Thread: 05/01/'07
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Old 09-01-2007, 12:29 PM in reply to Milo's post starting "As soon as I posted it Yasser, I knew..."
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Originally Posted by Milo
We do have good players having great children, but we very rarely see (as in the case of hoping for Warne and McGrath's children) a GREAT eclipsed by their children.
This can apply not only in sport to. The usual reason is it's the mothers fault for pampering him and making him soft, and watering down such fine genes

I can think of one example of great grandchildren emulating great-grandfathers in cricket - Victor Richardson (Australia's best test batsman during the bodyline series) and his grandsons, Ian, Greg and Trevor Chappelle.
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