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Originally Posted by Barrie Yates
It is cricket when amateurs - even schoolboys, faced up to the likes of Wes Hall. Chester Watson, Charlie Griffiths and that maniac Gilchrist.
You wore pads, gloves and a box, and if you got hit you tried to grin and bear it, trying like hell not to let the bowler see he had hurt you - no thoughts of taking a swing at the bowler.
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Quite true Barrie, I remember facing Chester Watson, West Indian Pro for Church in the early 60s, in the nets, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a tad scared, he was like grease lightning, but you had to stand there and take it, stiff upper lip and all that
