Brian Close is arguably one of the men best placed ... but you sense it was that bowling whirlwind of a Windies team: "They were the nastiest bowling side." Close almost winces at the memory.

Yorkshire great, who has died aged 84 after a battle with cancer, was renowned for his ferocious battles with West Indies' great fast bowlers of the 1970s Brian Close, the former Yorkshire and ...

More stories have been told about Brian Close, or to be precise his eccentricities, than probably any postwar cricketer except maybe his fellow-Yorkshireman Fred Trueman. Close's courage ...

OF the so-called Four Greatest Living Yorkshiremen (Fred Trueman, Brian Close, Raymond Illingworth and Geoffrey Boycott), only one of whom (Boycott) is actually still living, I always found Close ...

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Brian Close: Former England and Yorkshire captain dies, aged 84 Former England, Yorkshire and Somerset captain Brian Close has died, aged 84. The Yorkshireman is the youngest player to have won a ...

Speaking in an earlier interview, Mrs Close said she did not see her husband as a famous cricketer, he was "just Brian". "I see him as my husband, the father of my children, someone who could be ...

Among those paying tribute to former Yorkshire and England captain Brian Close, who has died at the age of 84 after a period of ill-health, was commentator John Helm, a friend and neighbour in ...