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February 12, 2019 Extras / Features

Are you David Lloyd’s unoccupied hand when Nasser Hussain is answering a question? Because we are

Over time, we’ve become more and more fascinated with one of David Lloyd’s hands. It is the one that hangs by his side when Ian Ward interviews himself and Nasser Hussain at the end of each day’s play on Sky Sports. It is not the one that holds the microphone.

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November 23, 2015 Cricket books | reviews and recommendations / Regulars

Last in the Tin Bath – a review of David Lloyd’s autobiography

Back when we reviewed Start the Car: The World According to Bumble, we suggested that rather than majoring on Lloyd’s zaniness, they might have been better off writing a traditional autobiography. Well this is what they’ve done. The result is indeed a better book. For those that don’t know, before

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March 18, 2014 Cricket books | reviews and recommendations

Start the Car: The World According to Bumble – book review

We finally got round to reading this. Oddly, this hasn’t clarified whether it’s worth reading or not. A friend who follows cricket fairly closely but who at the time hadn’t watched much of Sky’s coverage, once asked us about David Lloyd. He’d got the impression that Bumble was this self-consciously

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