This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Frank Tyson
Wed, September 13 2017
The Johnny Wardle-Fred Trueman sledge exchange
“What a bloody stroke,” said Johnny Wardle. It was only inevitable that Fred Trueman would lash back.
Mon, August 14 2017
An Eleven of Scientists: A terrific pace attack
Composing one from the cricketers sharing last names with famous scientists, Arunabha Sengupta stumbles across a magnificent fast bowling unit.
Sat, July 15 2017
The T’s: Terrific batting, terrifying bowling
Composing one from the cricketers with their last names starting with T, Arunabha Sengupta comes across magical names.
Mon, June 06 2016
Frank Tyson : Life and times
Frank Holmes Tyson, born June 6, 1930, was a former English cricketer who was one of the fastest bowlers cricket has ever seen.
Tue, June 06 2017
Frank Tyson: 20 facts about the Typhoon who brought The Ashes back
With 28 wickets from 5 Tests Frank Tyson was Len Hutton’s spearhead when England brought The Ashes back in 1954-55, all this while often reciting Shakespeare or Wordsworth on his way to the bowling mark.
Mon, February 29 2016
Alf Gover: 13 famous cricketing students of one of game’s best player-makers
A jack of all trades, Alf Gover was a journalist besides being a cricketer, trainer and technical adviser of 1953-film ‘The Final Test’. He even served the army during the 1939-45 War as a company sergeant major, before rising to the rank of major.
Sun, December 27 2015
Yearenders 2015: 13 international cricketers who passed away in 2015
Richie Benaud was one of the prominent names of cricket fraternity who left the planet in 2015.
Tue, October 06 2015
Frank Tyson remembered by Jeff Thomson, Mumbai cricketers and officials
Jeff Thomson said he would be happy to replicate something similar to what Frank Tyson had done a quarter century ago.
Mon, September 28 2015
Cricketing world pays tribute to Frank Tyson
Frank Tyson passed away at the age of 85.
Mon, September 28 2015
Frank Tyson: One of the fastest ever
The man, who by virtue of his incredible pace and convenient last name, was automatically compared to a Typhoon.