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Tony Pigott

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Tony Pigott

One Test Wonders›
Aug 9, 202156:59

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In this episode we speak with fast bowler Tony Pigott.

Tony had a first-class career that spanned three decades, collecting 672 first-class wickets for Sussex, Surrey and New Zealand side Wellington along the way, and he made his Test appearance as a late call-up in what became a notorious innings loss in New Zealand, at Christchurch in February 1984.

The story of that call-up, involving as it did the need to rearrange his wedding, his own fitness worries around that time and the match itself make up one of the most remarkable tales in the history of English cricket.

Let’s let Tony take up that story…

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August 9, 2021.
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