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NCC/2/3/6/9
Title
Wally Hammond
Date
1932-10-01 - 1932-10-01
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Trading card depicting a head and shoulders phototyped portrait of Wally Hammond. He is wearing a white shirt and MCC tour blazer with striped trim. Series No.9. Released with Champion.
Biography on reverse reads: "Walter Hammond (Gloucestershire) Possibly England's finest all-rounder. Born in Dover on June 19th, 1903. In 1927 he broke a record of W. G. Grace's by scoring 1,000 runs in May! He first visited Australia in 1927/28, and scored 905 runs in the Test Match series, beating a record held by Sutcliffe, but subsequently beaten by Don Bradman. When Australia visited in England in 1930, Hammond distinguished himself with a century in the Third Test. Hammond's highest score is 251, at Sydney in the Second Test of the 1928/29 tour. His best match, however, was in 1928 when, against Surrey, he scored 139 and 143 and also took ten catches in the slips."
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