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An exceptional picture of India's spectators as Pat Cummins celebrates the dismissal of Virat Kohli during theWorld Cup final, Ahmedabad, November 19th 2023. The detail of the reactions is worth a close look (Mahesh Kumar)
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An 11-year -old Joe Root receives an award as the best cricketer in his age group from Michael Vaughan (South West News Service)
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Ian Chappell arrives for a disciplinary hearing with Don Bradman sipping a beer and smoking a cigarette. It took place after the close of the final day of the South Australia v England tour match at Adelaide, December 6th 1979 ...
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Steve Waugh’s picture of children playing cricket among sand dunes near Osian in India was named Wisden's Cricket Photograph of the Year for 2021
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Steve Waugh (yes, that one) took this photo of children playing cricket among sand dunes near Osian, India in January 2020. It was named Wisden Cricket Photograph of the Year for 2020
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A brilliant catch, a Brilliant Patrick Eagar photograph ... Andrew Strauss catches Adam Gilchrist off Andrew Flintoff at Trent Bridge in 2005
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A final picture from July 21st 2005. I took this as I left the pavilion about 20 minutes after the close of the remarkable first day at Lord's ... Shane Warne relaxes with a cigarette on the Australian balcony
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An 19th century cricket ball showing the four seams used to sow together the four quarters ... more options for the bowlers or more confusion?!
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Chris Strickland's picture of players from Wooler Cricket Club look for a lost ball in a silage field in the Northumberland league was a runner up in the 2021 Wisden Photograph of the Year competition
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Hugh Jackman faces Shane Warne in the nets at the MCG, December 26th 2010
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Street cricket in Calcutta in 1970 (Life magazine)
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Brian Clough, who loved cricket, bowling at Lord's in a charity match in front of 8000 spectators in August 1975. Clough took 2 for 45 dismissing the great cricketing pair of Geoff Boycott and Clement Freud. With the bat he scored 13.
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A very happy birthday to the amazing Eileen Ash who turns 110 today. She made her England Test debut in 1937 and played seven Tests, the last in 1949. She worked for MI6 and rang the bell at Lord's before the 2017 Women's World Cup final
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A brilliant catch, a brilliant Patrick Eagar photograph ... Andrew Strauss catches Adam Gilchrist off Andrew Flintoff, 4th Test, Trent Bridge, August 27th 2005
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Fifteen-year-old Sachin Tendulkar receiving coaching from Kapil Dev
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Second place in Wisden's Cricket Photograph of the Year in 2021 was this amazing picture by Jed Leicester of a spectator watching a match at Lynton and Lynmouth CC in Devon. The stunning ground is situated in the centre of The Valley of Rocks, between two giant tors
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Brian Close in the dressing room after his courageous 70 in the 2nd Test v West Indies at Lord's, June 25th 1963. Close took England to brink of victory with a remarkable knock during which he took many blows as he walked down the pitch to Wes Hall and Charlie Griffith
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Children playing cricket in a London street, with their wicket drawn on a lamp post
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A 19th century cricket ball showing the three seams used to sow together the four quarters ... more options for the bowlers or more confusion?!
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Nasser Hussain may look dejected but he is just emotional after steering England to a dramatic series victory in the Stygian gloom at Karachi in 2000. England had not won a Test match in Pakistan since their first full tour in 1961-62. It was Pakistan's first loss in Karachi
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England's Gary Lineker on his way to 45* during the match between England's footballers and Mexico City CC in Mexico on June 1st 1985. England were in Mexico as part of their preparations for the following year's World Cup
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Sachin Tendulkar arriving at London Heathrow Airport in April 1992 on his way to join Yorkshire as their first overseas professional
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A Masai warrior leaps to bowl. This was one of a series which appeared in the Guardian (Francois Nel)
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Second place is Wisden's Cricket Photograph of the Year was this amazing picture by Jed Leicester of a spectator watching a match at Lynton and Lynmouth CC in Devon. The stunning ground is situated in the centre of The Valley of Rocks, between two giant tors
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A wonderful photo for so many reasons, hard to believe it is nine years ago ... Sachin Tendulkar prepares to walk out to resume his final Test innings, Mumbai, November 15th 2013 (Atul Kamble) MCC-Wisden Photograph of the Year 2013
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Dermot Reeve pads away a ball which pitches outside leg and throws away his bat Warwickshire v Hampshire, Edgasbton, May 20th 1996. He wanted to avoid a deflection onto his glove - a batsman can only be out caught off a glove if the bat is in the hand. He did this 15 times
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To date, this picture is the most viewed on the feed ... Nasser Hussain may look dejected but he is just emotional after steering England to a dramatic series victory in the Stygian gloom at Karachi in 2000. It was Pakistan's first loss at the ground
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An official attendance of 85,596 at the MCG on Boxing Day of the 3rd Australia-West Indies Test of 1975-76. Even so, this was a disappointment as it had been predicted 100,000 would be here but in the heat for some the beaches had more appeal (Patrick Eagar)
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To date, this picture is the most viewed on the feed ... Nasser Hussain may look dejected but he is just emotional after steering England to a dramatic series victory in the Stygian gloom at Karachi in 2000. It was Pakistan's first loss at the ground
#PakvsEng2022
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Devon Malcom, who is 60 today, walks off the pitch at The Oval after his remarkable 9 for 57 against South Africa in August 1994. His "you guys are history" quote after being struck on the head by a bouncer in England's second innings is cricket legend
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Stu Forster's picture of Alice Capsey bowling during The Hundred match between Northern Superchargers Women and Oval Invincibles Women at Headingley, July 31st 2021, was shortlisted in the 2021 Wisden Photograph of the Year competition
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A great catch, a great Patrick Eagar photograph ... Andrew Strauss catches Adam Gilchrist off Andrew Flintoff at Trent Bridge in 2005
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However many times you see it, the backdrop to Bamburgh Castle CC's pitch never grows boring ( Bradley Ormesher / The Times)
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Hollywood actress / singer Jayne Mansfield posing with a cricket bat. I have no idea why or when. Can anyone help?
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Children playing cricket in a London street in 1930 with their wicket drawn on a lamp post
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Don Bradman bounces the ball on his bat during a break in play on the first day of the 3rd Test at Leeds, July 11th 1930. Bradman closed the day on 309*
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Five-year-old
@StuartBroad8
walks across the Trent Bridge outfield with his father, England and Nottinghamshire opener
@ChrisBroad3
, before a county game in the summer of 1991
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Hard to believe this was 12 years ago today ... England's Graeme Swann leads the England team in a sprinkler dance after their innings victory in the 4th Test at the MCG, a result which saw them retain the Ashes. A late night for many back at home
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Sunil Gavaskar is congratulated by Jeff Dujon and Viv Richards on equalling Don Bradman's record of 29 Test hundreds, India v West Indies, Delhi, October 29th 1983. Gavaskar eventually finished his career with 34 Test centuries
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Harold Larwood and Bill Voce, the two Nottinghamshire fast bowlers at the centre of Bodyline almost 45 years earlier, are interviewed by the BBC's Peter West on the Trent Bridge outfield during the 3rd Ashes Test of 1977 (Patrick Eagar)
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Sad to hear of the passing of Rod Marsh, a keeper who was part of my formative years. This amazing catch to dismiss Tony Greig off Gary Gilmore in the 1975 Prudential World Cup semi-final was incredible and provided one of the great cricket photos (Patrick Eagar)
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Today is the 70th birthday of Joel Garner, the giant West Indies bowler. At 6'8" (2.03m) he was at the time the tallest Test bowler. In 58 Tests he took 259 wickets at 20.97. I took this picture on the Saturday of the 1984 Lord's Test
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Ian Bell unsuccessfully dives for safety in the 5th Ashes Test of 2013. In that series he scored 635 runs at 48.84 and overall in his 118 Tests he made 7727 runs at 42.69 (Greg Kirk/AFP)
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Gareth Copley's iconic picture of Ben Stokes celebrating hitting the winning runs in the incredible Leeds Test against Australia in 2019 was named the 2019 Wisden Cricket Photograph of the Year (Getty Images)
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The England squad played cricket during their training at the Bank of England ground in Roehampton on the eve of the 1966 World Cup final ...
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I remember watching this during the school holidays and it terrified me ... 47 years later and it still makes me wince, especially the bouncer from Michael Holding to Brian Close on 38 seconds, England v West Indies, 3rd Test, Old Trafford, July 10th 1976
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A postcard issued in 1930 showing how Don Bradman scored his world record 334 in that summer's Leeds Test
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When John Major resigned as PM in 1997 he famously headed to The Oval to watch some cricket. Boris Johnson may be interested to know Surrey are playing Yorkshire in the Vitality Blast at The Oval this evening starting at 6.30pm
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Muhammad Ali pictured in the pavilion at Lord's, May 1966 (Gordon Parks)
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One of cricket's great pictures and one that will be in many of tomorrow's newspapers ... Derek Underwood traps opener John Inverarity lbw to secure England's dramatic last-gasp win at The Oval, August 27th 1968 (Central Press)
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This is what English cricket is all about ... a village green, a pub, a lovely backdrop. The Red Lion provides an ideal place to watch cricket at Shamley Green in the Surrey Hills ... and just about to walk down there for a lunchtime pint now!
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Anthony Au-Yeung's photo of a flying Tatenda Taibu in action in a T20 international against New Zealand at Auckland on February 11th 2012 was the winner of the 2012 Wisden Photograph of the Year competition
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Shane Warne bowls for Hampshire in a beanie in bitterly cold weather v Kent at Canterbury, May 14th 2005 (Tom Shaw)
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A composite press photo of Chris Balderstone who on September 15th 1975 finished the day on 51* for Leicestershire at Chesterfield and that evening played for Doncaster v Brentford, returning to complete his hundred the next morning
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A lovely portrait of Bishan Bedi at Lord's during India's 1974 tour of England (Patrick Eagar). In 67 Tests he took 266 wickets at 28.71, and in all first-class cricket 1560 wickets at 21.69 but those stats only scratch the surface of a remarkable man as well great spin bowler
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England's
@GaryLineker
on his way to 45* during the match between England's footballers and Mexico City CC in Mexico on June 1st 1985
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An 11-year -old Joe Root receives an award as the best cricketer in his age group from Michael Vaughan (South West News Service)
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An unusual view of The Oval showing painters high on Gasometer No.1 during the 1931 New Zealand Test. Originally New Zealand has been given only one Test but "their good form and sportsmanship" led to extra games being added at The Oval and Old Trafford
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Ricky Ponting is run out by a direct hit from substitute Gary Pratt, 4th Ashes Test, Trent Bridge, August 27th 2005. Ponting was livid that Pratt was on the field for Simon Jones, one paper saying it like "swapping a Skoda for a Rolls Royce" (Rui Vieira)
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Mick Jagger watches the Ashes Test from the pavilion at The Oval in August 1972 almost unnoticed. The Stones were, at the time, one of the biggest bands in the world but the cult of celebrity had not reached the stage where he could no longer do this without being mobbed
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Sorry to see that Moeen Ali has retired from Test cricket ... incredible career record but still underrated by too many. Here's the first picture I took of him, playing for England U19 against India at Cardiff in 2006 after he caught Sumit Sharma off Steven Finn
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I can remember on this day 25 years ago dying so many deaths as
@Athersmike
and
@jackrussellart
battled for the last two session of the Johannesburg Test to save the game. Atherton finished 185* in 643 minutes while Russell doggedly made a 235-ball 29. Test cricket at its best
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In the days before TV or even radio coverage of Test cricket, keeping up with the score was difficult. In July 1934 these holidaymakers on the Isle of Wight followed play from Old Trafford on a giant scoreboard on the pier. Similar scenes were common across the country
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Viv Richards almost never wore a helmet but in most photographs of him batting he is wearing a cap (usually at a jaunty angle). In this one by Ken Kelly he is bareheaded
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A press photo from 1981 of 15-year-old twins Mark and Steve Waugh at Sefton's Jensen Park in New South Wales
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A picture I took of Malcolm Marshall bustling in from the Nursery End in the opening overs of the 1983 World Cup final
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An unusual game between Clowns and Ladies at Ramsgate in Kent in 1918
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Somehow struggling to picture Boris Johnson walking if he got a thin edge behind. Or even a massive edge to fourth slip come to that ... (Rex Features)
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Watching the cricket on TV with my wife, she asked why Old Trafford "looks so ugly". I explained it wasn't always the case ... on the left the pavilion in 1905, on the right the same building today
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A Quantas jet takes off behind the ground at Queenstown in Otago during a match between New Zealand and Sri Lanka
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Hard to believe this was 24 years ago today ...
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Boys play cricket on the roof of a Kennington housing block while others look towards The Oval in the distance where Len Hutton was moving towards his world record innings of 364 in the 5th Test v Australia, August 1938
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Steve Waugh’s picture of children playing cricket among sand dunes near Osian in India has been named Wisden's Cricket Photograph of the Year for 2021
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Drinks for the England side during the 5th and final Test at The Oval in August 1926. No water carrier in a high-vis jacket sprinting on every five minutes, not even a blazered 12th man, but a waiter in full black tie. Standards
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Audrey Hepburn larks about with some cricket on the beach during a break from filming Stanley Donen's 1967 'Two for the Road' (Terry O'Neill)
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Kylie Minogue in a cricket promotion ...
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A brilliant photo by Adrian Murrell of a brilliant catch ... Jonty Rhodes catches Robert Croft during an Emirates Trophy match at Edgbaston, August 18th 1998
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New Zealand captain Kane Williamson speaks to his team on the third day of the 2019 Boxing Day Test at the MCG. Scott Barbour's fisheye picture was shortlisted for the 2020 MCC Wisden Photograph of the Year
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England's Gary Lineker on his way to 45* during the match between England's footballers and Mexico City CC in Mexico on June 1st 1985. England were in Mexico as part of their preparations for the following year's World Cup
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A fantastic day for cricket in general and Test cricket especially. Two amazing matches on two continents should remind even the greedy ICC and major boards that this format not only has a future but is vital to the game.
#INDvENG
(BBC/Getty)
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The Queen - at the time still Princess Elizabeth - watches a game of cricket alongside Prince Phillip at Windsor in June 1948
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Thankfully the dullness of the Ashes is over and we can get down to the serious business, the one the ECB knows we all want to see ... The Hundred! (Stu Forster)
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Young boys playing cricket up against a wall, taken around 1940
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A wonderful aerial view of The Oval during the 1921 Ashes Test. The playing area uses almost all available space with boundaries pushed back to the perimeter. The long boundary at the Vauxhall End meant that all-run fives were not uncommon
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A touch of class ... Herbert Sutcliffe sips a glass of champagne bought for him by Surrey members in the pavilion at The Oval and served by a waiter on reaching 150 against Australia in the 5th Ashes Test of 1926. He was out off the final ball of the day for 163
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A wonderful photograph by the brilliant Herbert Fishwick of the crowd at the Adelaide Oval in January 1933 now part of the Australian National Library. The detail in the picture is amazing as it was shot on a glass plate negative rather than film
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Two lone spectators sit on the deserted Western Terrace on the washed out Saturday of the 1956 Leeds Ashes Test
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Philip Brown's picture of Mohammad Sarfraz playing cricket near Jinnah International Airport, Karachi in December was shortlisted in the 2022 Wisden Photograph of the Year competition. For me this should have won ...
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Scott Barbour's picture of England celebrating the dismissal of Brad Haddin at Adelaide in 2010 was the winner of the Wisden Cricket Photograph of the Year in 2010
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The Ukraine Cricket Federation ground - the Trudovi Rezervy Stadium - in Kharkiv which was opened in 2021. Our thoughts are with all residents of the city (and of Ukraine) which is currently under attack from Russian forces
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I took this as I left the pavilion about 20 minutes after the close of the remarkable first day of the 1st Test at Lord's on July 21st 2005. Shane Warne relaxes with a cigarette on the Australian balcony
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Don Bradman receives a telegram during play in the Australians' opening tour match at Worcester, May 1st 1938. Such interruptions were not uncommon. Lionel Tennyson while captain of Hampshire used telegrams to give his batsmen instructions during games!
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Michael Parkinson bowling in a charity match at Edgbaston in 1980. A lifelong cricket obsessive, he wrote several books and many newspaper columns about the game and its characters. As a teenager he opened the batting for Barnsley CC with Dickie Bird
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Courtney Walsh and Sachin Tendulkar exchange teams at the toss before the 2nd West Indies v India Test at Port of Spain in March 1997. I had tickets for the first four days of the following Test in Antigua ... and days 1-3 were rained off ... but every day was a party!
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A Qantas jet takes off behind the ground at Queenstown in Otago during a match between New Zealand and Sri Lanka in 2005
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Eighteen-year-olds Nasser Hussain and Michael Atherton pose with the England Under-19 side at Bisham Abbey prior to the tour of Sri Lanka in January 1987. Atherton's Test debut came in 1989, Hussain's a few months later in the Caribbean
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