How to Achieve Greatness in three Balls
There is something magnificent, isn’t there, about a hat trick? It seems to be (although in truth, on reflection, it…
Continue Reading...FLAT JACK
Cricket has produced many great characters over the years, larger-than-life personalities who made their indelible mark on the cricket field….
Continue Reading...DEADLY: DEREK UNDERWOOD
I don’t know if a special comet or star appeared the night Derek Underwood was born, but, if not, it…
Continue Reading...Johnny Briggs, Lancashire’s Popular 19th Century Hero
Was ever a cricketer more loved than Johnny Briggs? There may, I suppose, have been a few, but at his…
Continue Reading...Verity: In Truth a Great Left-Arm Spinner
Hedley Verity was killed in Italy in 1943 during the fierce struggle between the Allies and the Nazis for control…
Continue Reading...Fazal Mahmood – One of Pakistan’s Greats
The first non-English bowler to excite my attention (it was after all the era of Trueman and Statham) watching test…
Continue Reading...Cricket v Baseball, England v USA …
One of the world’s great puzzles is why the Americans abandoned the great game of cricket to play the inferior…
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