When Graeme Hick made his Test debut against West Indies at Headingley in June 1991, Brough Scott wrote of him: “The promise is so fresh, so infinite, there’s a touch of sadness about it.” Appropriately enough, it was D-Day. Even if you ignore it, don’t look at it or think about it, you still know it’s there.
I’d imagine that if you read them about yourself often enough, 17,300 times perhaps, you feel their weight. These things, these truths, pile up over the years. By the time you reach episodes seven and eight, it’s mesmeric, haunting.Įxclusive ‘I wondered if I was still dreaming’ – John Simpson on the England call-up he never saw comingĪnd so on. By episode two or three it is noticeable. Over the show’s eight episodes, an accumulated 421 minutes of television, much of which is set in hotel conference rooms – my word, they have a lot of meetings, the Australian cricket team – Graeme Hick utters not one single word. Hick is the breakout star of The Test, Amazon’s docu-series on Australian cricket’s attempts at resurrection under Justin Langer. So naturally he lives there, having left Worcester, which very much was a Graeme Hick kind of place, to take up an appointment as a cricket coach, coaching being, he once said, “probably the last thing I’d want to do”. The Gold Coast, a gaudy strip of fake marble hotels, theme parks and high-rise apartments south of Brisbane, is not a very Graeme Hick kind of place.
Only now does it appear that he has attained some kind of closure, writes Jon Hotten in the Pinch Hitter.
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Graeme Hick, a man responsible for 64,000 professional runs, has lived with the ‘enigma’ tag for most of his adult life.
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