Phil Tufnell
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Phil Tufnell
Philip Clive Roderick "Phil" Tufnellis an English former cricketer turned television personality. A slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler, he played 42 Tests and 20 One Day International matches for England, as well as playing for Middlesex from 1986 to 2002. With 121 Test wickets, Tufnell is, as of 2015, 37th in the list of most wickets by an England bowler and his average of 37.68 is considered high for a genuine bowler; however, Tufnell took over 1,000 wickets across all...
ProfessionCricket Player
Date of Birth29 April 1966
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I've got no sympathies for that man. Every time the ball came to me at Melbourne or Sydney I used to be petrified ... it was a case of get it in your hands or get it away, otherwise the flack you got was awful.
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Pakistan and India are very difficult places to tour, but they will take spin and you need someone with experience.
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Sport Relief money does a lot of amazing work in India and it's great that the England boys have been able to come along and see it.
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Phil was asked if he preferred grass to Astroturf. He replied that he had never smoked Astroturf.
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After 12 years of pain and defeat at the hands of the Aussies as a player and hearing various wisecracks and jokes at my teammates' expense, I felt it was time to give the Aussies back some of their own medicine.
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Wicket-keepers have got to be able to score Test match hundreds - it's as simple as that.
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You can't smoke 20 a day and bowl fast.