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    The Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927 arose from a disagreement among members of Yorkshire County Cricket Club over the selection of a new captain to...
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  • all-professional affairs. It was not long before amateurs became involved in the AEE. Amateur status in first-class cricket Gentlemen v Players Yorkshire captaincy affair...
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    Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke (category Presidents of Yorkshire County Cricket Club)
    p. 184) (Coldham 1990, p. 183) See List of England cricket captains. See Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927. (Coldham 1990, p. 185) (Bowes 1949, p. 152)...
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  • Yorkshire captaincy affair: controversy over the decision (eventually reversed) to appoint a professional cricketer, Herbert Sutcliffe, as captain of...
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  • Ray Illingworth (category Presidents of Yorkshire County Cricket Club)
    : 302  He played for Yorkshire (1951–1968 and 1982–1983), Leicestershire (1969–1978) and England (1958–1973) and was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1960...
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    Wilfred Rhodes (category Cricketers from West Yorkshire)
    the captaincy, nor had his views been sought. He felt unappreciated when he was not offered first refusal of the captaincy. A poll of Yorkshire members...
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    Douglas Jardine (category English cricketers of 1919 to 1945)
    his captaincy, Jardine led England in the next three cricket seasons and on two overseas tours, one of which was the Australian tour of 1932–33. Of his...
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    Ian Botham (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    of form "could be cited as eloquent evidence of the undesirability of saddling a fast bowler and vital all-rounder with the extra burden of captaincy"...
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    Norman Yardley (category Presidents of Yorkshire County Cricket Club)
    University, Yorkshire County Cricket Club and England, as a right-handed batsman and occasional bowler. An amateur, he captained Yorkshire from 1948 to...
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    average of 26.70, and Tom Richardson, with 32 at 26.53. In 1896, England under the captaincy of W. G. Grace won the series 2–1, and this marked the end of England's...
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    Smith Cowdrey was removed from the captaincy and dropped from the team, to be replaced by the hard-headed Yorkshire captain Brian Close. In an amazing...
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    successful, failing to win any of its first-class matches, and Williams' captaincy attracted some criticism in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. "The weather...
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    as soldiers and colonists. Spanish Manila became the capital of the Captaincy General of the Philippines and the Spanish East Indies in 1571, Spanish...
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  • tour by a team under the captaincy of WG Grace, which played 15 matches, but none were first-class. Most of the matches of these early touring teams...
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    they both withdrew when the MCC asked Lord Harris to lead a tour. The captaincy was first offered to Monkey Hornby, but he demurred to his Lordship. The...
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    Mal Meninga (category Members of the Order of Australia)
    Wizard of aus". 8 May 2014. Craven, Dave (19 November 2016). "Weekend Interview: Legend Mal Meninga continues his 'love affair' with England". Yorkshire Post...
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    four' South Wales clubs of Newport (who lost only seven games under the captaincy of Llewellyn Lloyd between the 1900/01 and 1902/03 seasons), Cardiff, Llanelli...
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  • ready for captaincy challenge". Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 174 "Rowe, Francis Coryndon Carpenter (RW877FC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge...
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    Arthur Gilligan (category Military personnel from the London Borough of Southwark)
    history of Sussex, writer Christopher Lee suggests: "The ten years from 1920 to the end of Gilligan's captaincy in 1930 saw the blooding of some of the most...
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    Gubby Allen (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    progressed to the first team then the captaincy. His ability attracted the attention of Eton College, where a friend of Allen's father, C. M. Wells, was a...
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