The wording on these make me smile!! Would have liked more runs tho
Mark Reading and Ben Thorogood opened the innings with the skipper’s instructions to “tee off” ringing in their ears. Thorogood departed earlier than he would have liked and
Reading soon followed, clean bowled, having treated onlookers first to a sumptuous square drive on bended knee and then to an agricultural wallop over square leg for six onto the pavilion roof from a full toss off his two previous balls.
Mark Reading, coming on from the Warwick End, again demonstrated what a priceless asset he is to the club. Keen historians will know that West Indian legend Sir Garfield Sobers is generally acknowledged as the greatest all-rounder the game has ever seen. Sobers batted like a dream, bowled swing at pace, off-spin, leg-breaks and was a master fielder.
Reading is all these things and more. Did Sobers regularly keep wicket too when required? I think not. Bowling his mystery-spin and the occasional quicker dart,
Reading cemented his reputation as an all-rounder of immeasurable talent, taking two wickets and having the wherewithal (not to mention decency) to not bowl out his boss’s son towards the tail end of the Warwickshire CC innings.
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