On that day, when Test triple hundreds were still extremely rare, it felt as if we were watching history in the making
I was 17. The end of the summer term had been dominated by Italia 90 and Friday nights dabbling in snakebite and black. I had little idea what I was doing with my life, apart from extra shifts behind the bread counter at Sainsbury’s and getting down to the business of failing my first driving test, thanks to Guildford’s dystopian Stoke roundabout.
Meanwhile cricket rumbled on. Following England had become quite the cathartic wallow. Since the dazzle of the 1985 Ashes, their performances had limped from unfortunate to woeful. They had won only two series – an Ashes away romp in 1986-87 and a one-off Test against Sri Lanka.
Written by Tanya Aldred
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