Cricket Thread

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TROSaracen Feb 2021 8:43pm, 1 Feb 2021 22,774 posts	0 TROSaracen I was 7. I only became ‘cricket aware’ in 1981, 6 years later.
Ocelot Spleens Feb 2021 8:44pm, 1 Feb 2021 30,074 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens Cerrertonia....3rd from right back row?
NDWDave Feb 2021 9:09pm, 1 Feb 2021 13,887 posts	0 NDWDave My first cricket awareness was the Botham “leg over test”. First live cricket match was Hampshire Surrey at May’s bounty, Basingstoke in 1992. wisden.com An amazing line up as a kid with David Gower, Malcolm Marshall, Shaun Udal, Graham Thorpe, Ali Brown, and the Bicknell brothers. And er... Mark Nicholas...
Ocelot Spleens Feb 2021 9:16pm, 1 Feb 2021 30,075 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens 1973 for me....I was 9 and handed a bat and could whack a ball...Uncle Arthur used to send me his old monthly cricket magazines, and gave me a bat! A Peter May endorsed one....
Bazoaxe Feb 2021 9:18pm, 1 Feb 2021 18,814 posts	0 Bazoaxe I saw Courtney Walsh bowl an apple once.
Oscar the Grouch Feb 2021 9:19pm, 1 Feb 2021 2,533 posts	0 Oscar the Grouch No talk of grovelling at this stage, presumably.
ThorntonRunner Feb 2021 9:22pm, 1 Feb 2021 4,555 posts	0 ThorntonRunner Used to head off to Grace Rd for final couple of hours of championship play after school as a teenager in the mid-70s. No longer got it but I got David Gower's autograph on a scorecard when he was an unknown 2nd XI player
NDWDave Feb 2021 9:27pm, 1 Feb 2021 13,888 posts	0 NDWDave My grandad had a good chat with Courtney Walsh in the bookies at the Abergavenny ground. He only told us when he saw him bowling later in the day. Also Viv Richards was playing that day. Happy days... Also a young Robert Croft and Hugh Morris
GregP Feb 2021 9:29pm, 1 Feb 2021 125,008 posts	0 GregP I have this month’s Cricketer but I haven’t read the Brearley article yet.
Bazoaxe Feb 2021 9:33pm, 1 Feb 2021 18,815 posts	0 Bazoaxe Reminds me of a time we were watching a question of sport. What happens next and it’s lee Trevino in a green side bunker My grandad says he chips it straight in the hole. We all laughed. They play the clip and Trevino chips the ball straight in the hole. My dad says how on earth did you know that. Grandad says see that guy standing behind the bunker. That was me.