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Louis Duffus: Saramagoesque White-Blindness

May 12, 2020

Louis Duffus was born on 13 May 1904

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In Cricket Characters, Apartheid Tags Louis Duffus, Arunabha Sengupta
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Ian Redpath: Fishing, Sideburns and Ready to Kill to Play for Australia

May 9, 2020

Ian Redpath was born on May 11, 1941

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In Cricket Characters Tags Ian Redpath, Arunabha Sengupta
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JM Barrie and Peter Pan's cricket team

May 9, 2020

JM Barrie was born on May 9, 1860

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In Cricket Characters Tags JM Barrie, Arunabha Sengupta
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Tauseef Ahmed: The Lionel Richie lookalike who walked into the Pakistan Test side from obscurity

May 9, 2020

Tauseef Ahmed was born on May 10, 1958

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In Cricket Characters Tags Tauseef Ahmed, Arunabha Sengupta
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Conrad Hunte: Cricket, Moral Re-Armament and the grandson of Gandhi

May 8, 2020

Conrad Hunte was born on 9 May 1932

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In Cricket Characters Tags Conrad Hunte, Arunabha Sengupta
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George Duckworth: Big gloves and a life worth living

May 8, 2020

George Duckworth was born on May 9, 1901

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In Cricket Characters Tags George Duckworth, Arunabha Sengupta
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Shrimp Leveson Gower: Of bites, impostering and the Crippen case

May 7, 2020

HDG Leveson Gower was born on May 8 1873

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In Cricket Characters Tags HDG Leveson Gower, Arunabha Sengupta
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Robin Hobbs: 45 minutes of mayhem

May 7, 2020

Robin Hobbs was born on 8 May 1942

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In Cricket Characters Tags Robin Hobbs, Arunabha Sengupta
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Tom Graveney: Cover drives at 76

May 6, 2020

May 6., 2003 Tom Graveney cover drove at the age of 76.

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In Cricket Characters Tags Tom Graveney, Arunabha Sengupta
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Robert Brooke: A combination of Mr Dick and Captain Cuttle

May 5, 2020

Robert Brooke was born on May 5, 1940

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In Cricket Characters Tags Mayukh Ghosh, Robert Brooke
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Collie Smith: What might have been

May 5, 2020

Collie Smith was born on May 5, 1933

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In Cricket Characters Tags Collie Smith, Arunabha Sengupta
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Herbie Taylor: One of the early pillars of South African batting

May 5, 2020

Herbie Taylor was born on May 5, 1889.

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In Cricket Characters Tags Herbie Taylor, Arunabha Sengupta
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Bob Wyatt: The Coffin Man's Prediction

May 2, 2020

Bob Wyatt was born on May 2, 1901

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Jack Fingleton: Antagonism brinking on cricket-crisis

April 28, 2020

Jack Fingleton was born on April 28, 1908. Or 121 days before Bradman

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In Cricket Characters Tags Arunabha Sengupta, Jack Fingleton
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Andy Flower: Bat, Big Gloves and the Black Bands

April 27, 2020

Andy Flower was born on Apr 28, 1968

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In Cricket Characters Tags Andy Flower, Arunabha Sengupta
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Jack D'Arcy: Heartthrob with a short career

April 23, 2020

Jack D’Arcy was born on Apr 23, 1936

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In Cricket Characters Tags Jack D'Arcy, Mayukh Ghosh
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Jonathan Trott: A cautionary tale

April 21, 2020

Jonathan Trott was born on Apr 22, 1981

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In Cricket Characters Tags Jonathan Trott, Arunabha Sengupta
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Ken Palmer: Out of box innings against Hall and Gilchrist

April 20, 2020

Ken Palmer was born on Apr 22, 1937

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In Cricket Characters Tags Ken Palmer, Arunabha Sengupta
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Hundreds, bites and depression: the story of Graeme Fowler

April 20, 2020

Graeme Fowler was born on April 28, 1957

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In Cricket Characters Tags Graeme Fowler, Arunabha Sengupta
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Alan Oakman: Linked to Jim Laker and the police in two curious ways

April 19, 2020

Alan Oakman was born on April 20, 1930

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In Cricket Characters Tags Alan Oakman, Jim Laker, Arunabha Sengupta
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