Lumpy Stevens
Edward "Lumpy" Stevens (1735, Send, Surrey – 7 September 1819, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey) was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from c. 1756 to 1789.
He was an outstanding bowler who is generally regarded as the first great bowler in the game's history. He was universally known by his nickname and was always called "Lumpy" in contemporary scorecards and reports.
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“What
One believes is what matters. Ecstatic identities
Between one’s self and the weather and the things
Of the weather are the belief in one’s element,
The casual reunions, the long-pondered
Surrenders, the repeated sayings that
There is nothing more and that it is enough....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)