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Warwickshire Facts and Feats

• At Edgbaston in 1922 Warwickshire bowled Hampshire out for 15 and still lost the match by 155 runs. Hampshire posted 521 in their second innings and bowled out Warwickshire, who needed 314 to win, for 158.

• Father and son William and Bernard Quaife played alongside each other for Warwickshire. For 10 remarkable minutes, in 1922, they batted together against the bowling of Billy Bestwick and his son in a match against Derbyshire.

• Eric Hollies bowled for Warwickshire from 1932 to 1957, taking 2,323 wickets with his rolled leg breaks and disguised googlies – including Don Bradman for a duck in his last Test innings in 1948. He took 184 wickets at 15.6 that year, including a remarkable 'all ten' against Nottinghamshire at Edgbaston without the help of a fielder. 7 of his victims were clean bowled, the other 3 fell LBW.]

• Brian Lara ended his remarkable run of First Class Centuries scoring the World Record 501* v Durham at Birmingham 1994. His first was the 375 and his last of that particular run was 501*. It eclipsed Mohammad Hanif's 499 and was the first instance of a 500+ score in First Class cricket and it remains a record to this date.

• Legspinner Collins Obuya, who hit the headlines during the 2003 Cricket World Cup when Kenya upset Sri Lanka, became the first cricketer from Kenya to play professional cricket in England.