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Family and childhood memories
Simon Hinks: my childhood start in cricket at The Green Wall, Gravesend
Childhood games on a tennis court at a cricket club with a Bowls section
A schooldays obsession with, but failure to emulate John Murray, a fine man on and off the field
Sam Relf: my father's reaction to Headingley 1981
England v. Australia, and I began to "get" cricket
Tom Riordan: watching Botham turn the match at Headingley 1981
Boycott was out, England were 500 to 1, and we thought we'd be home early
A collection of family cricket memories
Playing success, a wedding that happened and one that didn't, memories of fathers
John Waller: my father's promising career stifled
What might have been but for the war and marriage
England v. Pakistan ODI at Edgbaston
Holly Luckett and Jade Jones: Darren Gough and Denis Compton
Darren Gough, my step-father's inspiration : Denis Compton, my Grandmother's favourite
Iain Morris: letting down and then, in a way, pleasing my Grandfather
A new bat but no redemption when I finally tried cricket
Mark Butcher: my first century
Childhood memories of the weather, my bat and my hair
Stephen Weeks: autograph hunting, successfully and unsuccessfully
Fred Trueman and Geoff Boycott obliged, but Tom Graveney made sure that Basil D'Oliveira didn't
Chris Jameson: The biggest names of 1976 v. anyone who happened to call round
Childhood games with innovative Laws
