The Lancashire allrounder will be 38 in October and his Indian summer has lasted longer that the Raj itself. Stanley Park has a steep grass bank above perhaps 80 yards of its boundary and children duly slid down it. Some faces were painted while others burned; there were even a few knotted handkerchiefs on the heads of the ancients. Nottinghamshire's cricketers, on the other hand, are unlikely to have such fond memories of a ground on which Lancashire will play Durham on Thursday. They have coped well with such predicaments in previous seasons but will only do so this summer if their cricket improves markedly.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 19, 2022 18:26 UTC