it with Warwickshire. People move more
now than they did when I was playing…
it was quite unique at the time because
with benefits it kept people at the same
county. Whereas now, salary dictates, and
first division, second division dictate if you
move or not because people want to play
for England and probably realise that they
need to be playing first division cricket.
Thinking of the highlights of your
career, you hit 203 and you got five for
49 bowling against Somerset. Was that
a highlight?
You always try and do the best you can
but if the expectations are low then it’s
a lot easier to enjoy something and the
bowling, to be fair, no-one expected too
much of my bowling right throughout
my career really. I probably would have
worked a lot harder if I was playing now,
because of T20 Blast cricket where
spinners play a big part. I was quite
difficult to hit for six and four because I
didn’t bounce very high. Somerset was
good fun ‘cause I’d never got a five before
that in domestic cricket. My biggest
individual moment was at 27 years of
age, 93, scoring the winning runs, putting
on 60 v