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Article: HICK HIM OUT!(Sport)

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The Mirror (London, England)
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July 10, 1996
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Test legend Bob Willis last night called for England to dump Graeme Hick after his flat-track flop at Trent Bridge and claimed: He's been pampered too long!

Former England skipper Willis watched Hick scratch around 139 minutes for a tortured 20 against India.

Five years after Hick's Test bow, Willis admitted: "He still hasn't convinced me he's top class."

Hick holed out to a horribly miscued stroke off left-arm spinner Venkatapathy Raju, leaving him with just 189 runs from his last 11 Test innings.

The man once dubbed a "flat-track bully" has become a flat-track ...

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