There have been more famous drops, such as Herschelle Gibbs’s off Steve Waugh in the 1999 World Cup. “I’m pretty sure I was mentioned on TMS and Sky Sports at the very same time.” “I was bombarded with messages,” Scott says, wearily. De Villiers batted for another five hours. Joe Root dropped AB de Villiers at second slip, fifth ball. In January, England were playing South Africa at Cape Town. “Every time in a Test match somebody drops an easy catch and the batsman starts to score a few runs I think: ‘Here it comes.’” He knows this likely means he’s been mentioned again, on the TV or radio. At least once a season every season since, his phone will buzz with a sudden flurry of incoming messages. Twenty‑four years later, Scott is on the other end of my phone. Then he joined Durham in 1992, where he was “perhaps least celebrated”, as Stephen Brenkley wrote, “of the seasoned pros signed to ease Durham’s passage in their first years in the Championship”. He spent a decade understudying Bruce French at Nottinghamshire. And for all the time I misspent studying scorecards on Ceefax in the 1990s, I struggle to recall anything much about his career. I’ve never met Scott or ever spoken to him. Ten seconds into our conversation, Chris Scott already knows where I’m heading.
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