Derek Randall, clearly taking the same amount of pleasure from playing the game as we did from watching him

Having established that Snowy was the best English fast bowler of his generation, there was one more who got away - this is Alan Ward of Derbyshire and, just five times, England - Wardy was very quick but injury and a fragile temperament meant we seldom saw him at his best

Here we have the finest England fast bowler of my youth, John Snow, looking thoughtful - doubtless he was plotting the forthcoming downfall of the opposition batsman

A sad image for a dull and dreary Monday - this is the derelict scoreboard at Lakenham in Norfolk, once the centre of cricket in the county and a ground that hosted several First Class matches - at the turn of the 21st century the ground closed to make way for housing

"Well Bowled Harold!"

This classic image of Harold Larwood was captured in the 1932 English season, so just a few months before he wreaked havoc in Australia

An inscrutable Ted Dexter, shortly after his appointment as Chairman of Selectors in 1989, pictured with his first captain,
David Gower, who seems to be finding it rather trickier to keep a straight face

'Do I give him another over or not?' is doubtless the question on David 'Yozzer' Hughes mind here as he looks into Wasim Akram's face at Lord's in 1990 - he must have called it right as
Lancashire won both Lord's finals that year and, for one of them, I was actually there😊

Douglas Jardine with the plunging neckline look - I'm a great admirer of the Iron Duke, but I don't think he carried this one off as well as Richie or The Greatest

He sometimes gets overlooked amongst his peers but
Courtney Walsh has more Test wickets than any of them - 519 wickets at 24.44 over 16 years are remarkable figures for a quick

Jim Laker and Trevor Bailey leave Westminster Abbey after the memorial service for Frank Worrell in 1967 - Laker had retired in 1964 but this was to be Bailey's last season though, at 43, he was a shadow of his former self averaging less than 20 with the bat and taking only 12 wickets

Three of Yorkshire's finest celebrate the 83rd birthday of Percy Holmes and the 75th of his famous opening partner Herbert Sutcliffe - the youthful interloper is Bill Bowes, a mere slip of a lad at 61 when, in 1969, this photo was taken

You can almost hear Knotty's delighted whoop as he stumps a crestfallen Rookie in the second innings of the Lord's Test in 1971 - he was on 35 at the time and an interesting drawn Test would very likely have been won by India had Rookie spent another hour at the crease

Chris Broad acknowledges the crowd as he reaches his first Test century at the WACA in 1986/87 and, just in case anyone missed it, he did it again at the Adelaide Oval, and then at the MCG in the next two Tests

Keith Miller and Ray Lindwall on their way to the Caribbean in 1954/55 - both had excellent series with bat and ball as the Australians bounced back from their Ashes defeat at the hands of Len Hutton's men to, on their first visit, comfortably beat West Indies 3-0

Two proper cricketers, George Hirst and Wilfred Rhodes, pictured in Australia on the 1903/04 tour - they were led by 'Plum' Warner who, in titling his account of the trip 'How We Recovered The Ashes' brought referring to the contest as 'The Ashes' back into vogue