{"id":1035,"date":"2023-06-20T07:31:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T07:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2023-06-20T07:31:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T07:31:42","slug":"the-long-walk-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oscarnowak.com\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"The Long Walk Back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This two man play written by Dougie Blaxman totally passed me by but I fairly recently found out about it, very recently bought it online and read it over the past few days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a demonstration of how life truly can be stranger than fiction it refers to the desperate attempt former England all rounder Chris Lewis went to in order to make some money – namely smuggling 7 lbs of cocaine from St Lucia to London. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much of the play is set in the prison cells that Chris Lewis is sentenced to spend time in. The dialogue deals with his coming to terms with responsibility, greed and gross miscalculations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are some great recounts of bowling out Javed Miandad in 1992, and notably taking advice from Sir Vivian Richards. I’d like to have seen it on stage and more conversations of this ilk would have been welcome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The playwright Dougie Blaxland is a nom de plume. James Graham-Brown has worn many hats ~ a professional cricketer having played for Kent, Derbyshire, Dorset and Cornwall, who turned his hand to Schoolteaching. Graham-Brown is no stranger to writing scripts about Cricketers. Below is a clip I found on Youtube which is a one man play about a man called Colin Milburn who played alongside Jim Laker and was a force of a man in the Summer on the cricket field but booze got the better of him in the Winters. When he lost sight in one eye he still apparently had a certain joie de vivre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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