England Over 70s win the World Cup

By Richard Edwards

IN SPORT, as in life, it’s important to hold onto your dreams. Something that John Evans, the victorious captain of England’s Over70 World Cup winning side knows only too well.
Evans once came up short by a single run in the National Village Final as the skipper of Frocester against Kington at Lord’s in 1993. But at Wormsley, against the might of Australia, he went one better – bringing cricket home with a seven-wicket win for the septuagenarians in an inaugural World Cup for the age group recently.
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