Cricket has taken me to many places I would not otherwise have seen and I’m grateful for that. Taylor made his Test debut at the age of 30 against New Zealand.

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Taylor was born in Stoke-on-Trent. In the fifth Test at Adelaide England were down at 132 for 6 in the second innings before Taylor added 135 with Miller and 69 more with John Emburey. Taylor holds quite a few First-Class records. Common sense prevailed, though, and Taylor came back after missing seven Championship matches in the season. Taylor did a sound job with the gloves throughout the rest of Day Two. His agility, reflex, and skills were so good that he often dismissed the idea of standing back. Abhishek Mukherjee looks at the career of the man whose best years were lost to Test cricket because he was born in the wrong country at the wrong time. Taylor’s career was thus restricted to 57 Tests compared to Knott’s 95: only one of these 57 Tests came before he had turned 36. As things turned out, Botham took 6 for 58 to bowl India out for 242. Taylor later mentioned that “As I got to him [Athey] he was kneeling down, and he looked up at me and he was shaking like a leaf.”. Cricket He did not dive a lot; he moved early enough to anticipate the line and usually gathered the ball while in a lithe gliding movement; he was brilliant against the bouncing ball. He remained Knott’s understudy till World Series Cricket changed things. The tally of 60 victims is still an England record. Unlike most of the greats, Taylor was seldom noticed on the cricket ground. Bob Taylor, born on 17 July 1941, was one of the greatest wicketkeepers of all time. With the team score on 141 for 5 Kapil Dev took one past Taylor’s edge and Hanumantha Rao declared Taylor out. The Indian seamers struck back, reducing England to 58 for five when Taylor walked out to join Botham. He scored 32, adding 89 with Geoff Miller in his comeback match at Lahore: he also picked up three victims. The 73-year-old played 57 Tests and 27 one-day internationals for England as well as playing county cricket for Derbyshire for many years. The 1,649 First-Class victims remains a world record — well clear of Middlesex’s John Murray’s 1,527, whose record he went past at Leeds in 1981. It is probably an example of the frustration Taylor had been through during his career, up against the same folly.

Taylor also shares Wasim Bari’s world record of taking 7 catches in the innings. His exceptional performance on the County circuit in 1976-77 made him a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1977. Taylor scored his only First-Class hundred against Yorkshire at Sheffield in 1981. Taylor later said: “It was ridiculous, having four wicketkeepers in one Test, but I must say I enjoyed it.”. “Any decent slip catcher could do it standing back,” he used to say.

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Born July 17, 1941, Robert William ‘Bob’ Taylor is a former England wicketkeeper and one of the all-time best in the art. Taylor made another comeback against the tourists later that season, turning up for Brian Close’s XI in the Scarborough Festival match.

He told Derbyshire CCC that he had slipped on an escalator while it actually occurred when he was playing football. Derbyshire chairman Chris Grant said: "Bob is a legend of the game and has been a tremendous supporter of cricket in the county following his retirement from the game. In fact, Taylor was so good a wicketkeeper that when he dropped a rare catch off the tearaway Derbyshire bowler Alan Ward the latter had to check with both the batsman and Taylor himself that the impossible had happened before he could believe it! Born July 17, 1941, Robert William ‘Bob’ Taylor is a former England wicketkeeper and one of the all-time best in the art. As a schoolboy, he developed keen interest in wicketkeeping and kept wickets on the cinder car park adjoining Stoke City FC’s ground near his home.

The two partnerships turned out to be crucial as Australia lost the Test by 205 runs, thereby relinquishing the Ashes. As things happened, Taylor and Botham added 88 more runs and helped England take a vital lead. And even though he did a commendable job behind the stumps, he was generally criticised by experts and the bowlers for standing up to the stumps and missing the occasional edges. He did not look back from here and went on to play for seven more years, adding 56 more Test caps.

A child prodigy, Taylor was in the school Under-15s at the age of 12. In the third Test he scored 36, adding 82 with Graham Roope. Then, with his maiden First-Class century in sight, he had a faint edge off Rodney Hogg to Kevin Wright — and walked. "We have passed on the best wishes of everyone associated with Derbyshire County Cricket Club and the county's cricket communities to his wife Cathy and his family and will continue to hold them in our thoughts.".

Earlier in the year Taylor had been played his part his first major partnership with Botham. Knott was back for the next Test at Auckland.