Vic Marks

I was commentating, no ball, yep.

Saw the replays, I went, "Tough as," we both went, "Well, what's he doing? Why, why has he let the ball go?" That night, I was with Vic Marks in the hotel over the road.

The phone rang.

Um, it was the BBC Newsroom.

And that made a huge difference.

We had Vic Marks from England for two seasons.

Vic was fantastic, professional.

Heels, Greg Healy, just flicking out his little bits of turf in front of the batsmen when he was keeping wickets.

I think he's really come on this year as an off-spinner.

I was talking to Vic Marks and Vic said, well, he came into the side as a A batsman who bowled a bit of off-spin and he's now becoming an off-spinner who bats a bit.

I still think his future lies.

He's got a much higher ceiling as a batsman than as a bowler.

So all looking a bit foreboding for Somerset in their pursuit of a first ever County Championship title.

The good news from here, though, is that we've now got a chance to chat to Vic Marks, legendary all-rounder from Taunton, Somerset, England, and of course Test Match Special.

You've been coming here for, I don't know, 50 years now.

It is.

I mean, England can employ four pace bowlers as, as they did today, but also have a couple of spinners as well in Rayan Ahmed, who was in for the injured Adil, uh, Rashid, and Will Jacks, who had a real day out, Will Jacks.

So he had the second-best, um, figures by an England spinner in a home one-day international behind my friend and colleague Vic Marks, who still holds the record five for 20 against New Zealand.

But Jacks today, uh, five for 22, and if you haven't seen the ball that got the final wicket, have a look at it on the BBC iPlayer on the, on the highlights because it, it spun a mile, didn't it, from outside the off stamp? Well, you know, didn't spin a mile, but it spun a long way.

Sort of perfect off break bowler's, uh, wicket to get rid of, uh, Madushanka, the, the number 11.