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All Rhodes

Jun 28, 2009: Two of the greatest books on one of the greatest allrounders ever

Cricinfo XI

Ripe old age

Jul 31, 2007: Eleven players who continued turning out well beyond normal retirement age

1904

Harrogate's self-repairing pitch

Feb 11, 2006: Martin Williamson on some odd goings on at Harrogate

The Top Ten ...

The epoch makers

Jul 7, 2005: Andrew Miller looks back on ten of the greatest momentum-seizing matches in Anglo-Australian history

All Today's Yesterdays

England's greatest allrounder

Oct 29, 2003: 1877 Birth of the man Neville Cardus described as "Yorkshire cricket personified"

England v Australia 1902

Golden days

Sep 2003: At the height of cricket's Golden Age, England and Australia played out an epic Ashes contest with a legendary climax. Eric Midwinter recalls one of the greatest series of all

Boxing Day in Melbourne (part 1)

Dec 26, 2002: Twenty years ago one of the classic Test matches was played at the MCG

Cricket's Hall of Fame welcomes five new members

Jul 3, 2000: The FICA PricewaterhouseCoopers International Cricket Awards Dinner at the Grosvenor House Hotel on 3rd July 2000 saw the induction of five new members to cricket's Hall of Fame

1968

Beside the Roses the Ashes paled into insignificance

Apr 1968: Neville Cardus on the importance of the annual battle between Yorkshire and Lancashire

CRICKETER OF THE YEAR - 1899

Wilfred Rhodes

1899: Wilfred Rhodes's appearance for Yorkshire last season illustrated in a most striking way the truth of the proverb that the hour brings forth the man