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Bob Willis’s contribution to English cricket will never be forgotten

5 December 2019

7:35 AM

5 December 2019

7:35 AM

Certain days in the long and sometimes glorious history of English cricket are so brightly coloured they can never fade. Two such are the 20th and 21st of July, 1981. Age and the passing of time cannot weary them. The old tape has been played and replayed so often, it becomes all but impossible to discern between the facts of the Headingley test that summer and the legend it has become.

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