Gooch stayed dignified while Botham despaired… (and Javed is still not out)

Peter Hayter recalls how Derek Pringle was deprived of giving England what would have been their only World Cup

THE STORY OF THE 1992 WORLD CUP
Twenty-five years on, for The Cricket Paper’s Derek Pringle and countless others, the pain may have subsided but the memory remains sharp.
On March 25, 1992, a sultry evening at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, in front of nearly 90,000, the majority of whom were Aussies present in hopeful anticipation of seeing the Poms get duffed up, the Essex all-rounder was in the process of securing an England World Cup final victory for the first and,...

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