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[Nasser Hussain]'s gorgeously over-the-top curtain-call at Lord's also had me wincing at the memory of Anthony Asquith's The Final Test (1953, script: Terence Rattigan), which had veteran England batsman Sam Palmer (played by Jack Warner, 59 at the time!) going out for his final innings (lbw 0) against a just slightly shimmering Shepperton painted backdrop of the Oval gasometers.
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His Last Test
As Nasser Hussain signalled his retirement from professional cricket by bombastically clocking three successive boundaries on a sunlit evening at Lord's, simultaneously to post both his own ...
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