Phil Tufnell
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" Philip Clive Roderick "Phil" Tufnell" is an English former cricketer turned television personality. A slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler (cricket)/bowler, he played 42 Tests and 20 One Day International matches for England cricket team/England, as well as playing for Middlesex County Cricket Club/Middlesex from 1986 to 2002. With 121 Test wickets, Tufnell is, as of 2009, 35th in the list of most wickets by an England bowler and his average of 37.68 is considered high for a genuine bowler; however, Tufnell took over 1,000 wickets across all first-class cricket, and his personality, trademark behaviour and "great control of flight" when playing made him a popular sports personality. Following his retirement in 2002, Tufnell has built on his popularity with several television appearances, including winning I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (UK TV series)/I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, They Think It's All Over (TV series)/They Think It's All Over, A Question of Sport and Strictly Come Dancing.

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Wicket-keepers have got to be able to score Test match hundreds - it's as simple as that.

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Pakistan and India are very difficult places to tour, but they will take spin and you need someone with experience.

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Sport Relief money does a lot of amazing work in India and it's great that the England boys have been able to come along and see it.

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After 12 years of pain and defeat at the hands of the Aussies as a player and hearing various wisecracks and jokes at my teammates' expense, I felt it was time to give the Aussies back some of their own medicine.

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Shaun would admit himself that he was a little surprised but it might be a shrewd pick.

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Phil was asked if he preferred grass to Astroturf. He replied that he had never smoked Astroturf.

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I've got no sympathies for that man. Every time the ball came to me at Melbourne or Sydney I used to be petrified ... it was a case of get it in your hands or get it away, otherwise the flack you got was awful.

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