George Edward Hunt was an English

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 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er who played over 200 matches for Somerset County Cricket Club

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 as a bowling all-rounder. He scored nearly 5,000 first class runs including one century and fifteen half-centuries, and took 386 wickets at a bowling average

Bowling average

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of 32.87 through a ten-year career from 1921 to 1931.

Hunt was a lower-order right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler often used as first-change. He was also a regular close-to-the-wicket fielder.