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...Mark Nicholas, an English cricket commentator, rates Procter as one of the eight greatest post-second world war all-rounders, alongside Keith Miller, Garfield Sobers, Richard Hadlee, Imran Khan, Ian Botham...
...In cricket, what’s the collective word for byes, leg byes, wides and no balls? The name for which haircut was derived from its popularity among rowers in American Ivy League universities?...
...Data visualisation by Keith Fray...
...England’s men’s Test cricket team takes on India in Birmingham on Friday to conclude a five-match series that began last August....
...Keith Fray’s analysis of the changes in society, economics and politics over her reign contained a chart of the prime ministers by length of service....
...European Tour chief executive Keith Pelley explained just why he’s so opposed to the arrival of LIV Golf....
...“Overnight, they went from competitors to partners,” says Keith Pelley, chief executive of the European Tour, who described the deal as “opportunistic” rather than defensive. “It’s just the beginning.”...
...Keith Haring by Simon Doonan is published by Laurence King at £12.99...
...Fourteen years later, that wish came true when he agreed to meet me in connection with a biography of the Australian cricketer Keith Miller that I was writing....
...Trading had been stronger in Europe, where revpar increased 3 per cent, boosted by trade fairs in Germany and the Cricket World Cup in the UK....
...Poor relations between the countries precluded any meeting on the cricket field between 1961 and 1978....
...It took Peter Sheppard and his partner Keith Day to see its promise....
From economic might to mobile connections and cricket, much has changed
...Why would you appoint two captains of the England cricket team, or two prime ministers?...
...“Muddy [Waters] and Chuck were close to the straight electric blues,” says Keith Richards. “But Bo was fascinatingly on the edge. There was something African going on in there....
...hl=en The Twenty20 Cricket world cup is underway in India. Run rates in one-day internationals are rising under the influence of this ultra-short form of the game...
...The All Blacks are the most successful sports franchise in history, achieving a better win ratio than Brazil in football or Australia in cricket....
...simon.kuper@ft.com; Twitter @KuperSimon Illustration by Luis Grañena Letter in response to this article: No one wanted to be a completer-finisher / From Prof Keith Richards...
...In the stands of a cricket match on a recent London evening, a screenwriter and a lawyer summed up the UK’s temperamental divide....
...Eight years ago, the ECB rejected a franchise Twenty20 competition proposed by the then chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club, Keith Bradshaw....
...The fast-talking, cricket-loving Northerner has announced an 8 per cent increase in profits before tax for the half-year to £547m with net cash generation – his preferred measure – 11 per cent higher....
...I’d happily name them all, but that would be overly indulgent (sorry, Keith, Phil, George, Archie, Joe etc) Way back when, I played a fair bit of cricket for Marin County, just outside San Francisco....
...In 2004, as editor of Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack, I asked him to write an appreciation of his own idol, Keith Miller, who had just died. He said yes. I murmured something about the fee....
...But he concedes he has been to Edgbaston, the home of Warwickshire county cricket club, to watch matches....
...When Keith Miller once led the New South Wales cricket team on to the field, somebody pointed out to him that there were 12, to which Miller snapped: “One of you bugger off!”...
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