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“Many a time when Trumper was batting and the team was in a safe position some player in the dressing room would call out ‘Vic’s 95, or 96 … Who’s in next?’”
I had a great chuckle when I first came across this remark which sounds like a good old-fashioned yarn and not something to be taken seriously.
As a matter of fact I have investigated the claim and discovered that it is not apocryphal. Australian wicketkeeper Hanson Carter made the remark in the vicinity of a young and impressionable Warren Bardsley, who recalled the event 20 years later in his memoirs.