Did Taylor always use that idiosyncratic footwork when he batted? And Did Emburey always get away with following through on the line of the stumps (which Taylor got warned for)?
Les Taylor was the last of his line where English cricket was concerned. He was a former miner who worked down the pit before taking up a career in county, then test match, cricket. This progression hasn't happened since and can never happen again. Why not? Well, not only does the UK no longer have a deep mine coal industry, even if it did the Govt sanctioned sell off of many school playing fields and the rocketing cost of cricket equipment (amongst many factors) would prohibit miners from taking up the sport! Home grown professional cricketers have been increasingly drawn from a narrow strata of UK society - those who are white and privately educated in public schools. It may not be immediately obvious that cricket is the poorer for this, but the society/country in which we live certainly is.
"Played the quicks pretty well."
Middle stump goes flying 20 yards
Did Taylor always use that idiosyncratic footwork when he batted? And Did Emburey always get away with following through on the line of the stumps (which Taylor got warned for)?
Because he didn't follow through far enough when he bowled (4ft then, 5ft now).
He still doesn't btw.
Taylor had painful feet
Les Taylor was the last of his line where English cricket was concerned. He was a former miner who worked down the pit before taking up a career in county, then test match, cricket. This progression hasn't happened since and can never happen again.
Why not? Well, not only does the UK no longer have a deep mine coal industry, even if it did the Govt sanctioned sell off of many school playing fields and the rocketing cost of cricket equipment (amongst many factors) would prohibit miners from taking up the sport! Home grown professional cricketers have been increasingly drawn from a narrow strata of UK society - those who are white and privately educated in public schools. It may not be immediately obvious that cricket is the poorer for this, but the society/country in which we live certainly is.