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Terrific stuff. I remember playing games of cricket in the street (jumpers for goalposts etc) and if you didn't try to slog the ball into the next road you inevitably were taunted as "blocker Bailey"!

PS These games went on until advent of the John Player* Sunday League in the late 60s. *which featured John Player promotional girls handing out fags to anyone who asked

And the only televised TV cricket on a Sunday was the (Rothmans?) International Cavaliers...……………….On the Sunday games against club sides these were usually (always?) Benefit Matches. One of my mates, a very good club cricketer from Yorkshire, once took 6 for 42 in such a game against the county...

Rose-tinted glasses alert: my childhood memories (mid 1960s)feature me virtually living at the country ground during the school holidays.