00:00This keeper outperformed every single bowler on his team and he did it wearing his wicket-keeping pads.
00:061884, Australia vs England.
00:08Day 1, Australia post 362 for 2, England's captain is panicking.
00:12He rotates through 11 different bowlers in a single day.
00:15One of them is Alfred Littletown, the wicket-keeper.
00:18Never taken a first-class wicket in his life, gets smashed for 11 runs with zero wickets.
00:23Day 2, they call on him again.
00:26This time, he switches to underarm lobs.
00:28Slow, loopy, almost embarrassing.
00:30Legal at the time, but nobody bowled them seriously.
00:34And somehow, 4 wickets for 19 runs.
00:36The only wickets he ever took in first-class cricket.
00:40Oh, and while he was bowling, he handed his gloves to WG Grace,
00:44the greatest ridder alive, standing behind the stumps,
00:47while Littleton, still in his keeping pads, casually dismantled Australia's batting line-up.
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