What they said

It is easy to belittle his record score–the perfect Oval wicket… the 13 hours it took. It is like Paradise Lost–easy enough to criticise, but still, when the critics have said their worst, a stupendous work R. L. Arrowsmith How many’d this plurry fella make if he was batting in daytime? Aboriginal in the Australian outback listening to a nighttime radio broadcast of Hutton’s innings We were different characters, but very good friends, and he was the greatest opening batsman I have ever seen… His powers of concentration were remarkable, but when he wanted to be he was one of the best strokemakers in the game Denis Compton