England’s bravest cricketer Brian Close considered ‘doing away with myself’
Total is the difference between the way England’s young cricketers used to be treated and the way they are kid-gloved ...
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Brian Close: Remembering Yorkshire CCC 's daring, defiant and daft hero
WINNER: Yorkshire captain Brian Close holds the Gillette Cup trophy ... and then batting for dear life against Michael Holding at Old Trafford in 1976, when, at the age of 45, he was recalled ...