His claim to fame as a cricketer was scoring seven of Victoria's world record 1107 runs against New South Wales in his debut summer.
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He partnered Waheed Mirza in a world record opening stand of 561 in 1977.
Maharashtra were 826/4, with B. B. Nimbalkar having scored 443 not out, the first (and only) quadruple century in Indian first-class cricket, and nine runs behind Sir Donald Bradman's world record score of 452 not out.
In the 1922 season he achieved his record first-class score of 145 against Leicestershire when he and Anthony Jackson made an eighth-wicket partnership of 182, a record for the county which lasted until 1996.