There's Len, sucking up to Riv with a cricket player...
It will still probably be a 'NO' even though John Reid is arguably second only to Richard Hadlee as New Zealand's most eminent test cricketer.
"Arguably" is the operative word there Len. I can remember his world record number of 6s at the Basin Reserve in the 1960s and what a shame he was ahead of his time for ODIs.
My vote though would go, after Richard Hadlee, to Bert Sutcliffe and there is a Bert Sutcliffe Medal awarded each year to an outstanding kiwi cricketer. He made a couple of triple centuries but his most talked about innings would probably be his 80 not out in Johannesburg in the 1950s. He returned to the wicket swathed in bandages after being hit on the head by a Neil Adcock bouncer and continued his assault on the bowling with a number of sixes. When the ninth wicket fell the players were ready to go home. Bob Blair, NZ number 11, was thought to be back in his hotel distraught at the news his sister had been killed in the Tangiwai train disaster two days before, strode to the wicket in front of a silent crowd of 23,000. The pair put on 33 runs in 10 minutes before Blair was out and NZ suffered a heavy defeat. But a NZ cricket writer was moved to write "It was a great and glorious victory, a story every New Zealand boy should learn at his mother's knee"
Yoshiro Nakamatsu the Japanese inventor is 90 today. At the last count he held over 3,200 patents. Including such delights as a condom with a built-in magnet and a self-defence wig. It seems he comes up with his best ideas while under water.
Starred in 'Compact' a BBC sixties soap and also appeared in 'The Army Game' which was the forerunner of 'Bootsie and Snudge' both sixties comedies. He also had a minor role in 'The Great Escape.'
Starred in 'Compact' a BBC sixties soap and also appeared in 'The Army Game' which was the forerunner of 'Bootsie and Snudge' both sixties comedies. He also had a minor role in 'The Great Escape.'
Starred in 'Compact' a BBC sixties soap and also appeared in 'The Army Game' which was the forerunner of 'Bootsie and Snudge' both sixties comedies. He also had a minor role in 'The Great Escape.'
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Remember reading the Ramona books and mouse and the motorcycle in primary school.
My vote though would go, after Richard Hadlee, to Bert Sutcliffe and there is a Bert Sutcliffe Medal awarded each year to an outstanding kiwi cricketer. He made a couple of triple centuries but his most talked about innings would probably be his 80 not out in Johannesburg in the 1950s. He returned to the wicket swathed in bandages after being hit on the head by a Neil Adcock bouncer and continued his assault on the bowling with a number of sixes. When the ninth wicket fell the players were ready to go home. Bob Blair, NZ number 11, was thought to be back in his hotel distraught at the news his sister had been killed in the Tangiwai train disaster two days before, strode to the wicket in front of a silent crowd of 23,000. The pair put on 33 runs in 10 minutes before Blair was out and NZ suffered a heavy defeat. But a NZ cricket writer was moved to write "It was a great and glorious victory, a story every New Zealand boy should learn at his mother's knee"
RIP Mary Wilson.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44395291
She should say to the Queen "Mind if I smoke"!
Unfortunately though, she has just recently died.
The great John Woodcock former cricket correspondent of The Times
Born 7 August 1926.
It seems he comes up with his best ideas while under water.
RIP
Actress who is known for being a Queen Elizabeth 11 lookalike.
Born October 15 1927
Starred in 'Compact' a BBC sixties soap and also appeared in 'The Army Game' which was the forerunner of 'Bootsie and Snudge' both sixties comedies. He also had a minor role in 'The Great Escape.'
EDIT: Died in 2002 so ignore!!!
Born 8 October 1928 so as a resident of Australia he is 90 today!