Taylor's Knock the Best Since Abbas, Says Light

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GLOUCESTERSHIRE vice president John Light no doubt spoke for the vast majority of festival-goers when he upheld Chris Taylor's glorious innings against Kent as the best he has witnessed by a home player at Cheltenham since Zaheer Abbas was in his pomp in the 1970s.

A regular fixture at the festival for the past 61 years, Gloucestershire's former chairman was present when the big-hitting Australian Shaun Young ran up 237 in a winning cause against Derbyshire in 1997, still the highest-ever score made in a first- class fixture at the College Ground. In the intervening years, the county's supporters have been forced to stomach a series of outstanding performances from opposition batsmen, notably Worcestershire's Vikram Solanki and Graeme Hick, the Derbyshire duo of John Morris and Dominic Cork and Glamorgan's Matthew Maynard, who scored a hundred in each of the four innings he played here.

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Taylor's Knock the Best Since Abbas, Says Light

"It's about time we saw a major innings from one of our own," commented Light, who has felt keenly Gloucestershire's failure to win any of their prev...

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