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HUW TURBERVILL: Headingley '81 and '19 are often raised as England's finest moments of recent time but in the Sindh gloom Nasser Hussain and Graham Thorpe pulled off a minor miracle

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Posted by John Brown on 11/12/2020 at 17:22

I was there - it was certainly a very special - and memorable - experience. I thought the shot played by Thorpe which the fielders couldn't see was an extra-cover drive rather than a cut. I admired Bucknor as an umpire anyway, but my view of him that day went even higher.

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