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Cricketing Legend
Bob Willis - best known for taking 8 for 43 in the amazing 1981 Ashes Test at Headingley - has passed away at the age of 70.
R.I.P. - deserves the word legend without a doubt.
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People often refer to that Test as "Botham's Ashes" but Bob Willis ran in over after over to turn the match. A true cricketing legend
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I don't do cricket, but remember him as a sporting great when I was at school.
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There was, at that time, a cricket update telephone number, ( much like Dial a Disc.), whilst Bob was performing his amazing 8-43 bowling stint, I must have rang that number a least 100 times, as each Aussie wicket went clattering, the feelings of excitement...and disbelief mounted. Truly a day to remember.
Thanks Bob. I bet you are singing all those Dylan songs up there in heaven. R.I.P. Big man . |
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