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become one of the leading bowlers of the day, finishing with 123 wickets and in the top ten of the national averages. Dennett relied on gentle spin, accuracy of length and a quick but very easy and rhythmic arm action. He would usually bowl on off stump and turn away, relying on variations of flight, his considerable bounce, and his off-side fieldsmen for his wickets.
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was dropped after having been no-balled for throwing. In his first season, despite exceptionally helpful pitches due to a very wet summer, Dennett fared poorly until August when he aided the veteran
Roberts in Gloucestershire’s only three wins of the season. However, in 1904, Dennett rose rapidly to
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was preferred to him in the Tests, and had been regarded as the superior bowler even when
Dennett took over seventy wickets in the August of the dry 1906 summer. That year, Dennett achieved the rare feat of taking all ten wickets in an innings on a difficult pitch against
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for 12 runs at
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took more wickets without being capped. Owing to the strength of the competition at the time, Dennett was never able to progress even to lower representative levels. Dennett also failed to be nominated as a
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during the war and was obliged to remain there with his regiment when county cricket resumed in 1919. Although much was expected when he returned to
England for
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Throughout the period from 1904 to 1914, Dennett never failed to take 100 wickets for
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An all-round sportsman, he also excelled at soccer, fives, billiards and shooting. In retirement, his health soon deteriorated. He died at
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Dennett accomplished some amazing feats. The most famous of these was when he took eight wickets for three runs in 25 balls to dismiss
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Born on 27 April 1879, Dennett began his cricket career in
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in the early 1930s. Their dependence was such that
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