Flying fruit pips are less menacing than the cork and leather cricket balls that Harold Larwood hurled at Australian batsmen ...

Join Michael Atherton as he takes a trip round Trent Bridge to gain an insight into one of England's greatest ever fast bowlers, Harold Larwood. The ferocious fast bowler was the leader of the England ...

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Harold Larwood, born November 14, 1904, was perhaps the most feared and hated bowler in Australia for a long time. Abhishek Mukherjee looks at a man often referred to as the fastest bowler in history.

He was a fast bowler, who instilled mortal fear in batsmen after his 'Bodyline' attack on 'The Don'. The other was a cocky football manager, who in a seven-year span turned a team of laggards into ...

Serious sport is war minus the shooting... When he wrote that George Orwell might have been thinking of events in Australia 80 years ago this week. England, preparing to face Australia in the Third ...

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He had been used as the lethal weapon that had scorched the Australian batting line up and brought home the Ashes. He had been hailed as a hero when he returned victorious from the singularly ...

I like going to Test venues early. Not training-day early, but early enough that only groundsmen and the permanent staff are there. There is something about the empty stands four days before a Test; ...

What remained of Harold Larwood’s legacy at the place where he first picked up a cricket ball? Where he was once a hero? I was in Nuncargate, where Larwood grew up. Harold Larwood was my teenage hero.