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Sledging….
I love West Indies Cricket. I even loved it back in the seventies and eighties when they were obliterating English batsmen with a barrage of bouncers, a piratical team led by Clive Lloyd who looked like a head teacher but had a core of steel. So the last few years of underachievement have been painful […]
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A gentleman cricketer….
The death of Basil D’Oliveira this week brought back a welter of memories. I was immediately reminded of how my dad revered him and that it wasn’t difficult for a cricket mad ten-year-old in the sixties to see why. There was an almost ethereal grace about D’Oliveira, a man who had lost possibly the best playing […]
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A gentleman cricketer….
Yes, India have been comprehensively humbled by England during the current test series and, yes, some of the England team have produced memorable performances. However, my man of the series has to be an Indian player. It’s easy to perform when you’re surrounded by motivated players who are at the top of their game but […]