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Full name Graham Webb
Born Woking, Surrey, October 2, 1960
Nickname Webby
Batting style Right-hand lower-order
Bowling style Left-arm slow
Height 6 ft 1 in
Clubs Blackheath
School XI 1978
OC Career 1978-

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat		Inns		NO		HS		Runs		Ave		50		100		Ct		St
OCCC	84		34		13		55		317		15.10		1		0		28		0

Bowling averages

	Overs		Mdns		Runs		Wkts		Ave		Best		5WI		SR		Econ
OCCC	1008.3		267		3084		184		16.76		8-60		12		32.9		3.1

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Had he not chosen to play the bulk of his club cricket for Blackheath then it is likely that Graham would have been challenging Michael Chetwode's record as the club's leading wicket taker.

Almost certainly the best spinner produced by the school in the last 40 years, unlike most of those he played with, Graham got on with the job in hand in a quiet and undemonstrative manner, allying spin and bounce. His off days could be counted on one hand, and even when wicketless he was rarely bettered by batsmen. His only flaw was a transparent quicker ball which almost always flew down the leg side and often resulted in byes and a few tuts from Peter Shelley. Playing the bulk of his cricket in a winning side, his opportunities with the bat were limited but he showed enough to suggest he could have been a useful tailender had the need arisen. In the field he was a solid close catcher, a popular man at gully not only for his dry humour but also because it banished Mike Chase to the deep.His appearance, like that of Dorian Gray, never altered and there were disbelieving snorts when almost 30 years after leaving Cranleigh he claimed he no longer fitted into the same sized whites he wore in the 1st XI. If only those trousers had turned out more often.

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