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From today's featured article Len Hutton (23 June 1916 – 6 September 1990) was a Test cricketer who played for Yorkshire and England as an opening batsman. Marked out as a potential star from his teenage years, Hutton made his debut for Yorkshire in 1934 and by 1937 was playing for England. He set a record in 1938 for the highest individual innings in a Test match, scoring 364 runs against Australia, a milestone that stood for nearly 20 years. During the Second World War, he received a serious arm injury from which he never fully recovered. In 1946, he assumed a role as the mainstay of England's batting; the team depended greatly on his success for the remainder of his career. In 1952, he became the first professional cricketer of the 20th century to captain England in Tests; under his captaincy in 1953, England won the Ashes for the first time in 19 years. As a batsman, Hutton was cautious and built his style on a sound defence. He remains statistically among the best batsmen to have played Test cricket, and was knighted for his contributions to the game in 1956. He went on to be a Test selector, a journalist and broadcaster, an engineering firm director and, in 1990, the county team's president. (Full article...) Recently featured: Sons of Soul Mortara case Schmerber v. California Did you know... Chicago Spire pit ... that Gateway Tower is a proposed building for the lot that contains the 110 foot (34 m) wide, 76 foot (23 m) deep hole in the ground (pictured) from the abandoned Chicago Spire? ... that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's stay at Atatürk Museum Mansion in Ankara between 1921 and 1932 was his longest at any place in his life? ... that S.C. Braga's record in European football includes 6–0 losses to Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur? ... that the largest female black-sided hawkfish in a harem changes sex if the male dies? ... that some homes in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Zikhron Tuvya sport blue-painted doors, windows, and gates, as well as horseshoes and hamsas, to guard against the evil eye? ... that some Bach scholars believe that Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150, is his earliest extant church cantata? ... that Floyd Carothers turned a plow horse into a national champion?

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