Sir Leonard Hutton

Sir Leonard Hutton (23rd June 1916 - 6th September 1990) was an English cricketer, who dominated the national and international cricket scene for the decade after the Second World War.
He made his first class debut for Yorkshire in 1934 at the age of 17; in 14 championship matches that season he scored five fifties and his maiden first class century.

Hutton made his Test match debut against New Zealand in 1937 and hit his first Test century at Old Trafford in only his second Test. A year later he was to break Wally Hammond's record for the highest individual score in Test matches with 364, which remains the highest Test innings by an Englishman.

In 1952 he was appointed as England's first professional captain for 65 years. Many people in cricket's establishment were against this break with tradition but Hutton simply got on with the job. Yorkshire were still captained by an amateur and he never captained his county as a result.