Carst Posthuma (11 January 1868 – 21 December 1939) was a Dutch

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player of the late 19th/early 20th century. He was a left-handed batsman and left-arm fast bowler. He played 72 times for the

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up to 1928, when he would have been sixty years old. He holds the Dutch record for most wickets in a career, taking 2,338 wickets at an average of 8.67. He was also the first Dutchman to take 100 wickets in a season in 1900, and the first to score a century in domestic cricket in 1894. Perhaps the highest point of his career came in 1903 when he played five first-class games for

W. G. Grace William Gilbert Grace (18 July 1848 – 23 October 1915) was an English amateur cricketer who was important in the development of the sport and is widely considered one of its greatest players. He played first-class cricket for a record-equal ...

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. In his five matches, he took 23 wickets at an average of 15.04, with best bowling figures of 7/68 coming against Leicestershire.

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