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On this day: March 21 1968: Colin Cowdrey, the quiet perfectionist
Much credit will go to Colin Cowdrey for the brightness his team's performance brought to a Britain which was not exactly jingling its coins in its pockets. It is fair that he should take the praise for he bore harsh, and not entirely objective, criticism when he was appointed captain of the team for the West Indies. As a batsman he was a prodigy: at 13 years old, the youngest player to appear in a public schools match at Lords, he scored 75 (out of 156) and 44 (out of 175) for Tonbridge and then, in the second innings of Clifton, took five wickets with leg-breaks to win the match by two runs. There has been no more completely gifted batsman since Hammond. As a captain, he proved a slow developer.
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On this day: April 17 1970: Why I'm off the air
Jack Plimsoll, the manager of this touring team, was an intimate friend of mine on the South African tour of England in 1947, before the election of the first - Malan - Nationalist Government and the introduction of apartheid. Every South African [player] of my acquaintance has already played with, and against, non-white cricketers. Only a multi-racial match before the Vorster (Verwoerd) Government banned such fixtures for ever, provided the expert assessment of Basil D'Oliveira's ability which enabled me to persuade Middleton to give him a contract to play in England. Not all South Africans are pro-apartheid
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Obituary: Fred Trueman: Fiery Yorkshire and England fast bowler with a caustic wit and colourful style
In 1952, he was chosen for the first Test against India. After three series of heavy defeats at the hands of Australia - notably delivered by Lindwall and Miller - all cricketing England longed for a fast bowler capable of hitting back. When his luck was in, Trueman had a fine sense of occasion; now he made his Test debut under England's new Yorkshire professional captain, Len Hutton. Sure enough, on Test match Saturday at Headingley, he took three of the first four wickets to reduce India to the unique Test score of none for four. As a bowler he was capable of a deadly late outswinger, of a varied pace approaching the highest, and of a terrifying, well- concealed bouncer which, when riled, he tended to bowl too often. In 1964, he virtually threw away the Third Test at Headingley against Australia when he bowled bouncers to Peter Burge, who hooked him savagely in an innings of 160. The match was lost, and the rubber, too. Trueman was dropped from the next Test, at Manchester, but was recalled for the Oval. He became the first bowler to take 300 wickets in Test cricket, but he could not save the series.
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Observer Sport Monthly: OSM Back flick: Nostalgia
The major decision of the Advisory County Cricket Committee - that the counties should play a one-day match knockout competition in 1963 - seems to be a concession to a great weight of public opinion, some of it inspired by enthusiastic but non-expert ideas. It is hard to believe that the legislators expect the innovation to make any real difference to the standing or the finances of first-class cricket. To make fixture space for the new tournament, all the counties will play 28 championship matches in the season, which is fairer than the variation between 28 and 32, but still falls short of the ideal championship in which each team plays every other twice. So, by comparison with 1961 and 1962 the championship programme will be reduced by a total of 48 days with 15 days of knock-out cricket - assuming a first round of eight matches - in their place. Among the eight counties who will play four fewer three-day games, those knocked out in the first round will lose five or six days of home match gates, which could cost some of the clubs more money than they can afford. The one-day guaranteed result (weather permitting) may prove a novelty attraction.
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