deliveries death_date columns catches/stumpings year birth_date tenfor bowling country death_place fivefor batting name lasttestyear fullname birth_place column international testdebutdate source date runs testdebutyear wickets lasttestdate s/s matches article_title
-- 252 3 september 1971 2 3 / - 342 / - 1921 25 november 1886 -- -- right-arm medium england huddersfield , yorkshire , england -- -- right-hand bat percy holmes 1932 percy holmes oakes , huddersfield , yorkshire , england tests first-class true 28 may http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/14254.html 1886 11 25 yes 357 30,573 1921 -- 2 25 june - / 4 67/141 7 555 percy holmes

percy holmes

percy holmes -lrb- 25 november 1886 -- 3 september 1971 -rrb- was an english first-class cricketer , who played for yorkshire and england .
holmes was born in oakes , huddersfield , yorkshire , england .
an opening batsman and a fine fielder , holmes was a late developer who played only a handful of matches for yorkshire before world war i , but came to immediate prominence after it with 1,886 runs and five centuries in 1919 .
he was named a wisden cricketer of the year in 1920 .
with herbert sutcliffe , holmes formed for fifteen seasons the most prolific opening partnership in first-class cricket , and 69 times they put on 100 runs or more for the first wicket .
their partnership culminated , in 1932 against essex at leyton , in a then-world-record stand of 555 , beating the previous yorkshire -lrb- and world -rrb- record by brown and tunnicliffe in 1898 by just one run .
holmes contributed an unbeaten 224 to the partnership , which remained the world-record first-wicket partnership for 44 years .
it is still the highest partnership for any wicket in english domestic cricket , and the fifth-highest ever for any wicket in the world .
according to neville cardus , holmes was a jaunty , restless character who believed cricket should be fun .
he tended to score quickly and to play shots , such as cuts and pulls , that `` more correct '' batsmen such as sutcliffe rarely used .
