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He scored a double century for Surrey against a touring Australian Imperial Forces cricket team and centuries in each of the three Gentlemen v Players matches—the only player ever to do so in one season. [154] [155] His rescheduled benefit match raised £1,670 (£91,750 in 2021 terms), [156] money he used to open a sports shop in London. The ...
Austrian athlete and graphic designer [200] Marie Provazníková: 1890–1991: 100: Czechoslovak sports official active in the Sokol movement [201] Maurice Racca: 1922–2023: 100: French Olympic sport shooter [202] Marko Račič: 1920–2022: 102: Slovenian Olympic athlete [203] Ted Radcliffe: 1902–2005: 103: American Negro league baseball ...
In the sport of cricket, a batsman is said to have scored a century when they reach a score of 100 or more runs in an innings without being dismissed. In first-class cricket , the highest form of the game below international level , a total of 25 players have achieved the feat on a hundred or more occasions.
The Sumerian king Shulgi (c. 21st century BCE) boasts of his prowess in sport in the Self-praise of Shulgi A, B, and C. [16] Fishing hooks not unlike those made today have been found during excavations at Ur, suggesting some sort of angling activity in Sumer around 2600 BC.
Of the athletes who participated in two or more Summer Olympics in two different sports, 49 are Swedish and 23 of them participated in the home Olympics in Stockholm 1912. Gwynne Evans , [ 2 ] Leo Goodwin , Frank Kugler [ 1 ] and Joe Lydon [ 2 ] are the only athletes to win medals in three different sports.
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The business of sports continues to boom, paying dividends for the best of the best on the field of play. Forbes released its annual list of highest-earning athletes on Tuesday. Eight earned more ...
1721 — mariners of the British East India Company reported to be playing cricket at Khambhat (then Cambay) in western India, the earliest known reference to cricket in the Indian sub-continent. [7] 1724 — earliest mention of Edwin Stead, the noted patron of Kent county cricket; under his leadership, Kent was the most successful team of the ...