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In cricket,a century is a score of 100 or more runs in a single innings by a batter. The term is also included in "century partnership" which occurs when two batsmen add 100 runs to the team total when they are batting together. A century is regarded as a landmark score for batters and a player's number of centuries is generally recorded in their career statistics. Scoring a century is loosely equivalent in merit to a bowler taking a five-wicket haul,and is commonly referred to as a ton or hundred. Scores of more than 200 runs are still statistically counted as a century,although these scores are referred to as double,triple,and quadruple centuries,and so on. Reaching 50 runs in an innings is known as a half-century.
Kent County Cricket Club in 2005 played their cricket in Division One of the County Championship and Division Two of the totesport League. They started the Championship at 11–2 to win it,behind Surrey and Warwickshire. Their first first-class game,however,was against the students of Cardiff UCCE. They fell to 104 for 6 before rain prevented any further play. They had little luck in their first Sunday League game,against Derbyshire,which was also abandoned through rain.
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Rikki Clarke is a retired English cricketer,who last played for Surrey. He was educated at Broadwater School and then Godalming College. Clarke began his career as a professional cricketer with Surrey in 2000,making his list A debut in 2001 and First Class debut in 2002,and the following year made his One Day International debut for England;later in 2003 he played his first Test match. Between 2003 and 2006 he played two Tests,both against Bangladesh and 20 ODIs.
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Victor Alexander Barton was an English first-class cricketer,association footballer,and soldier. Beginning his cricket with the Royal Artillery Cricket Club,his performances bought him to the attention of Kent,for whom he would play first-class cricket for in 1889 and 1890. Barton bought himself out of the Royal Artillery in 1891 in order to pursue a professional career with his native-county Hampshire,who were at the time a second-class county. Prior to his arrival at Hampshire,Barton toured South Africa with an English team captained by Walter Read,and played in the tours final match against South Africa,which was later retrospectively afforded Test status. He played for Hampshire between 1892 and 1902,and following their reelevation to first-class status for the 1895 season,Barton appeared in over 140 first-class matches for the county,scoring over 6,000 runs and taking 130 wickets.
Gary Keedy is a retired English cricketer. A slow-left arm spin bowler,he played one match for Yorkshire in 1994,having graduated from their cricket academy,before moving to Lancashire in 1995. He played for the club until 2012 taking over 500 first-class wickets. Although he had played youth internationals,he never played for the senior England team,although he was named in the squad a few times. In 2011 he was part of the Lancashire squad that won the County Championship for the first time since 1950. Keedy subsequently played one season for Surrey and two for Nottinghamshire before retiring as a professional cricketer in 2015. After studying physiotherapy at the University of Salford,he is currently Nottinghamshire's spin bowling coach and assistant physiotherapist.
Graham Richard Napier is an English former cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler. Napier played first-class cricket for his home county of Essex since the outset of his senior career in 1997. Between 1997 and 1999 Napier played in four Youth Test matches in England against Zimbabwe,South Africa (twice) and Australia's respective under-19 teams. He was also a member of the 1998 Under-19 Cricket World Cup winning squad. Napier was on the books of Ipswich Town as a goalkeeper and played for a season on loan at Felixstowe Town. He retired at the end of the 2016 season.
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