I think Aggers forgot more about cricket than you'll ever know BBBig Boy wrote: ↑Wed Dec 29, 2021 8:35 am This is a totally ignorant question from a cricket ignoramus. It seems only 2 years ago England (and Wales - who seem to be keeping their heads down) were on top of the cricket world. All that I seem to be seeing here (and on Sky News) is that England's cricketers are crap. Very little credit seems to be going to the Aussies for being brilliant - could it be that this Aussie team have peaked and are the best that have ever been, and no team could live with them at the moment?
Just asking.
Jonathan Philip Agnew, MBE, DL (born 4 April 1960) is an English cricket broadcaster and a former professional cricketer. He was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, and educated at Uppingham School. He is nicknamed "Aggers", and, less commonly, "Spiro" – the latter, according to Debrett's Cricketers' Who's Who, after former US Vice-President Spiro Agnew.[1]
Agnew had a successful first-class career as a fast bowler for Leicestershire from 1979 to 1990, returning briefly in 1992. In first-class cricket he took 666 wickets at an average of 29.25. Agnew won three Test caps for England, as well as playing three One Day Internationals in the mid-1980s, although his entire international career lasted just under a year. In county cricket, Agnew's most successful seasons came toward the end of his career, after his last international match, when he had learned to swing the ball. He was second- and third-leading wicket-taker in 1987 and 1988 respectively, including the achievement of 100 wickets in a season in 1987. He was named as one of the five Cricketers of the Year by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 1988.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Agnew
after being dropped in his thirties.
