Historic Cricket Pictures

A mix of rare, unusual, spectacular, personal, and historic pictures and videos from cricket's earliest days to modern times. Nothing AI generated

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@jollywheeler @quasii73 Nope, I didn't (I only watched 20 minutes or so) but the result is not the point I was making. It's the content

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I know I am getting old but ... just watched a cracking finish to the SA-Australia Test which has been entertaining for the last three days and which I will remember for some time. Turned over to the SL-England ODI which the commentators treat as if it is an epic sporting encounter. Yet to me it seems a bore where the balance between bat and ball is totally out of kilter ... surely cricket is more than thumping endless fours and sixes? (Marco Longari)

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This snap could be of anyone, anywhere. But it's Denis Compton bowling to author Dennis Castle, Cecil Hotel, Delhi, 1945. Behind the tree/wicket is Newcastle, Middlesborough, and England outside-right, Ralph Birkett

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@MICHAEL37404563 @KALHolman At times you are right. But at other times draws can be more exciting than a one-sided win. That's the essence of red-ball cricket

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@PhilBrown1956 Fair point, not doctored in the sense of favouring a side so much as they neuter the bowlers who become little more than mechanisms to provide the next boundary hit

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@James1hs @bbctms Agree it was the same for both sides. That's not really the point though

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@BillDonald1 Eh!? Why

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@MICHAEL37404563 @PhilBrown1956 If you can't be civil then don't bother

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@ADavies61517 Thanks for the valuable contribution!

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@uniquesupri Not at all. Test cricket could be - and can be - boring. It's far from perfect but it's not manufactured and sold to be woefully one-sided in favour of batting and sixes

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England captain Bob Willis at Lord's shortly before flying out to Australia for the Ashes, October 13th 1982. Willis took 18 wickets at 27.00 but England lost the series - and so the Ashes which they had held since 1977 - 2-1

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@PhilBrown1956 It will happen more and more as boundaries get shorter and pitches become increasingly doctored

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Nasser Hussain chasing the ball early in his career

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@jollywheeler I'd agree it was extraordinary. If you found it exciting then I am genuinely pleased for you.

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@simonutr Not a clue what that got to do with the discussion. If it had been about attendances I could understand. And since you brought it up, banks of empty seats at the ODI

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@Leginb I am pleased if you enjoyed it (seriously) but there's more about the game than records. It needs balance - same as Tests on dead pitches are no fun - and this was just a succession of hits and slogs

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@binghach I rest my case. "Sri Lanka have scaled cricket's Everest". Seriously?

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@binghach Post match the broadcasters will be in a frenzy about what a classic game of cricket this was. And within a day few other than Brook and is family will remember it.

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Cannot recommend highly enough this four-part podcast in which @NHoultCricket interviews Geoff Boycott at some length. Great insights into his career both on and off the pitch

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Episode one of our 4 part podcast series with @GeoffreyBoycott

Geoffrey Boycott interview: Children were safe when I was growing up
https://t.co/DfMIJ7ZhsZ

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Episode one of our 4 part podcast series with @GeoffreyBoycott

Geoffrey Boycott interview: Children were safe when I was growing up
https://t.co/DfMIJ7ZhsZ