Nathan Astle, New Zealand - Player profile

Now you're talking. Nathan Astle produced this innings, described on our other site, King Cricket. Quite frankly you have to love a batsman who so stubbornly defies reason and not so much mugs a bowling attack, as shoots it in the face with some sort of missile before giving it a communal wedgie.

Until this point Nathan Astle had been pretty much your stock New Zealand cricketer, a middle-order batsman who bowls a bit of medium-pace. Ever since he's been a sort of liberated poster-boy for independent thought and individuality.

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