Former England cricket captain Sir Leonard Hutton dies at the age of 74. He collapsed at his home and taken to a hospital at Kingston-upon-Thames, near London, where he underwent a heart operation. Hutton hit 129 first-class centuries after first representing Yorkshire Cricket Club in 1934. In 1938 he scored 364 against Australia at the Oval, the highest Test match score by an England batsman. In his day he was a national hero, revered as one of the most famous men in England. Hutton, whose cricket career spanned 22 years before and after the Second World War, suffered a rupture to the aorta, the main artery leading from the heart. His first Test match for England was against New Zealand in 1937 when he scored a duck. Hutton was knighted in 1956 “for services to cricket”. He scored a duck in his first match for Yorkshire in 1934 but went on to score 40,140 runs in first class cricket at an average of 55.51. In Test matches he amassed 6,971 runs at an average of 56.67.
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