Double (cricket)
A
wickets in first-class
matches during the course of a single season.
The feat is extremely rare outside
List A matches, last being achieved by Franklyn Stephenson in 1988
.
Jim Parks senior managed the unique double of 3000 runs and 100 wickets in 1937. Maurice Tate
, who scored 1193 runs and took 116 wickets during the MCC's tour of India and Ceylon in 1926–27, is the only cricketer to have achieved the feat outside England.
The "wicketkeeper's double", of one thousand runs and one hundred dismissals in a season, has only ever been achieved by Les Ames (on three occasions), and by John Murray.
See also
Sources
- Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 2007 edition, ISBN 978-1-905625-02-4, p327.