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Article: 'I'll take the Gower comparisons, but I would rather set my own records'
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 30, 2009
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Young player of the year James Taylor calls to mind another
Leicestershire batsman who once won the award, writes Mark Pennell
Some three decades ago a cricketing star was announced to the
world when the sages of the Cricket Writers' Club named a blonde,
mop-topped Leicestershire batsman as their young cricketer of the
year. The year was 1978 and a rookie left-hander named David Gower
had captured the imagination of the nation's press-box luminaries to
win their landslide vote for the best under-23 cricketer in the
land.
Gower, then only 21, had just traded the wing-collared shirt of
his King's School Canterbury uniform for a green county cap
emblazoned with Leicestershire's red fox when he ...