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On that subject which father and son combination scored double hundreds for Pakistan
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Javed Miandad (Me_and_dad)
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Simon Mann and inhumanity
By Jonathan Calder last year, at the start of November Add your comment below
The release of Simon Mann from Equatorial Guinea reminds us of a little cricket history.
For Simon Mann is the son of George Mann, who captained England on their 1948-9 tour of South Africa and also against New Zealand the following summer. George was the heir to a brewing fortune (think Watney Mann) and the subject of a famous John Arlott witticism.
Back in the 1950s Arlott was commentating on a match in which George was being bamboozled by the South African leg spinner “Tufty” Mann. “What we are watching here,” he remarked, ”is a clear case of Mann’s inhumanity to Mann.”
George’s father (and Simon’s grandfather) Frank Mann also captained England in South Africa – in his case on the 1922-3 tour.
It’s a long shot, but there is a clear family pedigree here. If Andrew Strauss tweaks a hamstring on the eve of the first test, maybe Simon Mann could take over the reins?
And your homework for this week: Who are the only other father and son to have captained England?
Jonathan Calder blogs at Liberal England
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4 Responses to “Simon Mann and inhumanity”
November 4th, 2009 at 12.39 am
November 4th, 2009 at 12.52 am
Colin and Chris Cowdrey.
November 4th, 2009 at 11.51 am
Chris and Colin Cowdrey?
November 5th, 2009 at 3.01 pm
Peter May and Chris Cowdrey. How else do you explain the 1988 debacle?
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