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'''Thomas Godfrey Evans''' [[CBE]] ([[August 18]], [[1920]] – [[May 3]], [[1999]]) was an [[England|English]] [[cricketer]] who played for [[Kent County Cricket Club|Kent]] and [[England cricket team|England]]. |
'''Thomas Godfrey Evans''' [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] ([[August 18]], [[1920]] – [[May 3]], [[1999]]) was an [[England|English]] [[cricketer]] who played for [[Kent County Cricket Club|Kent]] and [[England cricket team|England]]. |
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Described by ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' as 'arguably the best wicket-keeper the game has ever seen', Evans collected 219 [[dismissal (cricket)|dismissals]] in 91 [[Test cricket|Test match]] appearances between [[1946]] and [[1959]] and a further 1066 in first-class matches for Kent. En route he was the first wicket keeper to reach 200 Test dismissals, the first Englishman to reach 1000 runs and 100 dismissals in first-class cricket, the first Englishman to reach 2000 runs and 200 dismissals, and the [[Wisden Cricketer of the Year]] in 1951. |
Described by ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' as 'arguably the best wicket-keeper the game has ever seen', Evans collected 219 [[dismissal (cricket)|dismissals]] in 91 [[Test cricket|Test match]] appearances between [[1946]] and [[1959]] and a further 1066 in first-class matches for Kent. En route he was the first wicket keeper to reach 200 Test dismissals, the first Englishman to reach 1000 runs and 100 dismissals in first-class cricket, the first Englishman to reach 2000 runs and 200 dismissals, and the [[Wisden Cricketer of the Year]] in 1951. |
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Thomas Godfrey Evans CBE (August 18, 1920 – May 3, 1999) was an English cricketer who played for Kent and England.
Described by Wisden as 'arguably the best wicket-keeper the game has ever seen', Evans collected 219 dismissals in 91 Test match appearances between 1946 and 1959 and a further 1066 in first-class matches for Kent. En route he was the first wicket keeper to reach 200 Test dismissals, the first Englishman to reach 1000 runs and 100 dismissals in first-class cricket, the first Englishman to reach 2000 runs and 200 dismissals, and the Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1951.
After his retirement from professional cricket Evans became a cricket expert for bookmakers Ladbrokes, famously offering odds of 500 to 1 on an England victory against Australia at Headingley in 1981, the match in which Ian Botham and Bob Willis fought back from following-on at 227 runs behind to achieve a memorably improbable victory.
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