Richard Edwards looks back on Graeme Hick’s thumping 405 not out against a hapless Somerset attack in 1988

Richard Edwards
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It’s May 5, 1988, and the nation’s press is focused purely on two figures at Taunton. The prematch headlines concentrate on the ongoing spat between Ian Botham, now with Worcestershire, and Peter Roebuck, the Somerset captain. The pair had fallen out in spectacular fashion over the decision to axe Joel Garner and Viv Richards from the Somerset roll-call in the winter of 1986, and comments from Roebuck in the run-up to an otherwise innocuo...