This is an interesting little piece of cricketing history that I didn't know about. For those equally in the dark as me about the way Jack Hobbs overtook WG Grace's 125 centuries, read this article on Cricinfo.I found this comment intriguing "...on 97 he danced down the pitch, missed the ball but Mervyn Hill failed - or chose not to - complete the stumping." Surely, even back then when cricket was played in the most fair of spirits, a keeper wouldn't deliberately miss a stumping in a 1st class game?
I remember reading about an instance some years ago, of two batsmen colliding whilst running in a test match, and the keeper opting not to take the bails off, as he felt it was unsporting, but sadly I can't remember who it was or when, and a perfunctory google search yields nothing. If I can dig it up I'll post a link.
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