IT was a passage of play that inspired one of cricket’s most famous one-liners.
As the South African batsman Jock Cameron was hitting the left-arm spinner Hedley Verity all around Bramall Lane, Sheffield, in 1935, the Yorkshire wicketkeeper Arthur Wood quipped: “You’ve got him in two minds, Hedley. He doesn’t know whether to hit you for four or six!” For the record, Cameron hit Verity for 30 runs in an over in the three-day tour match - three fours followed by three sixes.
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