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Test Match Special

Remembering Graham Gooch's 333

Test Match Special

BBC

Cricket, Sports News, News, Sports

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Dan Norcross presents a bonus TMS podcast to commemorate the 30th anniversary of one of the most famous innings ever played at Lord's: when Graham Gooch scored 333 against India in the 1st Test. You'll hear a replay of a special programme presented by Jonathan Agnew featuring archive commentary and some of the main protagonists from that memorable 1990 match including Gooch himself, Kapil Dev and Mohammad Azharuddin. Then Dan, Phil Tufnell, Andy Zaltzman and Vic Marks get together to recall their memories and talk about Gooch's England career.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:04.7

This is the TMS Podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.

0:09.8

I'm Daniel Lorcas and welcome to a special TMS Podcast.

0:14.6

30 years ago today Graham Guch completed one of the most famous innings played at lords,

0:19.8

333 in a game against India.

0:22.6

A fantastic performance with Guch adding another century in the second innings, but it was

0:27.0

actually a really special match in general.

0:29.9

There was a game which saw a brilliant 100 by Muhammad Azaruddin, an amazing one handed

0:34.5

catch from Sachin Tendulkar and Kapal Dev hitting Eddie Hemings for four successive sixes

0:40.1

to save the follow-on.

0:42.1

We're going to look back on the match more now with Aggers joined by Angus Fraser, who

0:46.0

took eight wickets in the game, Kapal, Azaruddin, Hemings and of course Graham Guch himself.

0:52.7

You're listening to the TMS Podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.

0:58.7

It was a great game of cricket all round for a lot of other performances apart from mine.

1:04.4

To come to the ground you dream about playing as a cricketer lords by far the best ground

1:10.1

in the world, my favourite ground and a lot of other cricket as a favourite ground I'm

1:13.4

sure, but one that everyone wants to play and manage to get a decent performance there

1:19.5

is brilliant.

1:20.5

I always think that how lucky and privileged I was to play and make 456 totally in that

1:28.2

match started with no runs and ended up with the most runs in a test.

1:32.5

So it's quite ironic, isn't it?

1:33.5

Well it's a great way to just read off that number of runs, the staggering number of

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