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Jimmy Binks

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Binks stands 19th on the all-time list of wicketkeepers with 1,071 first-class dismissals. He holds the record for the most catches in an English season with 96 in 1960. With 11 stumpings in that season, he is one of only seven wicket-keepers to achieve more than 100 dismissals in an English season.
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Binks had his benefit year in 1967 with a range of matches around Yorkshire and the fund realised £5,351. His chosen county match was 24–27 June at Headingley against Surrey. Yorkshire, with Trueman as acting captain, won by an innings and 92 runs (Binks scored 32 runs but took only one catch). Sir
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With regard to Binks' short international career, the cricket commentator, Colin Bateman, stated, "Binks... oddly failed to reproduce the elegant assurance he brought to his work with Yorkshire. It may have had something to do with the fact that he was also asked to act as emergency opener". Binks'
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career is unique. Coming into the Yorkshire team in June 1955, he then played in every single Championship game played by Yorkshire until he retired at the end of the 1969 season. Yorkshire won the Championship seven times in this period and the Gillette Cup twice.
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said that the "greatest injustice of all" (by the England selectors) was their limitation of Binks to only two Tests. In Trueman's opinion, Binks was "far and away the best wicket-keeper in the country after
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William Worsley, the club president stated: "No player in the history of Yorkshire cricket has served his County better than Jimmy Binks". Binks was a
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ISBN
978-1-905080-85-4
"Jimmy Binks"


If The Cap Fits
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