Original sentence: But after this one appearance, he was discarded in favour of Alan Knott who was regarded as a better batsman.He became England's regular wicket-keeper and played in 57 Test matches in total.He subsequently scored exactly 100 against Yorkshire at Sheffield in 1981, his only first-class century.His 1649 dismissals (1473 caught, 176 stumped) in 639 games remains a first-class record.It was only when Knott joined World Series Cricket in 1977 (which meant a ban from official Test cricket) that Taylor appeared in more Tests.With the bat, Taylor averaged only 16.92, and he is one of only two players to have passed 10,000 first-class runs without scoring a century
Edited sentence: But after this one appearance, he was discarded in favour of Alan Knott who was a better batsman.He then became England's regular wicket-keeper and played in 57 Test matches in total.His 1649 dismissals (1473 caught, 176 stumped) in 639 games is a first-class record.It was only when Knott joined the World Series Cricket in 1977 that Taylor appeared in more Tests.Taylor's batting was relatively poor, with an average of only 16.92, and he is one of only two players to have passed 10,000 first-class runs without scoring a century.The other, Tony Lock, never scored more than 89 runs in his first-class career, but Taylor had already recorded several scores in the 90s when he reached 10,000 runs, and he subsequently scored exactly 100 against Yorkshire at Sheffield in 1981, his only first-class century