Michael Vaughan: I will remember Brian Close as an inspiring figure at Yorkshire - and a captain I would have loved to have played under. UK News Website of the Year 2024. News ...

Close had the courage to deliberately fend off bouncers from the fearsome West Indies pacemen with his chest. ... England's Brian Close is pictured batting in a game in 1976.

Brian Close was the bravest man to ever play cricket. Yorkshire great, who has died aged 84 after a battle with cancer, was renowned for his ferocious battles with West Indies' great fast bowlers ...

Brian Close was an absolute one-off. There’s never been a bigger cricketing character. We played against each other many times. I was batting for Lancashire and he was captain of Yorkshire in my ...

It was Brian Close's character and presence, rather than his playing record, that made him successful. Brilliant England cricketer Brian Close was never straightforward.

Brian Close, the only England captain to be sacked for time-wasting in a county game, ... “When he was batting with John Edrich at Old Trafford on that Saturday evening, ...

Brian Close remains the man we remember as the bald, middle-aged, left-handed soldier; pushing the frontiers of bravery till it encroached into the realm of recklessness. We remember him for going ...

Brian Close, renowned as one of England's bravest-ever cricketers, has died at the age of 84. ... Close was renowned for his bravery when batting and in the field.

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, batting ...

MICHAEL HENDERSON: In the long, proud history of English cricket, there was never a man quite like Brian Close, who died on Sunday at the age of 84.

LONDON: Former England captains Ian Botham and Michael Vaughan have led the tributes to Brian Close after the hard man of cricket died from lung cancer at the age of 84. Yorkshireman Close was the ...