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Jack Hobbs

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INTL CAREER: 1908 - 1930
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Dale Steyn and Wasim Akram bowling in tandem? Here's a Test side where that happens

Dale Steyn and Wasim Akram bowling in tandem? Here's a Test side where that happens

An all-time Test XV picked by readers

08-Jan-2022•Anantha Narayanan
All eyes on Taunton: When Sir Jack Hobbs 'got it at last'

All eyes on Taunton: When Sir Jack Hobbs 'got it at last'

A one-line telegram to his wife, Ada, told the story all of Fleet Street had come to write

02-Jul-2020•Paul Edwards
Tonking it before tea, and double-barrelled exploits

Tonking it before tea, and double-barrelled exploits

Also, who has the most Test scores between 80 and 99?

01-Aug-2017•Steven Lynch
Half-century of boundaries, and miserly bowlers

Half-century of boundaries, and miserly bowlers

Also, best percentage of hundreds to innings, most frequent appearances on the Lord's honours board, most first-class fifties, and Sanga and Mahela's twin totals

01-Jul-2014•Steven Lynch
Deadly duos

Deadly duos

Cricket is a game of partnerships. Here are five that can go down in history

14-Dec-2011•George Dobell
The opening salvo

The opening salvo

How do Hobbs and Sutcliffe compare to Greenidge and Haynes? A look at the most durable combinations who opened the batting in Test cricket

29-Aug-2011•S Rajesh
Tendulkar only current player in ESPNcricinfo all-time World XI

Tendulkar only current player in ESPNcricinfo all-time World XI

Four Australians and three West Indians make it to the side. Warne, Gilchrist and Akram other recent players to feature

25-Oct-2010•ESPNcricinfo staff
To John Berry Hobbs on his seventieth birthday

To John Berry Hobbs on his seventieth birthday

John Arlott salutes the Master in 1952

28-Mar-2010•John Arlott
First-class cricket's most prolific batsman

First-class cricket's most prolific batsman

His Test record is imposing enough, but Jack Hobbs has set some first-class numbers which will probably never be surpassed

27-Mar-2010•S Rajesh
Jack Hobbs and the golden age

Jack Hobbs and the golden age

The Master's autobiography provides glimpses of a long-ago time that is strikingly similar (and not) to ours

13-Dec-2009•Suresh Menon
Old gold

Old gold

England's all-time team has just two players from the last 30 years

27-Aug-2009•Andrew Miller
Pietersen makes all-time England XI

Pietersen makes all-time England XI

One contemporary star lines up alongside greats including Hobbs, Hutton, Barnes and Larwood in England's side

27-Aug-2009•Cricinfo staff
For love (and money)

For love (and money)

A "professional who batted just like an amateur", he was perceived as businesslike, but was actually a brilliant, spontaneous, original player

20-Jun-2009•Gideon Haigh
Hobbs reigns in the shadow of the Quantocks

Hobbs reigns in the shadow of the Quantocks

RC Robertson-Glasgow recalls two memorable centuries at Taunton in August 1925

12-Mar-2009
From Grace to Hick

From Grace to Hick

How the other 24 beat Mark Ramprakash to the landmark

02-Aug-2008•Patrick Kidd
When the Master felt the pressure

When the Master felt the pressure

A look back at the expectations that surrounded Jack Hobbs in 1925

31-May-2008•Martin Williamson
Hobbs rolls back the clock

Hobbs rolls back the clock

A match report from The Cricketer of the MCC's tour game against Northern Districts

23-Oct-2007
Ripe old age

Ripe old age

Eleven players who continued turning out well beyond normal retirement age

31-Jul-2007•Martin Williamson
A crusader on and off the field

A crusader on and off the field

The news of Botham's knighthood is wonderfully appropriate and shamefully overdue

15-Jun-2007•Andrew Miller
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