Ashes
Warne's first act of Ashes deception: The Hick tour game mauling that bluffed England into taking the leggie lightly
“We didn’t want to show England anything"
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“We didn’t want to show England anything"
"I sat there thinking, ‘I want to do that’"
“When you teach someone to bat, you teach them to bat like Ramprakash”
Ten kid geniuses, ten very different careers
From Graeme Hick to Phil Simmons
From manipulating a match for a leather jacket to denying a demi-god a double
"No mean feat, then or now"
"From the start he has been a prodigy"
"At that moment keeping quiet seems like quite a good idea, and so that’s what Hick does"
“These were wonderful and heady times for all connected with the county”