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Biography Of David Gower- The Stylish Lefty From England
David Ivon Gower is a former English cricketer who became the captain of the England cricket team during the 1980s. Described as one of the most stylish left-handed batsmen of his era, the fluffy-haired, ethereal-looking young man was England's one of the most consistent and consistently exasperating batsman of the 1980s.
Gower was born in Tunbridge Wells in 1957. His father, Richard Gower (OBE-Order of the British Empire), worked for the Colonial Service in the capital of the then British administered territory of Tanganyika, where Gower spent his early childhood. The family returned to England after Tanganyika was granted independence, when Gower was six years old, settled in Kent and later moved to Loughborough.Gower attended school at Marlborough House School in Hawkhurst from the age of 8 to 13, where he started to lean towards cricket as his preferred sport.
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