Richie Benaud Archives

Ted Dexter obituary England cricket captain known for his daring play and run-scoring whose debonair manner earned him the nickname ‘Lord Ted’ Ted Dexter in 1964 padded up to play for Sussex in a County Championship match against Kent. Photograph: Robert Stiggins/Getty Images Source:Theguardian Ted Dexter, who has died aged 86, was a truly rare cricketer, remembered beyond his playing days less for the quantity of runs he scored than for the debonair manner in which he acquired them. At the crease he looked every inch the aristocrat, tall and erect, and with a preference for flamboyant strokeplay. What made him doubly interesting was the sense of adventure that went with an unpredictable mindset. Teammates often felt that while he was fielding his thoughts were away from the cricket ground. Asked some years later where his one Test double century was scored, he simply could not recall. And when the telephone ...

DON BRADMAN AND HIS MEN IN CEYLON – by Neville Jayaweera An essay from the book “Essaying Cricket Sri Lanka and Beyond” authored by Michael Roberts Source:Adelaideaz The image of Don Bradman exercised almost a mesmeric hold over the imagination of my generation, i.e. of those born in the 1930s, in (then) Ceylon. The dominion he exercised was so absolute that even now, sixty something years on, most of that generation would claim that there never was and never will be anyone like the Don taking guard at a batting crease. Speaking for myself, having watched cricket in England during the past thirty summers that I have been living here, I can vouch that no batsman I have seen ever came nigh Bradman. Neither in run getting nor in amassing statistics, neither in the capacity to concentrate nor in the fleetness of foot, neither in the murderous power of driving ...