Cricinfo Bio - It is essentially as a county bowler that Freeman will be remembered, for though he played 12 times for England he rarely produced his best when not playing for Kent. Seventeen times he took 100 wickets in a season (a record exceeded only by Wilfred Rhodes) and in each of eight consecutive seasons -1928 to 1935 - he took over 200 wickets. His total aggregate in this period was 2,090. He is the only bowler in history to capture 300 wickets in one season, dismissing the phenomenal number of 304 batsmen (at 18.05 each) in the dry summer of 1928. Five years later his season's tally was 298. His records are legion-the result of amazing consistency and mastery of his craft. No other bowler has three times taken all ten wickets in a first-class innings, and no other bowler has twice taken 17 wickets in a championship match: in the course of one of these latter achievements against Sussex at Hove in 1922-he had the remarkable analysis of 9 for 11 in the first innings, actually taking all 9 wickets in 47 balls for 7 runs. The succession of prodigious bowling feats that characterised his career placed him behind only Wilfred Rhodes as the greatest wicket-taker in the first-class game: Freeman's final aggregate in a career which stretched from 1914 to 1936 was 3,776 at an average of 18.42.