The Infamous Mike Gatting and Shakoor Rana Incident
The Infamous Mike Gatting and Shakoor Rana Incident - England team arrived in the middle of October 2000 for a tour of Pakistan. It was the first since the Mike Gatting famous brawl with umpire Shakoor Rana during the...
Alan Ward – Fast Bowler Made a Perfect Foil for John Snow
Alan Ward would have made a perfect foil for John Snow had he been a faster right-arm bowler during his era. Derbyshire, Border, and Leicestershire Not many very tall fast bowlers have survived for long in top-class cricket, and...
Fred Tate – England Cricketer Who Played Solitary Test in 1902
Fred Tate - England Cricketer Who Played Solitary Test in 1902. On Saturday morning there was more rain, causing the wicket to deteriorate so that England was apprehensive about scoring the 124 runs they needed for victory. The 50...
Alf Gover England Medium Fast Bowler 1908-2001
Longevity was the keyword when it comes to Alf Gover, who died at the age of 93. Thus wrote Ralph Dellor on the website Cricinfo. Born in 1908 on February 29 near Epsom in Surrey, he was one of...
Frank Woolley – A Genuine All Rounder of Early 19th Century
First of all, the name of the player concerned was Frank Edward Woolley and not 'Peter' Woolley. Secondly, he never captained England in Test matches. However, Frank Woolley was one of the finest all- rounder’s, a left-hand batsman and...
The Sergeant David Steele
Sergeant David Steele - The situation was one of those romantic ones which occur in sport by chance but never by design. England and all her established players were foundering in the face of Australian fire. Fletcher, Dennis Amiss,...
Len Hutton – Finest, Most Technically Correct Batsman
There was a heroic dimension to Len Hutton career that was not always evident even with some of England’s other very great batsmen. He had talent in abundance, all right. How else could he have scored a century on...
Cricket – A Simple Pleasure by Ted Dexter
Cricket is a simple pleasure. Or so it should be, says Ted Dexter, who regrets the ritualization which has overtaken the game at the top level. Going to a cricket match should be a simple pleasure like taking a...
How to Crick your Neck?
How to Crick your Neck? - Ted Dexter takes issue with what he considers a foolish piece of advice to batsmen. The age-old argument about coaching — too little or too much — remains unresolved. Certainly, there have been...
Sydney Barnes – Greatest Bowler of All Time
Sydney Barnes was by common consent the greatest bowler to appear before the First World War. Many good judges long after that still maintained there had never been better, and it is not hard to see why. Barnes’s record...
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Paul Gibb in India
Paul Gibb touring India with the 1953-54 commonwealth teams is playing more golf and squash than cricket. But he goes on recording the antics...
