Graeme Hick

[Hiney]

Has just become only the 8th person to score 100 first class centuries for one county.

I know he has faced accusations of being a flat-track bully at various stages of his career but this is an amazing achievement.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Well done Graeme Hick.

 

[Hiney]

Don't know!

I just heard it on the radio.

I would imagine the others would be

Boycott, Hobbs, Hammond, Sutcliffe, Woolley, Hutton and maybe Gooch

I could be (and probably am) wrong

 

[Trigger]

Legend...

I've always been a Hick fan, a fine cricketer.

 

[Captain Pugwash]

well done that man

 

[Hiney]

Legend...

I've always been a Hick fan, a fine cricketer.

Agree.

He was treated very poorly by Illingworth in particular who didn't seem to rate him for some reason.

Wasn't he also stitched up by Atherton who declared in an Ashes test when Hick was 98no?

 

[Grendel]

I would imagine the others would be

Boycott, Hobbs, Hammond, Sutcliffe, Woolley, Hutton and maybe Gooch

I could be (and probably am) wrong

5 out of 7 isn't a bad guess! The other seven are:

J.B. Hobbs (Surrey)
C.P. Mead (Hampshire)
F.E. Woolley (Kent)
E.H. Hendren (Middlesex)
W.R. Hammond (Gloucestershire)
H. Sutcliffe (Yorkshire)
G. Boycott (Yorkshire)

Gooch made 94 centuries for Essex, whilst Hutton managed 85 for Yorkshire.

 

[Hiney]

*dustsoffspecialquiltedanorak*

 

[RonnieO'Sullivan]

Well Done Graham...

Fantastic Achievement

 

[Stinkers Bridge]

A truly great effort with the bat.

I have only ever played cricket once and I didn't do very well. Can anyone beat that record?

 

[Stat Brother]

*dustsoffspecialquiltedanorak*

Now I'm glad we're off to some northern outposts, this season, cos I've got to see that.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Hick to retire at end of season

Former England batsman Graeme Hick has announced he will retire from county cricket at the end of this season.

The Worcestershire player, 42, has enjoyed an illustrious 25-year career, scoring 136 first-class centuries. Hick is regarded as one of the most gifted batsmen of his generation, although he failed to flourish in the international arena - averaging 31.32. He has scored 41,112 runs in 526 first-class games at an average of 52.23, with 294 scores of 50-plus.

The Zimbabwe-born batsman made his Worcestershire debut in the last game of the 1984 season and since then has beaten almost every batting record in the club's history.

In June last year, Hick, who made 65 Test appearances, became only the 16th player to score more than 40,000 first-class runs.

He made his England debut against West Indies at Leeds in 1991 after becoming the youngest player to score 50 first-class centuries, but was dropped after just four Tests in what was to become a stop-start international career.

A year later, against Pakistan at Edgbaston, he scored his first Test 50, but was later omitted from the side before earning a recall for the winter tour of India, where he hit his maiden Test century. Hick made his final Test appearance against Sri Lanka in Kandy in March 2001, finishing with just six hundreds and 18 half-centuries.


A truly remarkable cricketer and it will be sad to see him depart from the county scene. Both Hick and Ramprakash were victims of some poor management, I feel.