’The game’s totally different when bowling is 93mph’

By Richard Edwards

Nasty blow: Andy Lloyd was hit by Malcolm Marshall

ANDY Lloyd knows how it feels to suffer a knockout blow in a Test match.
The former Warwickshire man was just 17 balls into his debut as an international cricketer when Malcolm Marshall sent down an exocet that not only ended his fledgling Test career but also robbed him of almost half the vision in his right eye.
It was a sickening blow. And one that was brought to mind following Steve Smith’s pole-axeing at Lord’s at the hands of Jofra Archer.
Lloyd knows how Smith feels and appreciates more than most the...

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