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Dave Wilson
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November 2013
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“Sometimes life gives you a second chance, or even two! Not always, but sometimes. It’s what you do with those second chances that counts.”
― Masterly Batting: 100 Great Test Innings
― Masterly Batting: 100 Great Test Innings
“In 2011 India’s Test team was crowned as world cricket’s leading side for the first time in its history. The foundations for this global domination can be traced to a decade earlier, when a career-defining performance by VVS Laxman helped to turn a whole series on its head as India, in the face of a seemingly unassailable deficit, staged an unbelievable recovery to go on and overpower what many considered to be the finest cricket team ever assembled.”
― Masterly Batting: 100 Great Test Innings
― Masterly Batting: 100 Great Test Innings
“There is a splendid story that, during the long sea voyage, Cowdrey was observed by Frank Tyson being addressed with some passion by a well-dressed man whom Tyson didn’t recognize: 'When you reach Australia, just remember one thing,' exclaimed the older gentleman, 'Hate the bastards!' Tyson enquired of scorer and baggage man George Duckworth as to the man’s identity: 'That,” confided the ‘bodyline’ veteran, 'was Douglas Jardine.”
― Masterly Batting: 100 Great Test Innings
― Masterly Batting: 100 Great Test Innings
