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• Mike Hendrick obituary

  28-07-2021 14:22
  
  Masterful fast medium bowler who played 30 Tests for England and shone for Derbyshire and NottinghamshireThe cricketer Mike Hendrick, who has died aged 72 of bowel cancer, was a supremely accurate and dependable right-arm fast medium bowler who played 30 times for England in the 1970s and early 80s.Possessed of a rhythmic, perfectly sideways-on action, at times he almost appeared to bowl too well for his own good, seaming the ball away from the righthander so deliciously and on such a consistent
  
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• Graham Gooch recalls his masterful 154* against West Indies 30 years on

  28-07-2021 09:00
  
  Gooch hit 154 runs from 331 balls in 452 minutes for England at Headingley in 1991. It remains one of cricket’s greatest inningsBy Phil Walker for Wisden Cricket MonthlyIt’s 8am on a blustery Tuesday and the emeritus professor of run-makin’ is out on the Devon moors rambling through the decades. After resting awhile at Headingley in 1991 and a few other points in between, he lands on 1981, and the memory of a hundred at Barbados in the shadow of Ken Barrington’s death whi
  
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