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Andy Sandham
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Right-handed batsman (RHB)
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14
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875
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3821
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2/3
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325
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0
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N/A
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4/0
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643
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41,284
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4482
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107/165
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325
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1,008
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18
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3111
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0
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0
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3-27
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158/0
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13 August
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1921
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12 April
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1930
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(born
6 July 1890 in
Streatham ,
London , died
20 April 1982 in
Westminster ,
London ) was an
English Cricket er, a right-handed
Batsman who played 14
Test Match es between 1921 and 1930. He scored over 40,000
First-class runs, but bowled only very rarely; he took just 18 wickets in his career.
Sandham made his
Surrey debut in 1911, and was
Capped in 1913. In his 26 years at the county Sandham formed a formidable opening partnership with
Jack Hobbs , and the two put on a hundred for the first wicket on 66 occasions, the highest of these the 428 they accumulated against
Oxford University in 1926. He passed 2,000 runs in eight seasons, and during the middle part of his career between 1924 and 1931
Averaged above 50 in all but two years.
Sandham made his
England debut in 1921 against
Australia , inching his way to 21 in 81 minutes. He went to
South Africa in 1922-23 but made only one half-century in his nine innings, and though he was named as a
Wisden Cricketer Of The Year in 1923, he again failed to make much of an impression either against
The South Africans in 1924 or in Australia the following winter. In 1924
Herbert Sutcliffe made his Test debut, and his success as Hobbs' opening partner restricted Sandham's opportunities subsequently. Sandham went to South Africa in 1926-27 and scored heavily in the matches against domestic opposition, averaging above 60, but was not picked for any of the Tests.
However, he did play in the
Caribbean series in 1929-30, and it was here that he achieved his greatest fame. In the first Test at
Bridgetown he made 152 and 51. In the next two games he failed completely, making 0 and 5 at
Port Of Spain and then 9 and 0 at
Georgetown . In the fourth and final Test at
Kingston , however, he became the first Test triple-centurion when he compiled a mammoth 325 out of England's equally imposing total of 849. The theoretically timeless match was in fact abandoned as a draw after nine days, but Sandham had still had time to make 50 in the second innings; he had scored 592 runs in the series.
That was Sandham's final match at Test level, and his 325 is by some distance the highest score in a final test match. He continued to appear regularly for Surrey for a number of years, scoring 219 against the touring Australians in 1934, a record for a county player against that opposition. He recorded his hundredth first-class hundred in 1935 and made 239 against
Glamorgan as late as June 1937, only a month short of his 47th birthday. He scored 102 in his final match in England, against
Sussex at
Hove , but had an unusual end to his career, playing three games at
Buenos Aires for Sir TEW Brinkman's XI against
Argentina in 1937-38. These matches were designated as first-class, and so he ended with a whimper, not reaching 30 in any of his six innings in South America.
After
The War , Sandham returned to Surrey as
Coach and delighted in the county's seven successive
County Championship titles in the
1950s , later becoming the club's scorer.
