Vale Bob Willis

[worbod]

Christopher Martin-Jenkins finishes his biography of Willis in The Who's Who of Test Cricketers by stating, "Even as a number eleven he has made use of every ounce of ability, though as captain against Pakistan at Edgbaston in 1982, he got so carried away by a team talk he was giving that he walked out to bat after tea - without his bat!"

 

[psychobrown]

Yeah, was terrific for English cricket as a player and personality. I always enjoyed his candour and self-deprecating humour, some of the many things I shared in common with him along with our mutual dislike of brummies. His commentary career was insightful, such as calling out umpires like Aleem Durr, D Harper and Russ Tiffin ("he shouldn't be umpiring school cricket") and noting that Graeme Swann crawled into the lifeboats with the women and children on the Titanic. RIP R.G. Willis.

 

[worbod]

Yeah, was terrific for English cricket as a player and personality. I always enjoyed his candour and self-deprecating humour, some of the many things I shared in common with him along with our mutual dislike of brummies. His commentary career was insightful, such as calling out umpires like Aleem Durr, D Harper and Russ Tiffin ("he shouldn't be umpiring school cricket") and noting that Graeme Swann crawled into the lifeboats with the women and children on the Titanic. RIP R.G. Willis.

What incident had Swann been involved in for Willis to make that comment?