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Archie MacLaren
Thu, December 01 2016
Archie MacLaren: 10 interesting facts about the charismatic English opening batsman
Archie MacLaren was a former England right-hand opening batsman who was considered as one of the finest batsmen of his era.
Thu, August 25 2016
Archie MacLaren’s amateurs fell Warwick Armstrong’s mighty Australians in one of cricket’s greatest fairytales
When Archie MacLaren claimed that he could pick a team to defeat Australia — and did so.
Tue, December 01 2015
Archie MacLaren: Brilliant, boorish and bankrupt
On the field, with the bat MacLaren was often regal, majestic, and sometimes not quite so brilliant.
Thu, June 26 2014
Archie MacLaren becomes the first-ever batsman to score a quadruple hundred in First-Class cricket
On July 16, 1895 Archie MacLaren scored the first-ever quadruple-hundred [424] in First-Class cricket — against Somerset at Taunton. Abhishek Mukherjee looks back at the innings that remained the highest individual score on English soil for 99 years.