Harmison

Harmison's was a bad ball to start the series but he ended up bowling OK in that match.

For cricket, read life: Andrew Strauss admits his 'sliding door' moment | Mike Selvey 2011

So when I got out, I thought: 'OK this is fine, this is not a precursor to what is coming any more than Harmison's ball was.'

For cricket, read life: Andrew Strauss admits his 'sliding door' moment | Mike Selvey 2011

Harmison's was a bad ball to start the series but he ended up bowling OK in that match.

For cricket, read life: Andrew Strauss admits his 'sliding door' moment | Mike Selvey 2011

It's a fantastic cast he has assembled – fellow cricketer Steve Harmison, Celtic manager Neil Lennon, snooker champion Graeme Dott, footballer turned Hollywood bad guy Vinnie Jones, boxers Barry McGuigan and Ricky Hatton who seems to live inside a giant house-sized trophy cabinet.

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So when I got out, I thought: 'OK this is fine, this is not a precursor to what is coming any more than Harmison's ball was.'

For cricket, read life: Andrew Strauss admits his 'sliding door' moment | Mike Selvey 2011

Almost four years ago, having been bowled out for 110 in Napier to lose to New Zealand by 189 runs, they left out both Matthew Hoggard and Steve Harmison and won the next two Tests to take the series – the last time, incidentally, they came from behind to win a three-match series.

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In the three matches of this series his 18 scalps have catapulted him above Andrew Flintoff, Steve Harmison, Darren Gough, Caddick and Alec Bedser in England's all-time list of Test wicket-takers.

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Durham and England fast-bowler Stephen Harmison summed it up best when he complained about the "chief executive pitches" sometimes prepared for English county cricket, meaning that the only person likely to be happy with them was the man counting the gate receipts.

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"That," adds Steve Harmison, "is as good as Stuart Broad has ever bowled in an England shirt."

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He also jettisoned Matthew Hoggard and Steve Harmison during a difficult tour of New Zealand.

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