BY GEORGE! YOU’LL MAKE MUM PROUD

The Grumbler
A FAN’S VIEW BY RICHARD CLARKE
@The_Grumbler
By his own admission, George McMenemy bowls “rustic right-arm over” and the braces holding up his whites make him look like a “Hampshire Morris Dancer” but the first wicket of his career garnered more social media attention than many of the Test dismissals this summer. It certainly provided cricket’s feel-good story of the season.
On July 23, @ThatsSoVillage posted a clip of McMenemy bowling only the second over of his two seasons with Newport Inn CC, a small team based in Braishfield in the rolling Hampshire countryside.
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