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hans kraay fan club Welcome to the GSP stadium in Nicosia! Warning: our fans are rebels. They will let off flares and fireworks and will not be observing social distancing. You may go home with something more than the three points.

On that day - world cup final 1966 - I was operating the scoreboard at Basingstoke & North Hants CC (where we were living at the time). As kick-off time approached, while the players and scorers carried on with the game, I biked home, watched the final, and biked back to the ground to tell the...

Voges sort of slipped under the radar in his short but very successful Test career. In the Zs we could have had the Netherlands international, our own Bas Zuiderent - just remembered him.

Good effort. I'm ashamed I didn't put Yardy in. Zampa's first name is Adam but I see you didn't need him after all. Was a good way to while away a few hours!

Beginnings of an XYZ team 1 Younis Ahmed 2 3 Zaheer Abbas 4 Younis Khan 5 Yousuf Yohanna (pre-name change) 6 7 8 9 Yasir Arafat 10 11 Craig Young

No room for Chaminda Vaas ?

Ah memories! I went with my dad and brother to watch the 1966 West Indians at Canterbury (or was it the 1963 tour?). I took photos with my Brownie from the boundary of all those great tall West Indians in the field. But when I got them developed, all you could see was random minuscule black men...

How far back can we go? Trumper, Tate, Tyson come to mind. But James Taylor??

My dad introduced me to the joys of his batting back in the 60s. He was disappointed that he took up wicketkeeping because he said he was an excellent cover point too.

Bruce Reid was a good bowler, gives the attack a left arm option too. Maybe Mark Richardson as an opener

You cannot possibly leave Jim Parks out of this. He was surely a better bat than Matt Prior. And he could bowl a bit of legspin too!

Football and cricket are a big (too big?) part of my life. But for now there's a chance to focus on other things a bit more, which is probably a good thing. I do look forward to the return of sport one day, though.

Would the Nawab of Pataudi belong in this team or in the Ps?

Will be on BBC 1 news within next hour

Maybe switch Gower and Hammond in the order? Also consider Gooch over Cook

Barrington's average was about 58 I think, behind only Sutcliffe of England batsmen. I don't think he could be trusted to bowl in a Test though - but with Bedi in the team he shouldn't need to.

Condolences

I'm in - Cyprus please Thanks for taking the task on again, hope it goes as well as the last one.

This is interesting - not something I have ever thought about before. Anyway with the wonders of the internet I can see that on the day I was born the top teams were:- Div 1 - Spurs Div 2 - Preston Div 3 North - Rotherham Div 3 South - Forest (!!!) - we were 19th Lots of ups and downs since

I'd be up for that. Guess I'll be in pool D for the seedings!