I wish Wiltshire CCC weren't just a minor organisation.
If they ever got the chance to throw their lot in with the big boys, I'd gladly sever all my ties with Somerset and start supporting them instead.
Who was the biggest ever cricketing name to play at the County Ground? (In the cricketing sense, I hasten to add).
Fred Trueman?
I watched Alan Border trying to ping sixes through the as was then, Rendevous Club window, just as well he missed as I don't think we could have afforded to replace it.
Imran Khan, came and fielded just in front of me....my oldest was about 8 months old and crawling about by the boundary rope. I was hoping Imran didn't trip over him.
I'll own up to a frisson of excitement....Khan seemed a descendent of Genghis, via a few Moghuls, a prince among men. Had I been a bird think the knickerage might have got a bit wet.