Editing Len Hutton (section)

===Test match debut===
After Hutton began 1937 with a series of high scores<ref name=figures/>—including an innings of 271 against [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club|Derbyshire]], the reigning County Champions, and 153 against [[Leicestershire County Cricket Club|Leicestershire]] two days later when he and Sutcliffe shared a 315-run opening partnership<ref>Howat, pp. 27–29.</ref>—he was chosen to play for England against New Zealand in the first Test match of the season.<ref>Howat, pp. 28–29.</ref> On 26 June, he made his Test debut at [[Lord's Cricket Ground]], scoring 0 and 1.<ref name=inns>{{cite web| url = http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/14334.html?class=1;template=results;type=batting;view=innings| title = Statsguru: L Hutton Test matches (innings by innings list)| publisher = ESPNcricinfo| access-date = 30 July 2010| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110811034806/http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/14334.html?class=1%3Btemplate%3Dresults%3Btype%3Dbatting%3Bview%3Dinnings| archive-date = 11 August 2011}}</ref> Retaining his place in the England team after scoring centuries for Yorkshire in the following games, he scored his maiden Test hundred on 24 July in the second Test at [[Old Trafford Cricket Ground|Old Trafford, Manchester]]. He batted for three-and-a-half hours to score exactly 100 runs and shared a century opening partnership with [[Charlie Barnett (cricketer)|Charlie Barnett]].<ref name=figures/><ref>{{cite web| url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/16/16317.html| title = England v New Zealand in 1937| publisher = CricketArchive| access-date =28 April 2010}}</ref> Hutton's remaining two innings in the Test series yielded 14 and 12, giving him 127 runs at an average of 25.40.<ref name=inns/><ref name=tbat>{{cite web| url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/694/t_Batting_by_Season.html| title = Test Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Len Hutton| publisher = CricketArchive| access-date =28 April 2010}}</ref> Also in 1937, Hutton made his first appearance for [[Gentlemen v Players|the Players against the Gentlemen]] at Lord's.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/16/16293.html| title = Gentlemen v Players in 1937| publisher = CricketArchive| access-date =10 June 2010}}</ref> In total that year he scored 2,888 runs, more than double his previous seasonal best, at an average of 56.62 and including ten centuries.<ref name=fcbatting/> He also recorded the best bowling performance of his career, six wickets for 76 against Leicestershire, altogether taking ten wickets in the match—the only time he achieved this.<ref name=figures/> His performances that year earned him selection as one of ''Wisden's'' [[Wisden Cricketers of the Year|Cricketers of the Year]]. The citation praised his attitude, technique, fielding and bowling, noting however that some commentators continued to criticise his overcaution.<ref name=coy>{{cite web| url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/154653.html| title = Len Hutton (Cricketer of the Year 1938)| work = Wisden Cricketers' Almanack| year = 1938| publisher = John Wisden & Co | location = London | access-date =3 May 2010}}</ref>

In early matches of the 1938 season, with an [[the Ashes|Ashes]] series against Australia pending, Hutton made three centuries and scored 93 not out.<ref name=figures/> Selected for a Test trial, he shared a century opening partnership with [[Bill Edrich]],<ref name=figures/><ref>Howat, pp. 32–33.</ref> and was selected for the first Test at [[Trent Bridge]] in Nottingham beginning on 28 June.<ref name=inns/> In just over three hours, Hutton scored 100 from 221 [[Delivery (cricket)|deliveries]] on his Ashes debut, adding 219 with [[Charlie Barnett (cricketer)|Charlie Barnett]] for the first wicket. England, in [[Wally Hammond]]'s first match as Test captain, posted a total of 658 for eight wickets, but the match was drawn.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/16/16611.html| title = England v Australia in 1938| publisher = CricketArchive| access-date =3 May 2010}}</ref> Hutton failed in the second Test, with two single figure scores in another drawn game.<ref name=figures/> He was generally unsuccessful with the bat in the following weeks, during which the third Test was entirely rained off. Following a sequence of low scores for Yorkshire, Hutton's finger was broken in a match against Middlesex played on a dangerous pitch at Lord's.<ref name=figures/><ref name=H34-5/> Consequently, he could not play in the fourth Test, played at his home ground, Headingley, in which England were soundly beaten.<ref name=H34-5>Howat, pp. 34–35.</ref> After missing a month of cricket, Hutton played just two games before his selection for the final Test of the series.<ref name=figures/><ref>Howat, p. 35.</ref>