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Originally Posted by fredfertang

I used to get to see a lot of Majid batting - in the late 60s he played for Glamorgan, he was Majid Jahinger then, a much more exciting name imo, and BBC Wales often used to televise their matches (the reason we are lucky enough to have a record of Garry Sobers' six sixes in an over), and although, thank God, I didn't live in Wales we were close enough for my Dad to go to the trouble of getting a second TV aerial and pointing it towards Rhyl so we could watch the cricket (which thankfully didn't, unlike most of the bloody programmes, have welsh-speaking commentators)

But I digress - Majid's reputation as a dasher guaranteed a desire to watch Glamorgan bat and he was well worth the effort and, along with my great childhood hero Farokh Engineer, one of the very few sub-continental batsman we got to see. He was a bit short changed at Test level though as he had to open in 1974, and not unnaturally didn't look entirely at home there, and looking it up reminds me that he didn't get many runs in his other Tests in England, but he was a real crowd pleaser at County level, and if you ignore his Tests in England, averaged over 40 in Tests, so he clearly was good enough to make the step up

Could be if he could score a century before lunch I suppose