Norman Yardley
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Norman Walter Dransfield Yardley was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University, Yorkshire County Cricket Club and England, as a right-handed batsman and occasional bowler. An amateur, h
Yardley in 1946
Yardley at an unofficial Test match against India in Lahore on 13 November 1937
Yardley receiving massage in 1947 before a match against South Africa
Brian Close
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Dennis Brian Close, was an English first-class cricketer. He was picked to play against New Zealand in July 1949, when he was 18 years old. Close went on to play 22 Test matches for England, captainin
Norman Yardley
…Match Special from 1956 until 1969, as well as in 1973. According to David Frith, the only time he was moved to express severe disapproval was when Brian Close was dismissed after a poor shot in the Fourth Test in 1961 at Old Trafford; this was part of a final-day England collapse that handed Australia the…
Brian Close in 1950
Brian Close (pictured middle row, third from the right) with the England team which toured Australia in 1950–51
Brian Close presenting an award for Yorkshire in 2008.