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February 12, 2012Posted on 02/12/2012 in Miscellaneous
Hadlee's moment
In the Hindu, K Gopinathan recalls snapping a photo of Richard Hadlee taking his record-breaking 374th Test wicket at Bangalore in 1988.
“Thank you for capturing the special moment,” Hadlee wrote on the photograph. Then Kuggeleijn rushed into the room saying he too wanted a signed photograph.
Twenty-five years later, I met Sir Richard at Friday's press conference. The great man remembered. “Yes,” he said, “You got it from a top angle, it has become history.”
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