Is cricket in the blood? I was much surprised to read today that Michael Vaughan is a descendant - not all that directly, granted, but a descendant nevertheless - of the well-respected Lancashire batsman Ernest Tyldesley and his far more illustrious brother, Johnny, with whom the former often suffered unfair comparison
Should I have been surprised that England’s languid, richly gifted captain and opener – who bats, for all the world, in a manner utterly out of keeping with the stolid tradition of Yorkshire batsmanship (but that’s probably because he was born in Eccles) – was born out of great cricketing stock? Probably not
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