Johnny Briggs, Lancashire’s Popular 19th Century Hero
| November 22, 2021
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
| May 20, 2018
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
| November 20, 2017
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 …
| October 22, 2017
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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