Fred Titmus
Frederick John Titmus MBE was an English cricketer, whose firstclass career spanned five decades. He was the fourth man after W.G. Grace, Wilfred Rhodes and George Hirst to take 2,500 wickets and make 20,000 runs in first class cricket. Although he was best known for his off spin , he was an accomplished lowerorder batsman who deserved to be called an allrounder, even opening the batting for England on six occasions. Outside of cricket, Titmus was also an able footballer at one stage he was contracted to Watford as a professional, having earlier played for Chelsea as a junior.
Titmus published his first autobiography Talk of the Double in 1964. In it he revealed that he was born in Somers Town and that his family moved to Kentish Town in 1939. In his second autobiography, My Life in Cricket published in 2005, he was rather more forthright in his views of former playing colleagues, and depicted five decades of his playing career with passion.
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