Neil Foster (proper) took 908 first-class wickets in his profession at a mean of 24.44
“On that exact night, all the things we laid a bat on was caught behind the wicket or at slip, all the things we missed was both bowled or lbw. It was an entire freak.”
It was 40 years in the past this week that Alan Butcher was within the Surrey facet bowled out for 14 by Essex, nonetheless the bottom innings complete in a County Championship recreation since earlier than World Conflict One.
Having bowled Essex out for 287 on the opening day’s play, Surrey started their first innings within the closing session – and 14 overs later, it was throughout.
Seven gamers made geese as West Indies paceman Norbert Phillip returned unbelievable figures of 6-4, supported effectively by Neil Foster, who took 4-10.
“The way in which it normally labored, the primary day had been rained off and being a 3 day recreation, we would acquired 280 odd, we would have a little bit of a bowl, they’d rating a couple of runs after which we would begin speaking about declarations and see if we might make a recreation of it on the final day – 14 all out ruined that concept,” Foster advised BBC Essex’s Round The Wicket.
“You by no means anticipate issues like that to occur. I feel we had 45 minutes to bat on the finish of the day. We thought we would had fairly an excellent day really, bowling Essex out. We thought we’d lose a few wickets, however all 10 in 40 minutes for 14, we weren’t too comfortable about that,” Butcher recalled.
“[Captain] Roger Knight, when requested by the press, stated ‘we did not bat awfully effectively’, which has acquired to go down as one of many best understatements of all time.”
SURREY FIRST INNINGSButcher c East b Phillip 2Clinton c East b Foster 6Needham b Foster 0Knight lbw Phillip 0Lynch lbw Phillip 0Richards c Turner b Phillip 0Thomas lbw Foster 0Payne b Phillip 0Monkhouse lbw Phillip 2Clarke b Foster 4Pocock not out 0Extras 0
By 1983, left-handed opener Butcher’s temporary worldwide profession was already behind him – one Check and a single one-day worldwide – and it was son Mark who would make an even bigger affect with England,…
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