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Brain 2005 128(9):1957-1958; doi:10.1093/brain/awh613
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Colin Blythe was put on to bowl his slow left-arm spinners on the last afternoon of the 1907 Headingley (cricket) test match against South Africa. He took eight wickets at little cost, winning a close match and securing the series for England. But the feat left him ‘completely knocked up’ and the selectors seldom picked him again since Blythe ‘suffered from strain on his nervous system caused by playing in a test match, and the effect lasts for some time’ (see Colin Blythe by Christopher Scoble, 2005: reviewed by Mick Imlah, Times Literary Supplement, July 1, 2005). A nervous disposition did not prevent Blythe being drafted to Flanders with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry where, on November 8, 1917, a shell landed on his unit such that ‘One moment he was alive, the next he was dead.’ . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Alastair Compston

Cambridge, UK


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