Like to see a day last 124 overs these days - it wouldn't finish until gone 9.00
And imagine scoring at under 3 over an over and winning ...
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Like to see a day last 124 overs these days - it wouldn't finish until gone 9.00
And imagine scoring at under 3 over an over and winning ...
Garry Nelson's teacher
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Finally, a close shave?
ManOfSussex
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Good stuff. I was there in 1993 and that was 120 overs and finished in the dark.
I was there too, kudos to Warwicks for facing Stephenson in the gloom.
IIRC, that match started at 10.30 not 11.00: imagine what it would have been like 30 minutes later
ManOfSussex
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Yes it was a 10.30 start. I remember being sat up in the Edrich upper when Warwickshire hit the running runs. I couldn't see the ball but I remember Martin Speight running and I thought for a second he could and was under it. It was a great knock by Asif Din.
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Garry Nelson's teacher
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Thought Martin Speight was a fine player and almost ahead of his time in his range of shots. Hugely talented player but ended up going to Durham?
Don't think Speight really fulfilled his promise. He always looked good but an average of 31 didn't do justice to his talents.
He was one of several players to depart in 1996 (along with Alan Wells, Giddins, Salisbury and Law). That ultimately had a positive effect as it led to the Night of the Long Knives in March 1997 - I still remember the buzzing atmosphere in the Metropole that night, it felt like a revolution (which it was really)
Leekbrookgull
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Ed Giddins what a wasted tslent.
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
1. Wessels
2. Langridge
3. Dexter
4. Miandad
5. Goodwin
6. Greig
7. Imran
8. Prior
9. Le Roux
10. Snow
11. Mushtaq
2. Langridge
3. Dexter
4. Miandad
5. Goodwin
6. Greig
7. Imran
8. Prior
9. Le Roux
10. Snow
11. Mushtaq
Mackenzie
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Greeko
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Mine would be
Mendis
Wessels
Goodwin
Adams (C)
A Wells
Imran Khan
A Greig
Prior
Le Roux
Snow
Mushtaq
Mendis
Wessels
Goodwin
Adams (C)
A Wells
Imran Khan
A Greig
Prior
Le Roux
Snow
Mushtaq
The Birdman
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beat the West Indies
jakarta
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Another vote for Jason Lewry, considering some of the Dross that were selected for England during his playing career it is a scandal he was never capped...
Seagull58
In the Algarve
33 posts in and finally someone finds a place for Gehan Mendis. Robbed by Barclay of 5 tons in 6 innings and should have opened for England.
Garry Nelson's teacher
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And Mendis was another local in terms of schooling. I think he actually got better when he moved to Lancs - but we should never have let him go.
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I think you'd need to be quite old to have seen him play? He was a great Bishop though! A campaigning anti-poverty champion. Might get into a composite dream team for ethical reasons and as a counter-balance to those who went on rebel tours to S Africa?
Garry Nelson's teacher
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Yes - was there on the Saturday too. A very proud day in the county's history as this WI side were awesome and thrashed England in the Test series. I remember that Ken Suttle took one to the head from Charlie Griffith during the game? Didn't stop him from breaking the record for consecutive appearances in the County Championship. (Note to younger readers: Griffith was a 'chucker' and just about the fastest around at the time - and of course no helmets in those days.)
Those games against tourists used to be so exciting - a real shame that they now hardly feature. Also living in Sussex you'd have the first peak at the touring sides at Arundel. Bloody hell: a nostalgia-fest!