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Ted Dexter

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Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.


— Ted Dexter


#cricket #down #else #endless #grinds

I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.


— Ted Dexter


#another #down #dumps #else #i

Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.


— Ted Dexter


#australia #cricketers #deceive #flattered #once

Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.


— Ted Dexter


#architects #cracks #frequently #houses #i

The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.


— Ted Dexter


#national #our #very #well #whole






About Ted Dexter






Did you know about Ted Dexter?

In the First Test at Headingley Dexter selected four fast bowlers and no spinners for the team advised Gower to put Australia in to bat only to see them made 601/7 and win by 210 runs. He was the only serving officer who enlisted at the start of the war to have survived until the end and had been awarded the Military Cross a medal which sadly had now been stolen. His powerful innings enlivened the First and Second Tests and gave England a 1-0 lead in the series.

Edward Ralph Dexter CBE (born 15 May 1935 in Milan Italy) (better known as Ted Dexter and nicknamed Lord Ted) is a former English cricketer.

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