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Harmless toothless country boy after talk+chalk & corporate stints. Only vintage magazines suffer him now.
Joined May 2011
"BOX" A photo by Patrick Eagar. A note by Lawrence Booth. Missing is an illustration by the great Nick Newman.
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"We must have all been mad." Keith Fletcher looks back on the 74-75 Ashes in Australia. Excerpt "Captain's Innings"
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Manchester 1974: 'Gavaskar's greatest worry was that he'd split his trousers. During tea he tried to change them but Wadekar said 'nothing doing' so Gavaskar had to smile at Greig's question as to whether air-conditioning was a regular feature in Indian trousers.' ✒️Peter Roebuck
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Prisoner of this feeble frame he might be, but his mind and intellect still penetrated Sabatier-sharp: a brand-new Porsche engine in a 60s Cinquecento. In a spidery hand, he autographed my copy of 'Beyond A Boundary' ✒️ Frances Edmonds, who met C L R James in his late eighties
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From Alan Ross' epic "Through The Caribbean" (published 1960) covering England's 1959-60 tour in the era when print was king.
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"It was probably the fastest Holding had ever bowled. I had the satisfaction of scoring a breezy half-century" ✒️Jimmy Amarnath, Kingston 1976
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"Maan, go away, eh. We facing defeat and you want to talk politics?" -- A couple of unhappy West Indian fans to writer V S Naipaul at Lord's 1963
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The 1975 World Cup teams at Buckingham Palace. 📸Mohinder Amarnath "Fearless - A Memoir"
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England 1986. "The players' behaviour especially while travelling across the British Isles, caught my attention. We had a permanent luxury coach at our disposal" ✒️Mohinder Amarnath "Fearless: A Memoir" photo: Roger Binny
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The Carse and Gill mini collision today while Harsha Bhogle alluded to the Sunny - Snow full collision at Lords 1971. Excerpts from John Snow (left) & Basil D'Oliveira
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Jimmy Amarnath with his wife Bikoo at a restaurant, Canary Wharf London July 2024
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Sunil Gavaskar plays forward while his mother and sister wait patiently in the slips. In a test of the 76-77 series against England, he hit a six over mid-wicket in the last over of the day
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The first Ranji Trophy match was held at Madras on Nov 4, 1934. It lasted one day. 100 overs and 5 balls. Mysore (Karnataka) 1st inn: 48. Madras (Tamil Nadu) 1st inn: 130. Mysore 2nd inn: 59 Ram Singh bowled unchanged in both inns and took 11 for 35 off 27.5 overs
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