Yorkshire 555 for 1 decl. (Herbert Sutcliffe 313, Percy Holmes 224*) beat Essex 78 (Hedley Verity 5 for 8, Bill Bowes 4 for 38) and 164 (Stan Nichols 59*; Hedley Verity 5 for 45, Bill Bowes 5 for ...

Herbert Sutcliffe, born November 24, 1894, was one of the best opening batsmen ever. Arunabha Sengupta looks back on the career of the man who ranks right up there with the greatest bad-wicket ...

Herbert Sutcliffe, born November 24, 1894 was a former England right-hand opening batsman widely regarded as one of the greatest cricketers to have graced the willow.

Harold Larwood: Herbert Sutcliffe needed some getting out. He was a great battler for England and for Yorkshire. He never gave his wicket away - unless he was satisfied he had made enough already.

Unfavourable conditions hardly mattered for Sir Herbert Sutcliffe. No one personified the hard-school pro-attitude as much as Sutcliffe.

Woodlands. A grand mill-owner's house, built of stone and set in several acres of land. With a tennis court, an orchard and a stable block. High above Pudsey. Here in the 1930s lived Herbert ...

Herbert Sutcliffe made 176 and 127 in his two innings in the second Ashes Test in 1925, but England still lost the match by 81 runs • Mar 14, 1933 • Getty Images ...

Percy Holmes and Herbert Sutcliffe opened, but when he had made 3 Holmes, who had been a doubtful starter because of lumbago, gave a hard chance off AG Daer which was spilt by Roy Sheffield, the ...

HERBERT SUTCLIFFE was born at Pudsey on November 25th, 1894, and is thus a fellow-townsman of John Tunnicliffe. His father played for many years for one of the Pudsey clubs, and an inherited ...

Herbert Sutcliffe was a self-made man, ambitious and thorough, and, according to his England partner Jack Hobbs, he turned himself from "an ordinary speaker" into "a wonderful orator".