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Vote: | As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure. |
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Vote: | As you grow older, you begin to question, you demand more from your captain. Those two, Brearley and Illingworth, were great to have early on in my career. |
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Vote: | Brearley was the cleverer of the two, while Illingworth had a lot of cricketing commonsense and intuition. |
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Vote: | He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game. |
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Vote: | It is merely a question of how quickly you adapt to the atmosphere of cricket in India, with its enthusiastic crowds. |
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Vote: | It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility. |
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Vote: | Nasser Hussain is brilliant. I am very impressed with him. With no disrespect to the current players, he has had to work with material which is not of the highest quality. |
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Vote: | People are talking of his susceptibility to the rising delivery, but let me tell you that when you are out of form, every ball looks like a hand grenade. |
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Vote: | So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes. |
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Vote: | The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty. |
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Vote: | The one major disappointment I have is that I didn't get a hundred against India in India. I got lots of runs against India in England including a double hundred I am very proud of. |
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Vote: | The team pulled together very well, whatever we tried worked. |
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Vote: | The way the tour has developed has been as good an example of that as you would like to see. |
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Vote: | They have an understanding regime; they work hard and get results, they are a happy team. |
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Vote: | To be out of form is a soul-destroying experience. The whole of India is on his back, in one sense or the other. You need your friends and family around you at times like this, and you need to maintain your self-belief. |
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Vote: | While respecting our confidences, I can say that I sat beside him on the flight from Ahmedabad to Mumbai, and we spoke a lot about techniques and attitudes. He was confident that a big score was just around the corner, but was concerned about things. |
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Vote: | You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless. |
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Vote: | You cannot separate the two entirely. Sport is about competition, and the striving of individuals to be the best. It is all about standing standards. |
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David Ivon Gower (born April 1, 1957) is a famous cricketer, former captain of the England side. He was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
In 1975 he made his debut for Leicestershire County Cricket Club, for whom he played until 1989. From 1990 until 1993 he was with Hampshire.
Gower was an elegant left hand batsmen and has a reputation for being aloof, perhaps because of his privately educated background and upper-class accent and manner. Considered one of the finest English players to grace the field, his laconic style was often misinterpreted as indifference and a lack of seriousness. The same style often resulted in big centuries, a fine example of which was his 157 in the 6th Ashes test in the English summer of 1985. This was during his first period as captain, for which he had limited overall success. The Ashes series of 1985 was a highlight with his own batting including 3 big centuries.
Gower was "forced" from the international arena by short sighted English selectors. Witness a BBC sports news announcement on the English team to tour India in the early 1990s: in the background a scene showing Gower playing the Pakistan quick bowlers with ease; during the tests all other batsmen had struggled against them; yet in the team, no Gower. Effectively his cricket career was at a premature end at age 35.
Since that time he has been a commentator throughout the world, and an advocate for endangered African wildlife. Perhaps the best summation of his batting talent comes from Clive Lloyd who noted that Gower would be an automatic selection in his West Indies team regardless. High praise indeed, and a recognition of a genuine match winner with the bat.
Since leaving the game, Gower has enjoyed a new career as a television personality, including being one of the team captains on the popular BBC comedy sports quiz, They Think It's All Over from 1995 till 2003.
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