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Michael Holding

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Michael Anthony Holding (born 16 February 1954) is a former West Indian cricketer. [1]

78 relations: Alan Knott, Allen Stanford, Andy Roberts (cricketer), Arthur Jepson, Asthma, Australia national cricket team, B. S. Chandrasekhar, Barbados Cricket Buckle, Bernard Julien, Bowling, Bowling (cricket), Brian Close, Brian Johnston, Bridgetown, Canterbury cricket team, Clive Lloyd, Colin Croft, Colony of Jamaica, Cricket, Cricket Australia, Cricket West Indies, David Constant, Dennis Amiss, Dennis Lillee, Derbyshire County Cricket Club, Double entendre, England and Wales Cricket Board, Fast bowling, First-class cricket, Geoffrey Boycott, Graham Barlow, Greg Chappell, Henry Blofeld, Ian Chappell, Indian cricket team in the West Indies in 1975–76, Jamaica national cricket team, Jeff Thomson, Joel Garner, John Edrich, Kerry Packer, Kingston, Jamaica, Lancashire County Cricket Club, List A cricket, Malcolm Marshall, Marylebone Cricket Club, Melbourne Cricket Club (Jamaica), New Zealand, Nine Network, Nine's Wide World of Sports, One Day International, ..., Perth, Peter Willey, Richie Benaud, RJR 94 FM, Sabina Park, Sky Sports, Stanford 20/20, Stanford Super Series, Sydney, Sydney Cricket Ground, Sylvester Clarke, Tasmania cricket team, Test cricket, The Oval, Throwing (cricket), Tony Cozier, Tony Greig, University of the West Indies, Vanburn Holder, Viv Richards, WACA Ground, Wayne Daniel, West Indian cricket team in Australia in 1975–76, West Indian cricket team in England in 1976, West Indies, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, World Series Cricket, 1975 Cricket World Cup Final. Expand index (28 more) »

Alan Knott

Alan Philip Eric Knott (born 9 April 1946) is a former cricketer who represented England at international level in both Tests and One-Day Internationals (ODI).

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Allen Stanford

Robert Allen Stanford (born March 24, 1950) is an American former financier and sponsor of professional sports who is serving a 110-year federal prison sentence, having been convicted of charges that his investment company was a massive Ponzi scheme and fraud.

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Andy Roberts (cricketer)

Sir Anderson Montgomery Everton Roberts, KCN (born 29 January 1951) is a former Antiguan first-class cricketer.

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Arthur Jepson

Arthur Jepson (12 July 1915 – 17 July 1997) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire before becoming an umpire.

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Asthma

Asthma is a common long-term inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs.

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Australia national cricket team

The Australia national cricket team is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, having played in the first ever Test match in 1877.

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B. S. Chandrasekhar

Bhagwat Subramanya Chandrasekhar (informally Chandra; born 17 May 1945) is a former Indian cricketer who played as a leg spinner.

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Barbados Cricket Buckle

The Barbados Cricket Buckle is a repoussé engraving on a belt buckle of a slave playing cricket in Barbados circa 1780–1810.

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Bernard Julien

Bernard Denis Julien (born 13 March 1950) played 24 Tests and 12 One Day Internationals for the West Indies.

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Bowling

Bowling is a sport or leisure activity in which a player rolls or throws a bowling ball towards a target.

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Bowling (cricket)

Bowling, in cricket, is the action of propelling the ball toward the wicket defended by a batsman.

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Brian Close

Dennis Brian Close, (24 February 1931 – 13 September 2015) was an English first-class cricketer, the youngest man ever to play Test cricket for England.

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Brian Johnston

Brian Alexander Johnston CBE, MC (24 June 1912 – 5 January 1994), nicknamed Johnners, was a British cricket commentator, author, and television presenter.

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Bridgetown

Bridgetown (UN/LOCODE: BB BGI) is the capital and largest city of Barbados.

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Canterbury cricket team

Canterbury is a New Zealand first class cricket team based in Canterbury, New Zealand.

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Clive Lloyd

Clive Hubert Lloyd (born 31 August 1944) is a former West Indies cricketer.

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Colin Croft

Colin Everton Hunte Croft (born 15 March 1953) is a former West Indian cricketer.

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Colony of Jamaica

Jamaica was an English colony from 1655 (when it was captured by the English from Spain) or 1670 (when Spain formally ceded Jamaica to the English), and a British Colony from 1707 until 1962, when it became independent.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Cricket Australia

Cricket Australia (CA), formerly known as the Australian Cricket Board (ACB), is the governing body for professional and amateur cricket in Australia.

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Cricket West Indies

Cricket West Indies (CWI), formerly known as West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), is the governing body for cricket in the West Indies (a sporting confederation of over a dozen mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries and dependencies that once formed the British West Indies).

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David Constant

David John Constant (born 9 November 1941) is a former English professional cricketer and cricket cricket umpire.

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Dennis Amiss

Dennis Leslie Amiss MBE (born 7 April 1943, Harborne, Birmingham, Warwickshire) is a former English cricketer and cricket administrator.

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Dennis Lillee

Dennis Keith Lillee, AM, MBE (born 18 July 1949) is a former Australian cricketer rated as the "outstanding fast bowler of his generation".

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Derbyshire County Cricket Club

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Double entendre

A double entendre is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to be understood in two ways, having a double meaning.

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England and Wales Cricket Board

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is the governing body of cricket in England and Wales.

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Fast bowling

Fast bowling is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket, the other being spin bowling.

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First-class cricket

First-class cricket is an official classification of the highest-standard international or domestic matches in the sport of cricket.

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Geoffrey Boycott

Geoffrey Boycott OBE (born 21 October 1940) is a former Yorkshire and England cricketer.

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Graham Barlow

Graham Derek Barlow (born 26 March 1950) is a former cricketer and was a middle-order batsman for Middlesex and, briefly, for England.

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Greg Chappell

Gregory Stephen Chappell MBE (born 7 August 1948) is a former cricketer who represented Australia at international level in both Tests and One-Day Internationals (ODI).

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Henry Blofeld

Henry Calthorpe Blofeld, OBE (born 23 September 1939) nicknamed Blowers by Brian Johnston, is a retired English sports journalist, broadcaster and amateur ornithologist best known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra.

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Ian Chappell

Ian Michael Chappell (born 26 September 1943) is a former cricketer who played for South Australia and Australia.

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Indian cricket team in the West Indies in 1975–76

The India national cricket team toured the West Indies during the 1975–76 cricket season.

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Jamaica national cricket team

The Jamaica national cricket team is the representative first-class cricket team of Jamaica.

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Jeff Thomson

Jeffrey Robert Thomson (born 16 August 1950) is a former Australian cricketer.

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Joel Garner

Joel Garner (born 16 December 1952), also known as "Big Joel" or "Big Bird", is a former West Indian cricketer, and a member of the highly regarded late 1970s and early 1980s West Indies cricket teams.

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John Edrich

John Hugh Edrich, (born 21 June 1937) is a former English first-class cricketer who, during a career that ran from 1956 to 1978, was considered one of the best batsmen of his generation.

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Kerry Packer

Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer, (17 December 1937 – 26 December 2005) was an Australian media tycoon.

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Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island.

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Lancashire County Cricket Club

Lancashire Cricket Club, one of eighteen first-class county clubs in the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales, represents the historic county of Lancashire.

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List A cricket

List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket.

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Malcolm Marshall

, Malcolm Denzil Marshall (18 April 1958 – 4 November 1999) was a West Indian cricketer.

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Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club, generally known as the MCC, is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's cricket ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London, England.

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Melbourne Cricket Club (Jamaica)

Melbourne Cricket Club is a cricket club based in the city of Kingston, Jamaica.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Nine Network

The Nine Network (commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network, that is a division of Nine Entertainment Co. with headquarters in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney, Australia.

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Nine's Wide World of Sports

Nine's Wide World of Sports is a long running sports anthology brand on Australian television, aired on the Nine Network.

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One Day International

A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, usually 50.

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Perth

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia.

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Peter Willey

Peter Willey (born 6 December 1949) is a former English cricketer, who played as a right-handed batsman and right-arm offbreak bowler.

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Richie Benaud

Richard Benaud, OBE (6 October 1930 – 10 April 2015) was an Australian cricketer who, after his retirement from international cricket in 1964, became a highly regarded commentator on the game.

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RJR 94 FM

Radio Jamaica RJR 94 FM is a broadcast company in Jamaica with headquarters in Kingston.

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Sabina Park

Sabina Park is a cricket ground and the home of the Kingston Cricket Club, and is the only Test cricket ground in Kingston, Jamaica.

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Sky Sports

Sky Sports is a group of sports television channels operated by the satellite pay-TV company Sky plc.

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Stanford 20/20

The Stanford 20/20 was a cricket tournament in the Caribbean island of Antigua.

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Stanford Super Series

The Stanford Super Series were a series of Twenty20 cricket matches in 2008, sponsored by Allen Stanford.

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Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Sydney Cricket Ground

The Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) is a sports stadium in Sydney, Australia.

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Sylvester Clarke

Sylvester Theophilus Clarke (11 December 1954 – 4 December 1999) was a West Indian cricketer who played 11 Tests and 10 One Day Internationals.

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Tasmania cricket team

The Tasmanian cricket team, nicknamed the Tigers, represents the Australian state of Tasmania in cricket.

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Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket and is considered its highest standard.

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The Oval

The Oval, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Kia Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, in the London Borough of Lambeth, South London.

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Throwing (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, throwing, commonly referred to as chucking, is an illegal bowling action which occurs when a bowler straightens the bowling arm when delivering the ball.

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Tony Cozier

Winston Anthony Lloyd Cozier (10 July 1940 – 11 May 2016) was a Barbadian cricket journalist, writer, and radio commentator on West Indian cricket for over fifty years.

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Tony Greig

Anthony William "Tony" Greig (6 October 194629 December 2012) was an England Test cricket captain turned commentator.

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University of the West Indies

The University of the West Indies (UWI), originally University College of the West Indies, is a public university system established to serve the higher education needs of the residents of 18 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks and Caicos Islands.

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Vanburn Holder

Vanburn Alonzo Holder (born 10 October 1945) is a former Barbadian first-class cricketer who played in forty Tests and twelve ODIs for the West Indies from 1969 to 1979.

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Viv Richards

Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, KNH, OBE (born 7 March 1952), known as Viv Richards, is a former Antiguan cricketer, who represented the West Indies at test and international levels.

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WACA Ground

The WACA (formally the WACA Ground) is a sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia.

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Wayne Daniel

Wayne Wendell Daniel (born 16 January 1956) is a former cricketer, who played 10 Tests and 18 One Day Internationals for the West Indies between 1976 and 1984.

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West Indian cricket team in Australia in 1975–76

The West Indies cricket team toured Australia in the 1975-76 season and played 6 Test matches against Australia.

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West Indian cricket team in England in 1976

The West Indian cricket team toured England in 1976, spending virtually the whole of the 1976 English cricket season in England.

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West Indies

The West Indies or the Caribbean Basin is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean that includes the island countries and surrounding waters of three major archipelagoes: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago.

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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (or simply Wisden or colloquially "the Bible of Cricket") is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom.

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World Series Cricket

World Series Cricket (WSC) was a break away professional cricket competition staged between 1977 and 1979 and organised by Kerry Packer for his Australian television network, Nine Network.

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1975 Cricket World Cup Final

The final of the 1975 ICC Cricket World Cup was played in Lord's, London on 21 June.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Holding

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