Why the club’s decision to rename the Lambeth Hall to Douglas Jardine Suite indicates that the wound is on its way to healing.
Jardine was also the Surrey skipper.
The Bodyline series of 1932-33 was a harrowing experience for one Gilbert Mant
Modern cricket, however, is all about cut-throat competition and dogfights.
After Bill Woodfull, Bert Oldfield and other batsmen were battered and bruised, ABC sent a cable to lodge its protest to MCC.
Douglas Jardine was not even there when Bodyline was unleashed for the first time!
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Several cricketers have brought disrepute to the game by using illegal and unfair practices in the sport which should be actually based on honesty, uprightness and integrity, former Indian captain Bishan Singh Bedi said at chennai on Saturday.
May 16, 1996. Start of the county game between Warwickshire and Hampshire that saw some bizarre tactics on the final day. Arunabha Sengupta looks back at the ploy of throwing the bat used by Dermot Reeve which resulted in a rule change.
Despite running a temperature of 102°F, Eddie Paynter got up from his hospital bed, took a taxi to the ground, got into the dressing room in his pyjamas, changed into his cricketing whites and proceeded to score 83.