19 August 1925: The Surrey batsman achieves his lifelong ambition, surpassing the long-preserved record of the grand old man of the summer game The name of Dr WG Grace no longer attaches to that particular cricket record respecting innings of a hundred and over, for batting a second time against Somerset , at Taunton yesterday, JB Hobbs scored his 127th three-figure innings. Thus almost within 24 hours the great Surrey ba
