John Brian Bolus was an English cricketer who played in seven Test matches from 1963 to 1964.
16 Facts About Brian Bolus
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Brian Bolus learned his cricket with Whitkirk before moving to Leeds in 1953, and then to Bradford.
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Brian Bolus began his first-class career in his native Yorkshire in 1956, playing for seven years.
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Brian Bolus played 107 matches for Yorkshire, with a highest score of 146 not out against Hampshire at Portsmouth in 1960.
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Brian Bolus moved on to Nottinghamshire in 1963, after Yorkshire opted for a relative unknown, Geoffrey Boycott, who was six years younger.
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Brian Bolus became the third player to be capped by three counties, and the first to captain two different county sides in successive seasons, when he moved to Derbyshire in 1973.
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Brian Bolus played 64 matches for Derbyshire, with a highest score of 151 against Oxford University at the Bass Worthington Ground in Burton upon Trent in 1975.
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Brian Bolus twice scored more than one thousand runs in a season whilst playing for Yorkshire, as well as ten times for Nottinghamshire and twice for Derbyshire.
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Brian Bolus hit the first ball he faced in Test cricket, bowled by Wes Hall, back over the bowler's head for four.
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Brian Bolus was unable to convert any of his four Test fifties to three figures, and found himself overtaken in the international reckoning by Geoff Boycott and John Edrich.
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Brian Bolus does hold two unusual Test match records - the most Tests in a complete career without ever recording a single figure score, and the most Test Match innings in a complete career without ever recording a single figure score.
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In May 1975, Brian Bolus asked to be relieved of the Derbyshire captaincy, and was replaced by Bob Taylor.
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Brian Bolus effectively retired at the end of the 1975 season, with over 25,500 first-class runs to his name.
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Brian Bolus became an England Test selector in the 1990s.
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Brian Bolus was an Honorary Life Member of Whitkirk Cricket Club.
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Brian Bolus is one of the small band of captains to send off one of his own players, dismissing the Derbyshire and England paceman Alan Ward from the Queen's Park, Chesterfield, ground in 1973 after Ward had declined to resume bowling.