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Tom Hayward
1871Mar, 29

Tom Hayward

Tom Hayward, English cricketer (d. 1939)
Thomas Walter Hayward (29 March 1871 – 19 July 1939) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Surrey and England between the 1890s and the outbreak of World War I. He was primarily an opening batsman, noted especially for the quality of his off-drive. Neville Cardus wrote that he "was amongst the most precisely technical and most prolific batsmen of any time in the annals of cricket." He was only the second batsman to reach the landmark of 100 first-class centuries, following WG Grace. In the 1906 English season he scored 3,518 runs, a record aggregate since surpassed only by Denis Compton and Bill Edrich in 1947.

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    Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
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  • 21May

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  • 28Sep

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