Sir Ian Botham may soon have a rival in the opener who went out in a blaze of glory this summer
My admiration for sportspeople is always at its most intense at this time of year. After all, it’s the season when I can make it to the end of a week and realise that my food consumption, extensive as it was, consisted only of items in varying shades of beige. When I wake to discover mince-pie crumbs in my bed and sometimes in my hair. The only physical exercise I engage in follows a YouTube search on “Yoga for Digestion” and getting the rubbish to the bins feels like the 10,000m, requiring me to pace myself in the early stages and keep a water bottle to hand.
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