Elmo Rodrigopulle, writing in the Sunday Observer, says Neville Casiechetty and Ranil Abeynaike were outstanding cricketers who excelled in different eras. Neville showed his prowess with the bat in the early and mid fifties. He learnt his cricket, like did most Bens by first playing softball cricket at the St.Lucia’s Cathedral Square. From there he graduated to the first team at St. Benedict’s , and what a batsman he turned out to be. He was the quintissential batsman that spectators yearned to see. And he seldom let them down. Ranil…
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The Economist looks at the life of Basil D’Oliveira, and the enormous support he received from fans after being dropped for the 1968 tour to South Africa. He received so many letters that the post office had to employ separate staff to just to deal with them. Soon attention was focused on England’s scheduled tour of South Africa in 1968-69. Mr D’Oliveira was desperate to return to his homeland. He was a hero among the country’s blacks and coloureds and wanted to prove that he rightfully belonged on the cricket…
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Lawrence Booth in the Daily Mail writes that Trevor Bailey will always be remembered as a man steeped in cricket; a dry but but gentlemanly reminder of another age. Known as Barnacle for his refusal to take risks at the crease – his 68 in 458 minutes at Brisbane in 1958 has pride of place in Wisden’s table of ’slowest individual batting’ – he could be equally cautious in the commentary box. When India’s Kapil Dev hit three successive sixes off England spinner Eddie Hemmings at Lord’s in 1990, his…
BBC Radio was the first broadcaster to cover every ball of a Test match when it launched its Test Match Special in 1957. While cricket commentary had been on air before then, it was relayed only in fits and start. Today you’ll find many a spectator at a match in England listening to the show using a portable radio and headphones; commentary radios are even sold at the grounds. In the Guardian, Bob Chaundy pays tribute to Robert Hudson, the man who started it all. In 1955, while Hudson was…
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