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First balls, wickets & debuts memories
Ian Thomas: my debut innings, a success but it could have been better
Glamorgan v. Essex and Will Jefferson
Richard Ellis: my debut while drunk, short of sleep and after a horror journey
1983, Warwickshire v. Middlesex
Ian Crawford: my first ball, except there was no first ball - run out without facing
1975, Glamorgan v. Gloucestershire
John Barclay: my first wicket - praise from Tony Greig as I dismiss Glenn Turner
1972, Sussex v Worcestershire
Paul Parker: 1992, my first ball for Durham - and Durham's first as a First Class County
Doubts and nerves at Oxford University v. Durham: first published in "The Times"
Tony Cottey: a painful early career memory of David Lawrence and Courtney Walsh
Glamorgan v. Gloucestershire
Mark Allbrook: Dudley Owen-Thomas the victim, and the start of the Hignell/Allbrook partnership
1975, Cambridge University v. Surrey
Vic Marks: my first ball - surviving John Snow before top scoring
1975, Oxford University v. Sussex
Peter Graves: my first ball - no such thing as one to get off the mark from Fred Trueman
Immediate reality at Yorkshire v. Sussex
Paul Parker: my second ball - thought out bowled Brian Close
Cambridge University v. Somerset: my debuts for England, v. Australia, and for Durham
Jerry Groome: my first ball - out to Bernard Julien, but my friend the Umpire didn't give it
1974, Kent v. Sussex, Benson and Hedges Cup
Chris Tavare: second balls are more memorable, but fatal
Out second ball at school and for Kent v. Hampshire
Andy Brassington: my first ball - giving it back to Bill Taylor - twice
1974, Gloucestershire v. Nottinghamshire
Alastair Hignell: my first ball - a double courtesy before the reality from Robin Jackman
1974, Surrey v. Gloucestershire
Oliver Hannon-Dalby: my first wicket, Mark Ramprakash, but hard work otherwise
2008, Surrey v. Yorkshire
Jamie Spires: my first wicket, Andrew Strauss, at Lord's
2001, Middlesex v. Warwickshire
