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	Podcast:		Sporting Witness
	Episode:		David Steele: 'The bank clerk who went to war'
	Category:		Sports & Recreation
	Duration:		00:09:05
	Publish Date:		2019-08-15 03:00:00
	Description:		At the 1975 Ashes test at Lord's, 33-year-old David Steele became an unlikely hero to the English public on his test debut. With a mop of grey hair, glasses and a cap rather than a helmet, Steele defied the feared Australian pace attack of Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson. Christened “The Bank Clerk who Went To War” by the tabloids, Steele was sponsored by a local butcher at the rate of one lamb chop per run. He talks to Simon Watts. (Photo: David Steele in 1975)
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