Top Highlights

• proving that statistics, like the dresses that come out of the wardrobe on Oscar night, reveal as much as they conceal.
• English football has always loved a hard man, in the same way cricket loves a fast bowler. It’s because we all enjoy an ooh and an aah while we’re watching, I guess. The thought of the pain they might inflict adds to the drama.
• If I bowled in the nets there was no problem whatsoever, but take that netting away and move into a match scenario and it was a totally different proposition. It was clearly a mental frailty.
• Viv had menace but Garry was charismatic. He would be unbelievably chilled out. It was just his way of getting in the mood before taking you to the cleaners.
• Goodness knows what they would have done to you if you had dared a reverse or a switch hit. I can only imagine that it would have involved a summons at dawn.