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1 A) Harold Bird, born in Yorkshirein 1933, had a long and successful umpiring career in domestic and international cricket.2 B) It is generally believed that in February 1774 the very first official laws of cricket were drawn up and adopted.
For the West Indies on their 1991 tour of England, the satisfactions were not so numerous as usual. Carl Hooper developed a measure of consistency, and Curtly Ambrose was as accurate as fast hostility can be, but nobody made a great leap forward nobody, that is, except their No. 3 batsman, Richie Richardson. As the season went on, and he finally adapted to English conditions, the Antiguan in a maroon sunhat progressed from cold to hot like the summer itself. And in the autumn Richardson s career could also be said to have reached fruition, when he was appointed to succeed Viv Richards as captain of West Indies.
20 Facts
20 Facts
1. John Wisden was a pioneering cricketer in Victorian times. A 5ft 4ins fast bowler, he was nicknamed The Little Wonder and once took all 10 wickets in an innings, every one of them clean bowled. He went into business in 1850, while still at the height of his career, selling cricket gear in Leamington. In 1859 he went on the first English cricket tour abroad - to the USA and Canada.
2. A new edition of Wisden has been published every year since 1864. The first edition was priced at one shilling. It ran to only 112 pages and was padded out with several items unrelated to cricket, including notable dates of battles in the English Civil War, the winners of The Oaks, and the rules of quoiting.