Re: George Headley

On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 21:02:59 +0100, "DDEckerslyke"
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>I'm no expert but George Headley seems to come second to Bradman in several
>statistical lists but I know very little about him. I rarely see him
>mentioned in All Time XIs. I was just wondering if anyone here could provide
>any background and what rscers thought about GHH(?) are.
>
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Headley had, according to Neville Cardus, good claims to be
considered, ``on all wickets'', the finest inter-war batsman. And that
particular period, consisted of, among others, Wally Hammond and Stan
McCabe. 

The final word on Headley should come from James. ``I believe that
every great batsman is a special organism; it must be so, for they are
very rare, as rare as great violinists - I doubt if I have known more
than a dozen,'' 

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for more click

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2000/11/25/stories/0725028n.htm

CiL

As John Hall said, search this ng through google for lots more
opinions. If you have by chance C L R ' beyond the boundary or even
Ram Guha' picadoar anthology, you will find C LR James' brilliant
peice on Headley. 


>cheers
>
>dd
>
>btw I just got Sobers' autobiography out of the library - the writing's
>awful - it's like a 'What I did in my school holidays' piece.
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