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| June 23, 2006 | Friday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 26, 1427 |
Hick hits 100th ton for Worcestershire
LONDON, June 22: Former England batsman Graeme Hick became on Thursday the first player to score 100 centuries for Worcestershire.
Hick, 40, joins seven other players who have scored 100 first class centuries for a single county.
After emigrating from his native Zimbabwe, Hick joined Worcestershire in 1984.
He was picked for England in 1991 after completing his residential qualification but rarely produced his county form in a 65-Test career which ended in 2001.
Most first-class hundreds:
(All Englishmen):
J.B. Hobbs 197
E.H. Hendren 170
W.R. Hammond 167
C.P. Mead 153
G. Boycott 151
H. Sutcliffe 149
F.E. Woolley 145
G.A. Hick 130
L. Hutton 129
G.A. Gooch 128
W.G .Grace 126
Leading non-English centurions
D.G. Bradman (Australia 117
I.V.A. Richards (West Indies) 114
Zaheer Abbas (Pakistan) 108
G.M. Turner (New Zealand) 103
—Agencies
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