No.11 NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
Allan Lamb picks a team of his county’s outstanding players
1. DENNIS BROOKES (C)
492 matches (in first-class cricket for Northants – 1934-59), 28,980 runs at 36.13, 67 hundreds, 141 fifties
No one has played more first-class matches, scored more runs or made more centuries for Northamptonshire than Dennis Brookes. By all accounts he was a very stylish batter and an excellent player of spin, who was unlucky to play just one Test match for England – at Bridgetown in 1948, when a broken finger ended his tour early.
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