Jameson the destroyer
Warwickshire v Pakistan, a three-day tour match at Edgbaston. July, 1974. Warwickshire win the toss and bat.
Opening the bowling for the tourists is 21-year-old tyro Imran Khan. Fast and furious. Still very much a junior in his national side but clearly a colossal and precocious talent.
Jameson and Abberley open the batting for Warwickshire. Jameson, rarely defensive, takes to Imran and biffs him for 60 from his first four overs.
One of those overs begins with a dot ball. The next three deliveries are struck for four and the next lifted for six. The sixth ball brings another boundary - and is a no ball. Jameson also cracks the seventh ball to the fence. 26 off the over.
Now that's an over I would like to have seen.
Jameson finished with 88 in 64 minutes but his dismissal was not the end of the tourists' rough treatment. Eddie Hemmings lifted Intikhab Alam for three successive sixes on the way to 74.
In Pakistan's next tour match, at Trent Bridge, Imran Khan dismissed Nottinghamshire's Nirmal Nanan for two.
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Brian Halford - Brian Halford’s look at Edgbaston.
Eddie Hemmings was another one Warwickshire should never have let go.
In the same month Jameson and Kanhai put on 460 odd for the second wicket against Gloucs in 100 overs (max 1st innings then). First game I saw.
Yes I remember that Jameson and Kanhai stand against Gloucestershire. Abberley was out for 0 I think.
Indeed he was Frank