The Over 50s more often include former first-class cricketers, before their appetite for the sport is sated. On a domestic level most first-class counties have at least three sides at Over 50 and Over 60 level, and maybe a couple at Over 70. England had two left-arm spinners, the type of bowling which appears to diminish least with age. One Australian batsman began his innings with monumental slowness so they were never in the chase and lost by 54 runs. The trials and fitness tests, to get into the England Over 60s and 70s teams, are stringent and there has to be a defibrillator to hand, as there should be now at all cricket matches. I have to declare another interest in that I played for Gloucestershire Over 60s with him, and even on the hottest days he was sharp between wickets while piling up his hundreds. Evans’s father played for the RAF alongside the England stylist, and John watched Graveney batting for Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, without deliberately copying. It could have been Tom Graveney of old stroking the ball around, usually square of the wicket, easing on to the front foot to defend or back-cutting. Much of the bowling is spin the players are rounded, comfortably shaped nobody dives and batsmen hit the ball along the ground.Įngland’s star batsman was their new captain John Evans, who scored 114* out of 256 for seven. This series of Over 70 internationals can be watched on live stream and it must be like going into a cinema in the 1950s to watch a newsreel of England’s latest Test match. In general though a bowler’s speed does not begin to match his age in years. The knees, hips and tendons of first-class cricketers tend not to survive into their seventies, but Australia have an opening bowler, Colin Cooke, who played for Queensland at the same time as Jeff Thomson nigh on half a century ago.
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