Following the recent death of Brian Close, Dan Waddell recalls his captaincy of a 1964 Yorkshire team in North America for the Guardian:-
“Their two matches in Toronto were weather-affected, though not as cataclysmically as the match in Calgary against Alberta, which was abandoned without a ball being bowled because of a blizzard. The following day, another 400 miles further west in Vancouver, the weather was in the high 70s and the venue was Brockton Point, which Donald Bradman had reckoned to be the most beautiful ground in the world; a backcloth of pine-clad mountains to one side, and the cobalt blue waters of the Pacific Ocean on another.”
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