on 21/8/01 9:19 AM, Matthew Francis at [log in to unmask]
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> With so many Aussies on this list, we shouldn't crow. But after all, they've
> won the series and beaten us at everything else recently, so what the hell!
> That was some innings by Mark Butcher, wasn't it? I was supposed to be
> working, but ended up watching nearly all of it. My theory is that he was
> possessed by the spirit of Botham revisiting the scene of his greatest
> triumph twenty years later. Which begs the question of who Botham was
> possessed by at the same time, and whether anyone noticed.
I didn't get to see the innings but crow away. I think it was a blessed
relief for Australia to lose a test, especially as the winning was
accomplished, it seems, in such a marvellous way, from what I've read. But
don't compare him to Botham. Let Butcher be Butcher and let him lay claim to
his own!
Cheers,
Jill
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