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Hello, Jonathan Agnew here for another classic view from the Boundary.

The date is August 10, 1991, and West End is playing England at the Oval.

The tourists are still a great force, but perhaps the likes of Richard and Haynes are just

past their best.

This is a game that lives long in the memory for many reasons.

Fill toughnils, six wickets in the first innings, Robyn Smith's 100, and yes a certain

broadcasting mishap involving me and Brian Johnston.

More on that in due course.

On the Saturday the test, we had a real treat as Lawrence of Arabia star Peter O'Toole paid

a visit for one of the most memorable views we've had.

With wickets tumbling in the West End is first innings, O'Toole had to rush to South

London to get to the ground.

Brian Johnston was asking the questions, but first his Peter O'Toole on the special

plays of our game holds in his heart.

I'm often asked why cricket means so much to me.

And apart from me, the reasons that it appeals to multitudes of people and has it appeal

to multitudes of people over the hundreds of years, it's this high drama.

No.

Tough luck comes on, takes a wicket, bottom returns, takes a wicket, catches, vivritions

a great king, delays his entrance, delays and delays and delays.

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