BIG AL’S WIT AFTER BUMBLE’S DELIVERY

GOOD to see the legend that is Alan Mullally coming back to his quirky self after a tough period, the fishy tale of how he once put a dead shark in Mike Atherton’s bed in Napier, New Zealand, nicely retold in the Daily Telegraph.
It brought to mind one of my favourite ever cricket stories, a highlight of David Lloyd’s UK speaking tour a few years back.
Bumble recalled how, when he was England’s coach at the 1996 World Cup, they and all other teams were required to spend several hours completing the arduous task of signing hundreds of souvenir bats on the eve o...

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