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Someone with more time and patience than I possess has calculated who has scored the most (first class) runs and taken the most wickets at Edgbaston.
Any guesses as to the identities of the two players?

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Dennis Amiss and Eric Hollies perhaps.

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W G Quaife
Eric Hollies

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UrsaMinor - yes, you've called it right.
W. G. Quaife 16891 runs at 40.02 and Eric Hollies 1048 wickets at 19.28.
If OH-D plays for another 20 years, he could just overtake Eric Hollies.

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If I were being facetious (moi?), I'd ask how long it would take Danny Briggs but I know it's a different game now.
The length of Quaiffe's career is legendary and, back then, it would have been six days a week. I wonder what his strike rate was?

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As for Quaife's strike rate, it's difficult to work out because everything was judged on time rather than balls bowled in his day.
BUT - looking at his famous last innings at Edgbaston v Derbyshire in 1928 when he scored a century (and was aged 56!), Wisden says that he batted 4 hours and 20 minutes for his 115. Looking at the number of overs bowled and assuming that he had about half of the strike, I reckon he scored at around 41 runs per hundred balls, slow by present day standards but not bad for his age!