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Jon Lewis

Jon Lewis

FromOne Test Wonders


Jon Lewis

FromOne Test Wonders

ratings:
Length:
73 minutes
Released:
Aug 16, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This time we hear from former Gloucestershire, Surrey and Sussex seam bowler Jon Lewis, a player who took more than 1300 wickets in his professional career and someone who enjoyed enormous success in county cricket in limited-overs cricket.  Jon’s solitary Test match came against Sri Lanka at Trent Bridge in 2006, and it was the culmination of being in and around the England squad for 18 months, time that included matches in both the ODI and T20I formats. His selection was the end of a frustrating period of near misses when it came to getting his hands on a Test cap, but as with everyone else in this series, it turned out to be an end of another sort too, rather than a beginning. Let’s get started and hear Jon’s story…
Released:
Aug 16, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (8)

The history of cricket is full of great players, great teams, great matches, great series and great seasons and those stories have been told countless times. But what about the tales of players who did not scale the heights of the legends of the game, players who scaled their own personal Everest by being picked for Test cricket, only to never be selected again? That is the subject of One Test Wonders, a cricketing podcast that features episodes with players who played just one Test.