Today, they played the 1984 Lord's Test, the one where Gordon Greenidge made 214 not out and made it look like David Gower had declared with England 141 ahead and not 341.
I only caught the second half of the knock, which included a number of clinical hooks, a whip that sailed way beyond the square leg boundary and the hardest hit I've ever seen, crunched straight past whoever the bowler was, either Neil Foster or Ian Botham - both bowler and umpire dropped to the ground like Didier Drogba in the penalty box.
Of this period of play Wisden Almanack says:
Although England finally blocked his square cut, the midwicket and long-on boundaries saw plenty of Greenidge's 29 4s.I only saw two or three of Greenidge's famed square cuts, therefore, all of which only yielded singles. But what square cuts these were.
Some batsmen slap fours through point all day without once playing a square cut. With Greenidge, however, you got exactly what the label promised.The compact stance so full of potential energy, the slight hunch of his shoulders, the decisive certainty of his footwork, the whirl of wrists at the end, even how the peak of his cap seemed to point exactly where the ball would go - this was a man born to show the world how the square cut should be played.
