542:. The innings included 26 runs from five consecutive balls, and he hit eight sixes and 11 fours; he put on 154 in 65 minutes with Tate. Despite this innings, he was not picked for the two representative matches against "All-India" which were the forerunners of Test cricket: a result of the tour was that Gilligan reported back to MCC that India appeared ready for Test cricket, though the failure to form a cricket board in India until 1928 meant the tour of England by an All-India side that year still not feature any Tests.
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England players sat out both tours and other players received their only Test caps by playing in the matches on the twin tours. Earle was not one of these players: in seven first-class matches in Australia and New Zealand, he failed to pass 50 in any innings and he was not picked for any of the four matches against
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Zealand, with matches played on the journey in both Sri Lanka and Australia. This tour coincided with a similar MCC tour to the West Indies and on both tours the representative matches were judged to be Test
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Earle was married three times, his first two marriages ending in divorce. In 1918, he married Isabel
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530:. Earle held his own in this exalted company, making 767 runs at the, for him, high average of 34.86 runs per innings; his bowling was scarcely used at all. The batting included an innings of 130, the highest score of his first-class career and his second century, in the match against the
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English seasons of regular cricket – 1927, 1928, 1929 and 1931 – was only 67, made in the match against
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Alexander, later
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1063:"Decree Nisi for Mr G. F. Earle",
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860:"Scorecard: Lancashire v Somerset"
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926:"Incogniti in North America 1924"
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439:having already scored a century.
1185:Royal Air Force squadron leaders
1150:People educated at Harrow School
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606:"Scorecard: Eton v Harrow"
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