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David Gower

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As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.


— David Gower


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It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.


— David Gower


#actions #best #give #helping #him

Nasser Hussain is brilliant. I am very impressed with him. With no disrespect to the current players, he has had to work with material which is not of the highest quality.


— David Gower


#brilliant #current #disrespect #had #highest

People are talking of his susceptibility to the rising delivery, but let me tell you that when you are out of form, every ball looks like a hand grenade.


— David Gower


#delivery #every #form #grenade #hand

So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.


— David Gower


#depends #emotion #evokes #game #here

The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty.


— David Gower


#beauty #double #hit #hundred #madras

The one major disappointment I have is that I didn't get a hundred against India in India. I got lots of runs against India in England including a double hundred I am very proud of.


— David Gower


#am #disappointment #double #england #get

The team pulled together very well, whatever we tried worked.


— David Gower


#team #together #tried #very #well

The way the tour has developed has been as good an example of that as you would like to see.


— David Gower


#developed #example #good #like #see

They have an understanding regime; they work hard and get results, they are a happy team.


— David Gower


#happy #hard #regime #results #team






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67 and then scored 1000 runs including a then career-best of 215 at 54. His mother had died a week before he left to captain the England tour to the West Indies which ended in a 5–0 defeat (Gower's second at their hands). Domestic career
Gower made his debut for Leicestershire on 30 July 1975 during that season's County Championship against Lancashire at Stanley Park Blackpool.

As of February 2013 he holds the record of 119 consecutive innings without registering a duck in Test cricket. Nevertheless he ended with an impressive record in First-class cricket accumulating 26339 runs at an average of 40. The strained relationship between the pair contributed to Gower retiring from international cricket in 1993.

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