George Hirst
HIRST, GEORGE HERBERT, who died at his Huddersfield home a few miles from his birthplace, Kirkheaton, on May 10, aged 82, was one of the most illustrious cricketers who graced the Golden Age
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At the height of cricket's Golden Age, England and Australia played out an epic Ashes contest with a legendary climax. Eric Midwinter recalls one of the greatest series of all
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All Today's Yesterdays - September 7 down the years September 6 | September 8 1963 The inaugural Gillette Cup final was also the first major one-day final to be played at Lord's
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A hundred years ago George Hirst scored 2,000 runs and took 200 wickets in a season for Yorkshire. Stephen Chalke tells how he did it
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