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FRD'O Monro's book 'Repton Cricket (1901-1951)' contains this statement:

"This side has been sometimes cited as the best cricket team that has ever taken the field for any school,

and there is no doubt that, taken man for man, there has never been, at any rate at Repton, such a

** Captain

wonderful lot of fine cricketers in one side."

HS Altham *

Oxford University, Surrey, Hampshire, Gentlemen of England, MCC

WT Greswell

Ceylon, Somerset, Gentlemen, MCC, Free Foresters, Europeans in the East (IND)

R Sale (Snr)

Oxford University, Derbyshire

AE Cardew

CE Squire

AT Sharp

Leicestershire**

IPF Campbell

India**, Oxford University**, Surrey, Gentlemen, Indian XI (IND), Europeans (IND), Europeans in the East (IND)

JLS Vidler

Oxford University, Sussex, Free Foresters

DW Ellis

DF FitzGibbon

Ceylon, Europeans (IND) [both non first-class 1911-1912, 1910-1914]

WB Franklin †

Cambridge University, Minor Counties**, North, Gentlemen, MCC

Cardew, Squire and Ellis made a great many runs and took many wickets afterwards in good Club cricket.

FitzGibbon, a fine natural hitter, before going as a tea and rubber planter to Ceylon (where he was considered to be the best batsman),

made 269 for Hampstead vs West Herts. on a Saturday afternoon in 1910.

After the 1908 Summer Term, Sharp played for Leicestershire, Sale for Derbyshire, Greswell for Somerset, Altham for Surrey;

Vidler and Cardew were asked to play for Sussex and Somerset respectively, but were unable to accept.

C Toppin wrote in his Schools' Report in the 1909 Wisden: