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Gibson returns

Gibson returns

At the age of 35 and having played his last first-class match more than three years ago, Ottis Gibson scarcely expected to be leading a county attack this summer

15-Jul-2004•John Westerby

Counting the cost

Counting the cost

The development of Trent Bridge has met with approval from all quarters, a masterpiece of good taste and functionality, and there is more to come over the next five years, but the members have been enjoying the fruits of grand design for the paltry

15-Jul-2004•Martin Searby

Shocked at success

Shocked at success

Many people have been surprised to see Warwickshire looking very much the part as pacesetters halfway through the Championship campaign

15-Jul-2004•John Westerby

Triple-talented Tyke

Triple-talented Tyke

Ken Taylor played football under Bill Shankly and cricket for Yorkshire and England

15-Jul-2004•Stephen Chalke

The coach and the driver

The coach and the driver

This autumn Duncan Fletcher will have been England coach for five years

15-Jul-2004•Simon Wilde

Patel spreads cheer

Patel spreads cheer

That Min Patel is bowling with anything remotely resembling consistency is a cue for at least three cheers

15-Jul-2004•Rob Steen

Wessels sets sights

Wessels sets sights

Kepler Wessels has set Northants a target

15-Jul-2004•Nick Hoult

Relaxed Dawson

Relaxed Dawson

Richard Dawson had just turned 21 when he played the first of his seven Tests in December 2001 and not much older when he played his last at Sydney in January two years later

15-Jul-2004•Martin Searby

Houghton upbeat

Houghton upbeat

Given that Derbyshire reached the halfway stage in the season without a Championship win and have carried a long list of walking wounded, it would be understandable if an air of doom and gloom was descending over the Racecourse Ground

15-Jul-2004•Martin Searby

Spearman supreme

Spearman supreme

Few men can claim to have usurped Hobbs, Hammond and Grace in the same innings

15-Jul-2004•Rob Steen

Shane for Shane

Shane for Shane

These are happy times in Hampshire

15-Jul-2004•Nick Hoult

Who'd be a bowler?

Who'd be a bowler?

The bowling averages at the end of June should have come with a parental warning: all the Somerset regulars' Championship wickets were costing 30-plus

15-Jul-2004•Rob Steen

Look who's grovelling now

Look who's grovelling now

When West Indies toured in 1976, England's captain Tony Greig started the series with the greatest motivational speech of his life

'Sometimes Griffith throws, sometimes he doesn't'

'Sometimes Griffith throws, sometimes he doesn't'

In 1963 Alf Gover was the principal of the leading cricket school in the country

Thornton's great hit

Thornton's great hit

Charles Inglis Thornton is generally considered to have been the longest hitter the game has ever known

Sydney Barnes - cricket's living legend

Sydney Barnes - cricket's living legend

In the June 1963 issue of The Cricketer, John Arlott paid tribute to Sydney Barnes

Milton's Sporting Paradise

Milton's Sporting Paradise

Alan Hill travels west for a friendly encounter with Arthur Milton, the former Gloucestershire and England batsman and Arsenal winger and the last of the cricket and soccer internationals

When youth has flown

When youth has flown

Ted Dexter on the unwinnable war against Anno Domini

Gayle force

Gayle force

Richard Hobson profiles Chris Gayle

28-Jun-2004•Richard Hobson

Rebels take a step too far

Rebels take a step too far

The 1980s was the era of rebel tours

28-Jun-2004•Nick Hoult

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