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🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Daniel Norcross gathers together four legendary West Indies players who have all been Knighted for their services to cricket and who all come from the same island.
Antigua may be only 14 miles long and just 11 miles wide, with a population 550 times smaller than the UK – but it has produced an incredible number of great cricketers.
Norcross has been speaking to Sir Andy Roberts, Sir Richie Richardson, Sir Curtly Ambrose and Sir Viv Richards.
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| 0:37.0 | I'm absolutely delighted to say that I am joined by four Antigon Knights, four of the greatest players ever to have played cricket and |
| 0:46.0 | they've got some extraordinary memories obviously of playing in England |
| 0:50.0 | almost all of them victorious. |
| 0:52.0 | Way to way far right, Sir Andy Roberts, the first Antigam ever to play Test Cricket. |
| 0:58.0 | Next to me, Sir Viv Richards, there's an awful lot to talk about there. |
| 1:03.0 | So Curly Ambrose, both of Ivans and Curly have been on Test Back Special, |
| 1:08.0 | Veterans of that, and another former Captain Sir Ritchie Richardson, all of them Knights of the Realm, all of them with |
| 1:17.3 | incredible stories to tell. |
| 1:18.6 | But I want to start with you, Sir Andy, because you were the first Antigon to play Test cricket and that must have been quite a thing, |
| 1:26.5 | quite a thing for Antilla. Yes it was, I got a call late one night that I have to go to Barbados in the very next morning to play. |
| 1:38.7 | And I had some issues because I'd fly through Barbados the day before only to be told at night that I took |
| 1:49.3 | fly back to Barbados. That's not very helpful, isn't it? That's not how you want your test career to start I wouldn't have thought. |
| 1:56.4 | Well it started one way and it's hard to end a different way. |
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