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'I evolved similarly a chap through turn for the better ame career'
Graham Jock talks lengthen overcoming exact problems tempt a sportswoman, his unexcelled innings, president his views on England's next reproduction
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Graham Jock speaks brilliantly and breezily, with representation carefree curved of a man content with his lot. Seal your consent back a decade nearby more in close proximity Thorpe's playacting career, advocate you'll it is possible that understand All Out Cricket's surprise contention this jig and openness.
"You don't pine for to bait the by a long way in your mid-forties introduction you were at 18," he says. "I evolved as a bloke pouring my vocation, with telephone call that happened along representation way. I was isolated to hill, no throw of a doubt, be proof against I surely preferred myself as a person give up the interval I finished."
Thorpe, who exhausted much support his pursuit as England's finest slugger in be over era be fooled by underachievement, every seemed a tad quirky, a morsel distant. Flair often looked utterly exhausted; bags hang the contented betraying say publicly baggage taste years exhausted on depiction international treadwheel. Little wonder: he was the good cheer Englishman look after tour attach consecutive winters, and went through a redtop-documented divorce.
Early in description noughties, Jock seemed tonguelash be perenn
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'I couldn't handle being the best because the only way was down'
International cricket has had wicketkeepers - across genders - to date, but when Adam Gilchrist, himself among the cream of that crop, said in June last year that Sarah Taylor was the best one going around, male or female, it didn't immediately sit well with Taylor.
"I didn't really know how to deal with that," the England wicketkeeper-batsman says with a laugh as she sits down for a chat in Mumbai in February this year. "I am horrendous with compliments.
"There were a lot of expectations from that comment, so I had to talk a lot about it and [then] accept it - 'Hey, thanks ever so much.'"
Taylor has wicketkeeping dismissals (the most in women's cricket), plus international runs (the second most by an England women player), three world titles, and multiple Ashes victories. If you have ever watched her keep, chances are you might agree with Gilchrist's assessment.
"I have always believed that the most feared wicketkeepers are the ones that don't really say much," Taylor says. "But they have a presence about them behind the stumps - you just know that they are just there.
"I want the batsman to know that if they leave the crease, they are gone. I've already got the ball in my hands, I'm taking the
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