Eric Hollies
Cricket Player
1912 – 1981
Who was Eric Hollies?
William Eric Hollies was an English cricketer, who is mainly remembered for taking the wicket of Donald Bradman for a duck in Bradman's final Test match innings, in which only four was needed for a Test average of 100. Hollies played all his first-class cricket career for Warwickshire, taking 2,323 wickets at less than 21 a piece.
Cricket writer, Colin Bateman, noted, "Hollies was one of cricket's most extraordinary characters, whose meagre thirteen Tests in no way reflected his contribution to the game. He was a fastish leg-break bowler who rarely had much use for the googly." Bateman added, "loquacious, with a rich seam of Black Country humour, he was an immensely respected and hard-working cricketer".
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- Born
- Jun 5, 1912
Old Hill - Nationality
- England
- Died
- Apr 16, 1981
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on July 23, 2013
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