Richard Edwards looks back to 1986 when Jack Richards earned his place in English cricket folklore with a heroic performance in Perth

Bloody hell fire!” Those were the first three words uttered by Jack Richards as he strapped his pads on and walked into the nets for England’s first practice session at the WACA in November 1986.
“The first ball I faced flew over my shoulder before I really had a chance to move”, he says. “It was like batting on ice, I had never seen anything like it. The pitch at the WACA was lightning fast but the nets were off the scale.&rdquo...