TREVOR BAILEY, the Essex and England all-rounder, who completed 2000 runs and 100 wickets yesterday, the last day of the English cricket season. Playing for The Rest against the champion county, Yorkshire, Bailey took one wicket yesterday to reach 100, then scored 32, taking his aggregate to 2000 runs when he was 21. The 2000 runs-100 wicket double had not been achieved since 1937,- when' James Parks (Sussex) scored 3003 runs and took 101 wickets. His county colleague, James Langridge, hit 2082 runs and took 101 wickets and Emrys Davies (Glamorgan) scored 2012 runs and captured 103 wickets.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29002, 17 September 1959, Page 6
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98TREVOR BAILEY, the Essex and England all-rounder, who completed 2000 runs and 100 wickets yesterday, the last day of the English cricket season. Playing for The Rest against the champion county, Yorkshire, Bailey took one wicket yesterday to reach 100, then scored 32, taking his aggregate to 2000 runs when he was 21. The 2000 runs-100 wicket double had not been achieved since 1937,- when' James Parks (Sussex) scored 3003 runs and took 101 wickets. His county colleague, James Langridge, hit 2082 runs and took 101 wickets and Emrys Davies (Glamorgan) scored 2012 runs and captured 103 wickets. Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29002, 17 September 1959, Page 6
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