Article: Hick the run machine calls time on career

AN ERA in English cricket ended yesterday when Graeme Hick, the most prolific run scorer of the past 25 years, announced that he will retire at the end of this season.

In top-flight cricket Hick, 42, has to date plundered 64,358 runs off the world's finest bowlers, an aggregate that makes him the second-highest run scorer, behind Graham Gooch on 67,057, in the history of the game.

In first-class cricket, in which his average is 52.23, only seven batsmen have scored more centuries than Hick, who sits on 136, and should the 42 he struck in limited-over cricket be added to his tally, he would rise to second behind Jack Hobbs on 197.

Hick found scoring runs in Test cricket a far sterner ...

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