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Originally Posted by jaysay
I can remember going over to see him play but when we got to the ground we heard he wouldn't be playing as he'd been in a car accident, mind you his replacement wasn't a bad un Barrie, some bloke called Garfield Sobers stood in for him  Roy Gilchrist play at Bacup, and he was a nutter, and was only a relatively small chap really
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Australian spinner was the 1st one, then Polly Umrigar, can't remember if anyone after him before Chester - boy, did life get hectic after that - bouncers that the wkt keeper couldn't get to. That sort of thing went on to my time in the RAF, but gave it up in the '70s, pitches crap, bowlers too fast, eyes and reactions too slow - one on the forehead hairline and one on the temple, fortunately wearing spectacles


