Cricketers memories

A Collection of player moments

Playing and non-playing memories of Bill Athey, Don Bradman, Ted Dexter, David Gower, Shane Warne, Brian Lara and the Middlesex team

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Richard Sydenham: working with Curtly Ambrose

Apprehension before finding that "Curtly speaks to no man" was just a line, not the truth

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Derek Pringle: Graham Gooch's French lets him down

An expensive attempt to order a beer

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Chris Sandford: John Murray

A schooldays obsession with, but failure to emulate John Murray, a fine man on and off the field

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Murray Hedgecock: meeting Len Hutton in the 1980s

But I didn't recognise him

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Holly Luckett and Jade Jones: Darren Gough and Denis Compton

Darren Gough, my step-father's inspiration : Denis Compton, my Grandmother's favourite

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Mike Atherton: David Gower

Watching his first ball in Test cricket fired my ambition

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Jane Prendergast: David Gower

Watching David Gower in the cold of Grace Road and the sunshine of Lord's, and meeting him as a junior reporter

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Brian Hewitt: "meeting" the players - via an Accounts Book

Royalties in the 1950s

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Jack Mandel, Stumpycricket Blog: the physical cost of bowling fast

Limited careers, reduced pace and compromised legacies

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