By Ronnie Irani

Ronnie Irani had a unprecedented profession as a firstclass cricketer and is now a celebrity broadcaster with talkSport. He grew up in Bolton and has his expert debut with Lancashire elderly simply sixteen. yet annoyed at consistently enjoying within the 'stiffs', Ronnie took his braveness in either arms and moved to Essex - although he was once merely vaguely conscious it used to be someplace close to the Dartford Tunnel. He turned one of many county's all-time nice avid gamers, went directly to captain them to 3 trophies and have become a legend with the enthusiasts. Ronnie is sometimes sincere approximately his relationships within the video game - sturdy and undesirable; he relates how he used unconventional clinical recommendation to beat profession threatening accidents; he is taking you out to the crease and again within the dressing room; he grants bright insights into the humour and the heartache, the pains and the triumphs of being a most sensible activities big name. And time and time back he indicates why he turned a favorite with cricket supporters worldwide and why Frank Dick extra: 'Telling Ronnie Irani that what he desires to in attaining can't be performed is like lights a fuse.'

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And playing for Australia A in the World Series (this was the season in which the Australian Cricket Board included an Australia A combination in the World Series, to add interest to a competition that also featured England and Zimbabwe as well as the real Australian team), I found that I was able to do just that. More relaxed, I started making runs, including a hundred in a one-dayer against a similar English bowling attack to the one that had embarrassed me in the Tests. What I didn’t acknowledge at that time—and for quite a while afterwards—was that it was the pressure I put on myself during the Test matches that had stopped me playing naturally, and thus had brought me undone.

And, in essence, I discovered that nearly anything was possible; later I’d learn that plenty can go wrong as well. The last of my five hundreds came against Tasmania in Hobart, the end of a run that went 106 not out (v WA in Sydney), 20 and 104 (v SA in Adelaide), 153 not out (v Victoria in Sydney), 121 (v Queensland in Sydney) and 136 and 3 (v Tassie). The century at Bellerive against Tasmania was actually my most circumspect, including only eight fours and a six, but it was also in a sense my most critical, as we went into that game level, at the top of the Shield ladder, with Victoria, so a win and preferably an outright win was critical.

Of my many knocks in county cricket, one of my most pleasurable came on 8 May 2002, my 32nd birthday, for Leicestershire against Warwickshire at my new home ground, Grace Road. I had been struggling to that point of the season, and felt out of nick, which I put down to the fact that I was batting on wickets I wasn’t used to. On this day, the track was a slow seamer and after two hours I was no more than 20. If anyone at this point had told me county cricket was easy, I’d have given them a real rev up.

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