PETER JACKSON
Had everything gone the way he and others planned it, Dusty Hare would never have played rugby for England.
He would have captained Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club instead. The presidium at Trent Bridge during the early Seventies thought so highly of the local boy’s tactical acumen that they put him in charge of their Second XI at the age of 20. The previous year he had played in the same England schools’ team as a lad called Graham Gooch.
That Hare had been a rugby player, first and foremost, who happened to play a bit of cricket had always been taken as gospe...