David Gower
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983 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2023
last heard 30 Jun
David Gower’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And for instance, one of the great bowlers of that era, Richard Hadley, Sir Richard Hadley,
playing against him at the Oval probably about 1986, somewhere around there.
And I was something like, I don't know, 60, 70, not out at T. Lovely day at the Oval, good pitch.
So having worn the helmet up until then, I
Put the floppy hat on.
I just had an actually no hat, just bareheaded.
Try going to find it.
Try going to find it for you.
Yeah.
It'll be up in the acid being nibbled by mice.
I know.
Lucky, lucky mice.
They don't know there's rat bait in it.
So, yeah, Richard looks at me and sort of, oh.
cheeky sod, bowled me three bounces, one of which glanced off the side somewhere around here, went for four.
And then he had made his point, so he just went back to normal cricket.
But I nearly did it once in Antigua, where for some weird reason, again at tea time, I thought, maybe just show a bit of bravado here.
Nah, maybe not.
Put the helmet back on, just the side pieces.
And Colin Croft, who was quite a handful as well, again, one of those
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