July 2015

Clive Rice and the game when he was the best of the best

Submitted by rickeyre on July 30, 2015 - 7:41am

Clive Rice has died at the age of 66 after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was one of cricket's greatest all-rounders in an era of truly great all-rounders. But unlike Ian Botham, Imran Khan, Kapil Dev and Richard Hadlee, Rice's achievements register barely a blip on the international cricket radar.

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Cricket in the Olympics? (1996 edition revisited)

Submitted by rickeyre on July 16, 2015 - 9:04pm

Cricket has made just one appearance in Olympic competition, in the second games of the modern olympiad, held in Paris in 1900.

Buck Rogers in the Seventh Half Century

Submitted by rickeyre on July 10, 2015 - 8:56am

When Chris Rogers was dismissed for 95 on Day Two of the Cardiff Test he achieved a new world record... the first player in the history of Test cricket for pass 50 in seven consecutive innings without converting for a 100.

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