Original sentence: The 1768 English cricket season saw a brief return by Sussex to top-class cricket and the possibility of the earliest known century in major cricket
Edited sentence: The 1768 English cricket season saw a brief return by Sussex to top-class cricket.The player of the season was unquestionably the great John Small, master batsman of the Hambledon Club, who produced two of the most brilliant performances recorded to date, including that possible first-ever first-class century.This was a season which could well have seen (though tantalisingly it is not quite certain) the earliest known century in major cricket