Godfrey Evans
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |
| Bowling type | Legbreak | |
| Tests | First-class | |
| Matches | 91 | 465 |
| Runs scored | 2439 | 14882 |
| Batting average | 20.49 | 21.22 |
| 100s/50s | 2/8 | 7/62 |
| Top score | 104 | 144 |
| Balls bowled | - | 286 |
| Wickets | - | 2 |
| Bowling average | - | 122.50 |
| 5 wickets in innings | - | - |
| 10 wickets in match | - | - |
| Best bowling | - | 2/50 |
| Catches/stumpings | 173/46 | 816/250 |
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Test debut: 17 August 1946 |
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Thomas Godfrey Evans CBE (August 18, 1920 – May 3, 1999) was an English cricketer who played for Kent and England.
Described by Wisden as 'arguably the best wicket-keeper the game has ever seen', Evans collected 219 dismissals in 91 Test match appearances between 1946 and 1959 and a further 1066 in first-class matches for Kent. En route he was the first wicket keeper to reach 200 Test dismissals, the first Englishman to reach 1000 runs and 100 dismissals in first-class cricket, the first Englishman to reach 2000 runs and 200 dismissals, and a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1951.
After his retirement from professional cricket Evans became a cricket expert for bookmakers Ladbrokes, famously offering odds of 500 to 1 on an England victory against Australia at Headingley in 1981, the match in which Ian Botham and Bob Willis fought back from following-on at 227 runs behind to achieve a memorably improbable victory.
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