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 ...

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 ...

According to a fascinating and highly relevant biography of Close, titled “One Hell of a Life – Brian Close, Daring, Defiant and Daft” by Stephen Chalke, it was not so much his Test debut ...

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 ...

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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 ...