'I felt like a foreigner in the England dressing-room'- Graeme Hick
Simon Hughes speaks to Graeme Hick about his illustrious career, its highs and lows, and reasons for his limited international success
Siddhartha Talya
25-Feb-2013
Simon Hughes speaks to Graeme Hick about his illustrious career, its highs and lows, and reasons for his limited international success. Read his article in the Telegraph.
“I grew up on a tobacco farm in Zimbabwe,” he said. “The first time I walked into the England dressing room was the first time I’d spent a day in the company of all those guys. I didn’t know anyone really. I did feel like a foreigner in the dressing room.
“There were one or two who resented me being there and we were competing for places. There was one guy with a good Test record – Allan Lamb – and he wanted to say something but he didn’t know what to say or how to say it because I already had more first-class runs than him.”
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo