Extending it to Cricket for a post (or maybe it could be a thread for
any Sporting story of note), I think Darren Stevens deserves a bit of recognition on here today.
He's still performing really well as an all-rounder in County Cricket at
45 years old (named as one of Wisden's 5 Cricketers of the Year this year - oldest player in 88 years to get it). And, today, he scored 190 to rescue Kent from 128-8 with a partnership of 166 - in which the number ten batsmen contributed just
1 run. Which is the highest first-class partnership in which one player scored more than 90% of the runs.
For a number of years he was just a decent but inconsistent batsman who rarely bowled and was released by Leicestershire, aged 28. It was only then, after joining Kent, that he became a regular bowler as well as middle order batter. And it's amazing that, 17 years on, he's still performing at such a high level, aged 45, as an opening bowler and number 6/7 batsman.
Wow! I tend to only follow test cricket, so I'm not familiar with Darren. But that's an amazing story. I'd love to know what flicked the switch in his head, to enable the transformation (it surely has to be a mental change?).
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