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THE GREATEST XI No.14 SURREY

Alan Butcher, the former Surrey batter and coach, selects his county’s all-star line-up

1. JACK HOBBS
598 matches (in first-class cricket for Surrey – 1905-34), 43,554 runs at 49.71, 144 hundreds, 186 fifties; 86 wickets at 22.65, 3 fivewicket hauls
The only surprise here is that Sir Jack Hobbs doesn’t take up two places in the batting line-up. The career stats are truly the stuff of legend: 61,760 first-class runs and 199 hundreds (100 of them after his 40th birthday) are all you need to know.
‘The Master’ was included in Wisden’s Five Cri...

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