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Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 5:33 pm
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The older brother of world-famous cricket umpire David Shepherd, who died in October, has also died, the North Devon Journal reports.
Bill Shepherd, 71, was himself a respected cricketer and once scored a century at Lord’s for the MCC Young Cricketers.
Unlike his brother (pictured), he did not pursue a career in professional cricket and, after a [...]

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Friday, November 27, 2009, 11:55 am
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The great and good of the cricket world gathered at a church in Westbury-on-Trym church to pay their respects to David Shepherd MBE, the Bristol Evening Post reports.
The packed pews included such famous faces as former England captain Mike Gatting OBE and former England wicket-keeper Jack Russell MBE.
The popular umpire and former Gloucestershire cricketer died [...]

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 1:09 pm
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David Shepherd, one of cricket’s best loved characters, has died at the age of 68 from cancer.
He was appointed a First Class umpire in 1981 and established his reputation for fairness rapidly, officiating at the World Cup in 1983 and his first Test in 1985, sharing the field with Dickie Bird.
His superstitions and quirks regular [...]

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 9:21 am
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Friends of playwright Harold Pinter are organising a cricket match in his memory later this year.
They will use the occasion to auction off a painting of him in a cricketing pose to raise money to help children in Hackney.

The Independent reports that the Pinter family has already received an anonymous bid of £4,000 for the [...]

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Friday, January 30, 2009, 5:38 pm
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Cricket scorer and statistician Bill Frindall, who was nicknamed the Bearded Wonder for his phenomenal ability to produce facts at the drop of a hat, died today.
Frindall was known to millions of listeners to Radio 4’s Test Match Special programme which he joined in 1966. The late Brian Johnston affectionately dubbed him the Bearded [...]

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Thursday, January 15, 2009, 5:28 pm
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As tributes poured in today for Jan Kaplický, architect of the futuristic Selfridges Building in Birmingham, a family friend revealed he died hours after his wife, Eliska, gave birth to their daughter Johanka.
The 71-year-old Czech designer, who also created the media centre at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London, collapsed in a street in Prague [...]

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Thursday, January 15, 2009, 3:53 pm
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The Czech architect responsible for two of the UK’s most unusual buildings, Jan Kaplický, has died aged 71.
He designed the futuristic media centre that looms above Lord’s Cricket Ground’s Nursery End and the alien-like exterior of the Selfridges Building (pictured) at Birmingham’s Bull Ring shopping centre.
The award-winning architect once said, “Where is it written [...]

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 11:18 am
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Today was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Don Bradman, undoubtedly the greatest batsman who ever lived and arguably the world’s greatest sportsman.
In a BBC interview, England fast bowler Sir Alec Bedser – who took Bradman’s final Test wicket in 1948 – has been sharing memories of a very private man with whom he [...]

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Friday, August 1, 2008, 11:52 am
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The Independent today runs an obituary for John Norman, an otherwise unremarkable producer for the BBC who once saved the skins of his bosses – by ignoring their instructions.
During a routine broadcast of Grandstand in 1968, he received the call to turn off cameras at a county cricket game between Glamorgan and Nottinghamshire in Swansea. [...]

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 12:11 pm
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Bill Brown is the second Australian cricket legend to die this month following the passing of all-rounder Norm O’Neill on the 3rd.
During their otherwise splendid careers, both players had the misfortune to be compared to the great Don Bradman, Brown as his slow-scoring team-mate and O’Neill as his potential replacement.
The latter’s fate was to go [...]