Cricketer Hick admits ‘lack of cutting edge’ as curtain falls
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on September 17, 2008
‘Unfulfilled promise’ has often been a phrase used to describe Graeme Hick’s career so it may be cruelly apt if his final season before retirement is cut short by injury.
That means the former England international is set to miss the four-day County Championship match against Middlesex starting on Wednesday.
Born in what was then Salisbury, Rhodesia, Hick had to serve a seven-year qualification period before making his England debut in 1991, during which time he was repeatedly touted as the saviour of the team.
Had he gone into the side in his early 20s, when expectations were not so high, he might have been treated more kindly by selectors and supporters alike.
His placid nature led to one of celebrated umpire Dickie Bird’s more famous rebukes when the batsman was on the receiving end of a volley of verbal abuse from Merv Hughes.
Perhaps the truth about Hick was that rather than being unfulfilled, his career went as far as his talent and mentality allowed, only the distance wasn’t as far as both his supporters and detractors would have liked.
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