And there was one other development. After Greig’s very public fall from grace, the search was on to find a new England all-rounder. Someone who could cure the perpetual selector’s headache of whether to pick a full complement of five bowlers and leave yourself a batsman light, or pick six batsmen and manage with just four pie throwers. Someone, in other words, who was competent in both departments. In the third Test of that summer, at Nottingham, about the time Hot Chocolate had got to no.1 with ‘So You Win Again’, they gave a début to a young, thrusting chap who’d been doing quite well for
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