Resistance

Phillip Wyatt: Hitting the Wicket

Phillip was born in 1959 in Bristol. He attended a local special school for deaf children in Bristol from the age of two. Then at age eleven he went to a residential special school for deaf children in Surrey, continuing on to the school's residential sixth form college.

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Here Philip describes getting out of playing cricket.

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Throughout my five years at school, I never liked cricket. I could never understand why they made us play it! Sometimes, if I didn’t want to play, I would deliberately hit the wicket when I batted to get called “OUT”, and you’d have to go cross-country running. I’d rather run than play cricket. Sometimes I’d tolerate a game.

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