WHEN BEEFY & WILLIS MET

him and the team for him to get to that level.

I’ve been thinking back to when I gave Stuart his cap in Colombo and I was sat on

383 wickets and thought no one is going to worry me there, then Jimmy cruises past and now Stuart – and I love it. That is what records are there for – to be broken, although I’m safe on the runs and the hundreds I think! for me, I just really enjoy playing cricket. The moments I’m going to remember are having a beer after a series win. The records are great because they mean you’ve done well personally, you’ve stayed in the team and you’ve contributed to victories, but it is the moments you share together that stick with you. important. You need a workhorse to run uphill, bowl into the wind. You need a muscular man and that was Beefy’s job. Mike Brearley (left, with IB) had him bowling 41 overs one day from one end.

And where were you while this was going on? Sat on a chair under a cold shower in Sydney.

Well, there’s brains and there’s brawn.

Jimmy probably has the brains because he gets the wind! Most grounds have cross winds, but Headingley is the worst for running uphill and into the wind and actually we bowled at the wrong ends for nine years here. I was uphill and never got any wickets, Jim was downhill and never got any wickets and then we swapped last year and Jim got 10-45.

I remember back in 1981 I got the wind and the slope. We swapped after Bob said to Brears (skipper Mike Brearley) ‘Is there any danger of me coming down the hill with the wind?’ And he took 8-43 with it.

I was fourth change that day! There is a lot of baloney talked about captaincy, you’re only as good as the bowlers you have at your disposal. And