IT was at the beginning of 1937 that WILLIAM JOHN EDRICH, qualifying from Norfolk at the age of 21, played his first match for Middlesex IT was at the beginning of 1937 that WILLIAM JOHN EDRICH, ...

Keith Skipper celebrates the remarkable life of Bill Edrich - Norfolk sporting legend, war hero, serial romantic, and party-lover – born exactly 100 years ago this weekend. I can hear John Arlott's ...

Record-breaking England cricketer, wartime RAF hero, Tottenham Hotspur footballer and husband to five wives—McKinstry looks back on the “captivating” life of one of England’s “most remarkable yet ...

Bill Edrich was only a competent batsman but his manly exploits embodied the postwar spirit. By Michael Prodger Cricket is a game in love with its statistics, and while batting and bowling averages ...

EDRICH, WILLIAM JOHN (BILL), DFC, who died at Chesham as the result of an accident on April 23, 1986, aged 70, was a cricketer who would have been the answer to prayer in the troubled England sides of ...