5 highlights from Walter Hammond's career

#3 All-round talents

One of the best batsman to have graced the sport? Check.

Slip-fielding supremo? Check.

The only remaining facade of cricket, that too he excelled at. As if 167 first-class centuries did not make him feel content with himself, Hammond tallied some few 732 odd wickets to go along. Interestingly, comparisons can be drawn between him and his modern-era equivalent, Sachin Tendulkar when seeing the bowling sides of them.

Both bowled medium-pace and off-spin depending on whatever the conditions and batsmen's vulnerabilities deemed effective and both committed the sin of never taking their gift for bowling too seriously.

Hammond's best bowling analysis of nine wickets for a miserly 23 runs is one of the best returns in first-class cricket for a cricketer averaging as high as him with the bat. He also has two Test five-wicket hauls, including one on debut, to his name that too playing in the era of Harold Larwood and Douglas Jardine.