Re: George Headley

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:48:34 +0100, John Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> DDEckerslyke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>Just to reinforce the point: in Sobers' autoboiography (and I read this
>>after I made the OP) when discussing great batsmen he mentions IVAR,
>>SMG, the Chappells, Barry Richards, Graeme Pollock, Bradman, Hanif
>>Mohammed, Rohan Kanhai, Everton Weekes, and Neil Harvey but not George
>>Headley. Like I said he seems to be routinely overlooked.
>
>It's astonishing and rather sad that Sobers, himself a West Indian,
>should do so, though. Or perhaps it's that a Barbadian can't be expected
>to rate a Jamaican.

Bradman would be the only player in that list that Sobers wouldn't
have seen during his career
Bradman being Bradman it's not surprising that Sobers would mention
him and, based on Sobers' coaching book he'd done a fair bit of
watching Bradman's play.
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