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s a smith
....with some 4 lbs. of cocaine worth around £200,000 + in his luggage at Gatwick Aiport...not a bad test bowler in his day,still if you take the gamble..!!..
K.R.O.
Panja

4lbs? It's not an amount to be snorted at is it?

Lewis was one of those blokes who was a very good player at County level but was absolute pish when he stepped up to the three lioned shirt, a bit like Bobby Zamora or Michael Chopra, only different.
s a smith
Knocked up over 1100 runs and took 90 odd wickets in 30 odd tests,not a world beater by any means but his record was so so..
K.R.O.
scooby
Howz that?
davekermito
I'd have a crack at him feeling a proper charlie now loike.
Panja
QUOTE(s a smith @ Dec 10 2008, 12:27 PM) *
Knocked up over 1100 runs and took 90 odd wickets in 30 odd tests,not a world beater by any means but his record was so so..
K.R.O.


Smudger, you're a mine of information, a bottonless pit of knowledge, a black hole of trivia. i thank you for this.

From cricinfo.co.uksasmith:

When he wasn't posing for a magazine in his underwear, shaving his head and getting sunstroke, or turning up late for practice because of a "flat tyre", Lewis could touch the heights few in the county game can reach. His fast-medium seamers were propelled by an athletic, high action, his batting was full of exquisite onside drives and fierce cuts, and his fielding could be sensational. But, apart from some excellent bowling in the 1992 World Cup, he rarely delivered when England needed him most, and his many critics got stuck in. He started at Leicestershire, then had spells at Notts and Surrey, where he helped win the Sunday League in 1996 and the B&H in '97, before returning to Grace Road. All the time he was in and out of the Test side, despite going on six consecutive tours and hitting a hundred in a lost cause at Madras in 1992-93. But Lewis was never fully accepted by his peers, and he was ostracised further when, in 1999, it emerged that he had passed on the names of three England cricketers allegedly involved in match-fixing to the ECB. He drifted out of the game an unfulfilled talent. He returned to Surrey in 2008, aged 40, when he signed a surprise pay-as-you-play contract for the Twenty20 Cup but it didn't prove a success as injury brought it to an early end.
K.R.O.
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