evingtonfox
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Many a team he sank that’s why he’s called the Tank, still got his signed testimonial programme somewhere, it’s massive A4 at leastMy first game at Grace Road was county v Essex , Jim Laker was playing for the visitors, i think Graham Cross was involved, might be wrong, usually am
….Great footage of the last day drama on YouTube introduced by John Arlott (9 minutes 22 secs) if anyone knows how to post it on here. Thanks in advance
if someone could be so kind.
Thank you LGFOX. Lots of sawdust on show too. Commentary by Benaud and company!
Quite a few Indian born cricketers had previously played Test Cricket for England. The most prominent of those being the Nawab of Pataudi Senior who played for both India and England, KS Ranjitsinhji,Duleepsinhji. Indian Prince’s who had been educated at Cambridge or Oxford University’s were qualified to play for England even if they had previously played for India.That postponed SA tour is interesting in that if it Dolly hadn’t have been picked they’d have gone? . Is that correct Borebage? Quite unique in that I can’t recall one person of colour in the England set up in those days apart from him.
England were left without a summer test series in 1970 because the scheduled South Africa tour had to be cancelled due to the politics. A hastily planned England v Rest of the World was arranged to fill the void. The World XI won the series 4-1.
Interestingly 5 players who would have originally toured with South Africa were included in the World XI teams. Eddie Barlow,Graeme Pollock,Peter Pollock,Mike Procter and Barry Richards.
Gary Sobers captained the World and Ray Illingworth for England.
The rest of the world squad were Farokh Engineer,Lance Gibbs,Intikhab Alam,Rohan Kanhai,Clive Lloyd,Graham McKenzie,Deryck Murray and Mushtaq Mohammad.
I remember Clive Inman playing for us. Played at no.4? Think Brian Davidson took over from him in that position? Never realised there were so many non English players of colour who had played for England.Quite a few Indian born cricketers had previously played Test Cricket for England. The most prominent of those being the Nawab of Pataudi Senior who played for both India and England, KS Ranjitsinhji,Duleepsinhji. Indian Prince’s who had been educated at Cambridge or Oxford University’s were qualified to play for England even if they had previously played for India.
Ramon Subba Row was English born of an Indian father and English mother.
Even the England captain in that 1968 Oval Test Colin Cowdrey had been born in India during Empire days.
Leicestershire cricketers Clive Inman and Stanley Jayasinghe were from Ceylon. Although they didn’t play for England.
In 1965 Jayasinghe publicly refused to play for Leicestershire against the white-only South Africans who were touring England, after his own experiences of racism playing against the South Africans in 1960.
Douglas Jardine the England captain during the infamous “Bodyline” Ashes series in Australia was another who was born in India. Children of the Raj.