Brian Close, the only England captain to be sacked ... never better illustrated than his recall at the age of 45 against a ferocious Windies pace artillery including Michael Holding, Andy Roberts ...

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For true, proper fans of cricket, the name Brian Close will perhaps be synonymous with the Old Trafford Test of 1976 when, at the age of 45, the recalled England batsman was made to weather a ...

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.

London, May 19(ANI): Legendary England batsman Brian Close has said the current West Indies bowling attack doesn't possess the petrifying element which they possessed during his playing days, 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 ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI: Brian Lara, the iconic West Indian batsman, expressed his opinion that the challenges faced by the West Indies team in Test cricket cannot be solely attributed to financial factors.

“I was told not to ask, and so I just kept Brian close, kept him home and safe, and didn’t talk to him about anything and hoped for the best,” she said. When asked what she thought her son ...

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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 ...