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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Dean Jones Put On A Cricket Clinic While He Was Sick And Extremely Dehydrated
Description: Today in 1986, Australian cricketer Dean Jones stepped up during a really important match, literally leaving it all on the field as he played through high heat and humidity, dehydration, exhaustion and illness. Plus: today in 1911, the birthday of author William Golding, whose biggest novel only became a hit after being rejected over and over again.
'I can't remember a thing after 120 in that innings' (The Cricket Monthly)
William Golding (Biography)
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