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Aug 8, 2017 · Harold Larwood died in Sydney in 1995 at the age of 90. Roper was 41 at the time. By the end the great fast bowler was worn down somewhat by the sands of time, but his impact on Australia had long ...
Harold Larwood MBE (14 November 1904 – 22 July 1995) was a professional cricketer for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and the England cricket team between 1924 and 1938. A right-arm fast bowler who combined extreme speeds with great accuracy, he was considered by many players and commentators to be the finest and the fastest fast bowler of his generation and one of the fastest bowlers of ...
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Jul 22, 2019 · It came close to rupturing cricket; indeed, it might have ruptured relations between Britain and Australia. But it was in the nature of cricket that Larwood should eventually settle happily in Australia, the country whose batsmen he once haunted. Harold Larwood was a miner’s son from Nuncargate outside Nottingham.
Apr 15, 1996 · But it was in the nature of cricket that Larwood should eventually settle happily in Australia, the country whose batsmen he once haunted. Harold Larwood was a miner's son from Nuncargate outside ...
But it was in the nature of cricket that Larwood should eventually settle happily in Australia, the country whose batsmen he once haunted. Harold Larwood was a miner's son from Nuncargate outside ...
Nov 13, 2004 · At any rate, Larwood, who at 14 had become a Nottinghamshire mine "pit-boy", duly found that the egalitarianism of Australia suited him much better than classbound Britain, where the so-called ...
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Harold Larwood was a professional cricketer, considered by many as the best bowler of his generation. Larwood would be considered relatively small for a fast bowler , yet fast he certainly was. At his quickest he could bowl in excess of 90mph, pace generated with the help of powerful shoulder and back muscles built up working in a coal mine from a young age.
