PETER HAYTER

@phaytercricket

For the most obvious reason the summer of 1981 will be regarded forever as one of the landmarks in the history of English cricket.
But while the tale of Ian Botham’s Ashes captured most of nation’s sporting attention, a couple of lines in the following year’s Wisden Almanack were about all that were merited by a happening whose 40th anniversary recently slipped by similarly untrumpeted.
So it would be remiss of us not to try to redress the balance by celebrating that other event, namely the arrival of a player who bore no resemblance to...