Herbert Sutcliffe
Herbert Sutcliffe, one of the best English Test Batsman of them all and the least known, too. Herbert Sutcliffe was one of the great cricketers and he brought to cricket as to all his undertakings which brought him immense succes . His technical talent and skill level was matched by none as shown by his achievements, which were on a high plane. Sutcliffe played 20 years of cricket from 1919 to 1939. Herbert Sutcliffe scored more than 50,000 runs and averaged 52 in first class cricket. He never faced a season of failure, except by setting his own astonishing standars which rose expectations. At the peak of his career, between the years of 1927 to 1933, in six English seasons and two tours of Australia and one of South Africa. Sutcliffe scored almost 20,000 runs at an average of 66.72. These were days of good batting pitches and high scoring, but even so, Sutcliffe stood out among his English colleagues. His career has spanned over the World War 1 which meant he made a late entry i...