet of the wicketkeeper 12 yards back"
Hammond scored 50,551 first-class runs – 7,249 of them in Tests
“Very few have ever got more out of a lifetime”
"At the crease he stood impassively, cap at a rakish angle, knees slightly bent, chewing compulsively"
“He showed, without words or facial hair, how cricket could make you happy”
"Concentration, discipline, commitment and athleticism were the abiding virtues of his game"