Total recall
To the pub last night with a couple of the IDLC collective and others. Among the many drunken conversations was a discussion about the Brian Lara-inspired Warwickshire side of the mid-90s.
We were trying to remember the name of the Warwickshire bowler who, like Martin Bicknell at Surrey, took loads of wickets in country cricket, played for England, was rubbish, and then went back to country cricket and took loads more wickets.
I find it extremely frustrating when I can remember everything about someone except their name; and i have often spent whole evenings working myself into a frenzy trying to remember. Thankfully last night wasn't that bad - we realized it was Tim Munton - until I began trying to remember the name of another player in that Warwickshire side who I could only describe as, "that blonde South African fella, who was a brilliant fielder, rubbish at everything else and wasn't Jonty Rhodes". The name finally came to me when lying in bed this morning: Trevor Penney. Thus this post is a self-indulgent exercise in catharsis.
Addendum: I had forgotten, but Trevor Penney was actually one of the substitute fielders that so wound up Ricky Ponting during the last Ashes...
posted by cov @ 9:09 am
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Trevor Penney is also a world record holder for enduring an unbelievably wank haircut for an unbelievably long period of time.
It's 20 years and counting.
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