Arthur Edward Fagg (18 June 1915 – 13 September 1977) was an English

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er who played for

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and the

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, and became an umpire after retiring as a player. A right-handed opening batsman who first played for Kent at the age of 17, Fagg was a Test match player at 21 against

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in 1936. He caught

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on the tour of Australia the following winter, and missed the whole of the 1937 season.Fagg's unique double-hundreds

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. Retrieved 2017-07-15. There was strong evidence that Fagg was back to his best form in 1938. He set a first-class world record playing for Kent against

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, scoring 244 in the first innings and an undefeated 202 in the second innings in a drawn match, becoming the first batsman in first-class cricket history to score double centuries in both innings of a match. This feat was not equalled until 2019, when it was achieved in Sri Lankan domestic cricket by Angelo Perera. The 1938 season was a year of record-breaking, and the young Leonard Hutton cemented his place as England's first choice opener with his 364 against the

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. Fagg played only one more Test, though he remained a consistent scorer in county cricket until the mid-1950s. In all, he scored 58 centuries and more than 25,000 runs. After retirement, he became a

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, officiating in eighteen Test matches and seven

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s. In an incident at

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in 1973, he refused to take the field after the West Indies team disputed one of his decisions.

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