biography
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Hobbs, Jack
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popular name of Sir John Berry Hobbs
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1882–1963)
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| biography:
| Cricketer, born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, EC England, UK. He played in county cricket for Cambridgeshire (1904) and Surrey (1905–34), and for England (1908–30), when he and Herbert Sutcliffe (1894–1978) established themselves as an unrivalled pair of opening batsmen. He made 5410 runs in 61 Test matches (average 56·94), and a record number of 197 centuries and 61 237 runs in first-class cricket. He was the first English cricketer to be knighted, in 1953. |
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