Arthur Milton:
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Milton, who died in 2007 at the age of 79, was blond and slight, was the last of a rare breed of players who double cricket and football at an international stage. In his first Test, against New Zealand at Headingley in 1958 Milton opening the innings with a rugby cap holder Mike Smith was unbeaten on 104. This innings earned him a place following winter tour of Australia, where the opposition was more fierce than the shoddy New Zealanders, and Milton struggled. Milton finished his six-Test career with 2004 runs at 25.50. He was happier batting for Gloucestershire, which he did until he was in his mid-forties. He retired in 1974 with more 32,000 runs and 56 hundred in first-class cricket. He scored most of the runs batting at top order. He was also an acrobatic fielder as he took 758 catches at short.
He was a very fit man so he also played domestic football for Arsenal between 1951 and 1955, and then for a brief period for Bristol City. He played one match for England in 1951, against Austria at Wembley.