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Paul Fitzpatrick

November 2025

  • Australia v England, 2nd Test, Perth, Dec 1978-79MacClean caught Gooch bowled Miller, Australia v England, 2nd Test, Perth, Dec 1978-79. (Photo by Patrick Eagar/Popperfoto via Getty Images)

    From the Guardian archive
    Archive, 1978: England win Ashes Test in Perth – match report

    21 Dec 1978: It is nearly 50 years since the last – and only – time an England side won a Test in the western Australia city

July 2023

  • Film critic and writer Derek Malcolm at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK August 2003 COPYRIGHT PHOTO BY MURDO MACLEOD All Rights Reserved Tel + 44 131 669 9659 Mobile +44 7831 504 531 Email: m@murdophoto.com STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY see for details: www.murdophoto.com No syndication, no redistrubution, repro fees apply.

    Letters: Derek Malcolm obituary

    Paul Fitzpatrick writes: I had the pleasure of going on Derek Malcolm’s Guardian cricket team tours to India in 1974

April 2014

  • Kerry Packer

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 21 April 1979: Deal close on Australian television cricket rights

    Originally published in the Guardian on 21 April 1979: Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket and his opponents could soon be working in harmony

February 2003

  • Peter Deakin

    Rugby administrator at home in both the league and the union.

August 1981

  • Jubilant England fans after the historic third Test match win against Australia at Headingley.

    England evoke a golden age

    Not since the golden age of cricket have England won a test to compare with the one they won by 18 runs against Australia at Headingley yesterday.

  • Brave Border fails to save the Ashes

    Fifth Test, Old Trafford, 1981: England win the fifth Test - and wrap up the Ashes.

  • Brave Border fails to save the Ashes

    It's 25 years since Botham's Ashes. We recall the day England retained the little urn.

July 1981

  • England evoke a golden age

  • Botham the power and the glory

June 1979

  • England in by a whisker

    Semi-final, 1979: England squeezed into their first final in a thriller at Old Trafford.

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