[Zeeshan]

21st Test:

England

won

inns & 98 runs

Australia v England

Melbourne

21 Mar 1885

England won ASHES 3-2

Match notes

• A Shrewsbury became the first Englad captain to score a Test hundred.
• TW Garrett deputised for umpire Hodges when the latter refused to stand after tea on the third day because of England's complaints about his decisions. JC Allen stood for Phillips on the third and fourth days. McShane played in this Test after umpiring in the previous one.
• Jarvis was the second Australian substitute fielder after Murdoch to hold a catch for England.
• W Bates (1) retired hurt on 54* from 214/4 to 324/7

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Arthur Shrewsbury

For almost a decade starting in the late 1880s Arthur Shrewsbury was arguably the finest batsman in the world. WG Grace, his main rival for that accolade, was once asked who he'd most like to have in his side, and said simply: "Give me Arthur." With a game built around an impregnable defence based on his pads, Shrewsbury was a magnificent runmaker especially on bad or so-called sticky wickets, scoring many of his greatest hundreds on pitches his partners found impossible to master. The best-known of these knocks came against Australia at Lord's in 1886, when he scored a masterly 164 against the might of Fred Spofforth, on a pitch deemed "impossible" by his peers. Seven years later he repeated the feat, with a well-made 106 - again at Lord's against Australia - in equally trying conditions, on a sticky wicket against Charles "The Terror" Turner. Even in 1902, his final season, by which time he was 47, Shrewsbury managed to top the first-class averages (1250 runs at 50), as he had done half-a-dozen times in his heyday. Sadly, though, he shot himself the following year after a bout of depression. A quiet, humble man, his passing was mourned all over the cricket-playing world - but especially in Nottinghamshire, the county which he served grandly for nearly three decades.

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Shrewsbury's sorrows

In the winter of 1901-02, Arthur Shrewsbury found himself homeless....

The verdict on Arthur Shrewsbury was that he took life too seriously. His business affairs were treated in the same way as his approach to cricket, every step being most carefully rehearsed and every foreseen possibility catered for...

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