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Welcome along to Classic View From The Boundary,

from Test Match Special.

I'm Jonathan Agnew.

For today's episode, we're going back to 2014 in the Lord's Test Match between England

and India.

The tourists were victorious in a memorable game.

They saw Ishaan Sharma take seven wickets in the second innings.

Gary Balance scored a fine 100 for England.

On the sunny Saturday of the test, we were very fortunate to be joined by a folk music legend.

Richard Thompson came to prominence in the 1960s as the lead guitarist with Fairport Convention

and had a stellar career in the five decades since.

Listed as one of Rolling Stone magazine's top 100 guitarists in history, Thompson was awarded

an OBE in 2011 for his services to music.

So let's go back to that summer's day six years ago when Richard Thompson brought his

acoustic guitar to the Lord's commentary box.

Fantastic.

Well, I'm telling you also, acoustic guitarist, Horowitz here, it's really fantastic

through his headphones.

Richard, well, play, come and sit down, come and sit down.

There's lots of people to have arrived, but let's get you sitting here, bringing guitar

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