49 against Warwickshire was enough. Very well done - immense achievement.

Arise Sir Hicky!

One of the Great county batsmen full stop. He's having an old school career.

Ere B@z, what do you reckon, Hicky for the Twenty20 World Cup? He's a cracking T20 batsman, still not bad in the field...

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Originally posted by Comical Smoking Monkey:
Ere B@z, what do you reckon, Hicky for the Twenty20 World Cup? He's a cracking T20 batsman, still not bad in the field...

I'd pick him - come to that I would have had him the World Cup squad. Won't happen though I'm afraid.

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Originally posted by B@sil:
I'd pick him - come to that I would have had him the World Cup squad. Won't happen though I'm afraid.

Agreed, we wont even send out a proper Twenty20 team Disgrace.

Great plyer. But this made me laugh. http://www.nobok.co.uk/javaImages/12/1a/0,,10301~3021330,00.jpg

Cleo should be thinking of Hick each night before shut eye, not Ramps. Since Ramps is a poor mans Hick.

Still needs another 4454 runs to go past Don Kenyon's record aggregate for Worcestershire.

Nobel prize for Allan D for not posting something with more than a million words.

"Merely corroborative detail to add artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative."

"A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity."

Class Al, I'll give you that.

But everything else you've said has been carp.

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Originally posted by Allan D:
Still needs another 4454 runs to go past Don Kenyon's record aggregate for Worcestershire.

If you include 20/20, which I guess you have to these days he's only about 4500 runs behind Gooch for all time leading run scorer.

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Originally posted by daydreamings:
Class Al, I'll give you that.

But everything else you've said has been carp.

Allan has forgotten more about cricket than you will ever know.

He never did get that Ashes ton...

Just like Thicko.

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Originally posted by Lapidary:
He never did get that Ashes ton...

Atherton deserves a knighthood just for that...

Guess I'll play the pedant, it's Graeme not Graham.

And well done to him.

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Originally posted by Gildas:

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Originally posted by Allan D:
Still needs another 4454 runs to go past Don Kenyon's record aggregate for Worcestershire.

If you include 20/20, which I guess you have to these days he's only about 4500 runs behind Gooch for all time leading run scorer.

I wonder how many runs players like Ranji, Hammond and Denis Compton would have made if they had played 20/20 and OD cricket.

If it was at the expense of the massive number of FC matches they played in those days, then I suspect even less.

Which makes Hick's record all the more remarkable.

BTW - Ramps is closing in on 30,000 runs.

What makes it more amazing is that he's played almost half of his FC matches at New Road, which is by all acocunts a seamer's paradise.

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Originally posted by Mbangwa:
What makes it more amazing is that he's played almost half of his FC matches at New Road, which is by all acocunts a seamer's paradise.

Our piches have traditionally offered generous assistance to seam bowlers, but I'm not so sure about this season judging by some of the scores, which have been posted.

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Originally posted by JGK:
If it was at the expense of the massive number of FC matches they played in those days, then I suspect even less.

Which makes Hick's record all the more remarkable.

BTW - Ramps is closing in on 30,000 runs.

The players of old played regularly in Sunday benefit matches, the OD cricket of their time, in addition to playing 2 CC matches per week as well as Test Matches and these largely do not appear in the record books. It has been estimated that Hobbs made 214 centuries in all cricket comfortably passing the 200 mark which he strived so hard, but failed, to achieve at FC level but I agree Hick's performance as a run-getter is remarkable. Unfortunately central contracts will undermine the FC career run aggregate figures as an indication of greatness.