Denis Compton
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Denis Compton played Test cricket for England as one of its greatest batsmen while also playing professional football for Arsenal, winning the league title in 1948 and the FA Cup in 1950. The two seasons overlapped awkwardly, and a football knee injury eventually hampered his cricket. In the summer of 1947 he scored a record 3,816 first-class runs, a figure no one has beaten.
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