Leonard Hutton, a month short of his 18th birthday, had lodged his maiden half-century on his championship debut for Yorkshire. During the next 26 years he would reach 50 another 307 times in first-class cricket, on 52 occasions for England, on his way to more than 40,000 first-class runs in 513 matches. Frederick Albert Gross, meanwhile, had taken his first wicket for Warwickshire – and his last.
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