Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Despite this condemnation, Rose was still named as one of five Wisden Cricketers of the Year, primarily for captaining Somerset to their first major honours. [18] Rose defended his actions, claiming that he had no other option, and that his "first duty is to Somerset. If anybody wishes to complain, he should do it to the people who make the rules."
Rose was educated at Weston-super-Mare Grammar School for Boys. [2] He trained as a teacher before pursuing a successful county career with Somerset.A left-handed opening batsman, he succeeded Brian Close as captain in 1978, and he led the county to their first ever trophies, the Gillette Cup and the John Player League, in 1979.
The 1979 English cricket season was the 80th in which the County ... Wisden - Joel Garner, Sunil ... Derek Randall, Brian Rose; World Cup Test series. India tour ...
The Wisden Cricketers of the Year are cricketers ... 1979 David Gower ... John Shepherd: 1980 Joel Garner: Sunil Gavaskar: Graham Gooch: Derek Randall: Brian Rose ...
The day after their success in the Gillette Cup Final, Somerset travelled to Nottingham, where they beat Nottinghamshire to clinch the 1979 John Player League. [18] The Somerset captain, Brian Rose was one of two Somerset players to be named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1980, primarily for his captaincy of Somerset during the 1979 ...
Bill Frindall, The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877–1978, Wisden, 1979; Colin Firth, Pageant of Cricket, The MacMillan Company of Australia,1987; Chris Harte, A History of Australian Cricket, Andre Deutsch, 1993; Ken Kelly and David Lemmon, Cricket Reflections: Five Decades of Cricket Photographs, Heinemann, 1985
Dennis Brian Close, CBE (24 February 1931 – 13 September 2015) was an English first-class cricketer. He was picked to play against New Zealand in July 1949, when he was 18 years old. Close went on to play 22 Test matches for England, captaining them seven times to six wins and one drawn test.
The highlights of the tour were a two-match One Day International series for the 1980 Prudential Trophy and a five-Test series for the Wisden Trophy, both against the English cricket team. West Indies were captained by Clive Lloyd, and England by Ian Botham. The ODI series was tied 1–1, and the Test series was ruined by rain.