Godfrey Evans

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Godfrey Evans England (ENG)

Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Legbreak
	Tests	First-class
Matches	91	465
Runs scored	2439	14882
Batting average	20.49	21.22
100s/50s	2/8	7/62
Top score	104	144
Balls bowled	-	286
Wickets	-	2
Bowling average	-	122.50
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	-
Best bowling	-	2/50
Catches/stumpings	173/46	816/250
Test debut: 17 August 1946 Last Test: 18 June 1959 Source: [1]

Thomas Godfrey Evans CBE (August 18, 1920 – May 3, 1999) was an English cricketer who played for Kent and England.

Described by Wisden as 'arguably the best wicket-keeper the game has ever seen', Evans collected 219 dismissals in 91 Test match appearances between 1946 and 1959 and a further 1066 in first-class matches for Kent. En route he was the first wicket keeper to reach 200 Test dismissals and the first Englishman to reach both 1000 runs and 100 dismissals and 2000 runs and 200 dismissals in Test cricket. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1951.

After his retirement from professional cricket Evans became a cricket expert for bookmakers Ladbrokes, famously offering odds of 500 to 1 on an England victory against Australia at Headingley in 1981, the match in which Ian Botham and Bob Willis fought back from following-on at 227 runs behind to achieve a memorably improbable victory.