Cricket
Playing for the Grange, he debuted against the Free Foresters in 1874. He played eighteen matches for the national side over 36 years.
He captained Scotland in their first match against Ireland after the formation of the 2nd Scottish Cricket Union, and was the first President of the Scottish Cricket Union to play for the national side.
During his career he scored 46 centuries.
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Famous quotes containing the word cricket:
“All cries are thin and terse;
The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
A cricket like a dwindled hearse
Crawls from the dry grass.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
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