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Mark Nicholas

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Garry Sobers: where art met sport

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By Mark Nicholas
| thecricketmonthly.com
It is 9.30am on Friday, August 24, 1973 and Mum is faffing about, changing her dress and swapping fancy shoes for functional. I'm stressed. Lord's is 40 minutes in the car and we have to find a parking spot in St John's Wood. It's the morning of my first Test match, ever. West Indies have Garry Sobers, we have Geoff Boycott. The officials have Dickie Bird. Nobody played cricket like Sobers. The bat appeared as an extension of his body. The ball, a bullet from his gun.
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The story of Robin Smith and the Judge

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By Mark Nicholas
| thecricketmonthly.com
There will, I think, be a party up in the sky. The talk will be of square drives and square cuts; of outswingers and inswingers. The laughter will come from days in combat and from nights in harness. The memories of five friends who trod different boards in the same cause and who then lit up the stages upon which they performed with distinction. The personalities were different but the spirit and character within them was shared.
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England, India, Stokes, Jadeja - it's all or nothing at Old Trafford

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By Mark Nicholas
| ESPN India Verified
Nobody saw it coming - not a whole afternoon with barely a run scored. In truth, barely anyone saw the afternoon as a runner, full stop. When play began on the fifth day of the third Test at Lord's, the consensus was that it would be done and dusted either side of lunch. Then, as Indian wickets fell like confetti from the hot, blue sky, most of us wondered if we'd get any lunch at all. But cricket has rarely behaved as expected.
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