Story Time 139 – Here comes the injured No. 11
The Final Word Cricket Podcast
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The Story of Harry Owen Rock
Harry Owen Rock was the son of Claude and played for Tasmania in Cambridge. The Doc, Doctor Owen, was at university studying medicine in the early 1920s. There's this explosion for him in 1924, which leads towards him getting an opportunity when the test players are away. He makes 127 in just 140 minutes, and then 27 not out in the second dig to win the game. But the test players return next week, and he's dropped. So 127 and 27 not out on to Boo. I mean, all this time to get in the NSW side and dropped immediately. And this is a pattern that would continue. This is like a villain, superhero villain origin story. This is what
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