And you thought your captain was bad!
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As your skipper is trying to pull a team together for the first games of the season (and trying to make sense out of the rambling replies he’s had to his simple request "do you want a game of cricket at the weekend"), spare a thought for Major Nigel Harvie Bennett.Good old Major Nigel Harvie Bennett was captain of Surrey in 1946 ... by mistake.The Times had a small piece about him on Monday (here). Major Nigel turned up at Lords one Spring morning in 1946, to renew his membership. It was all a bit chaotic there at the time and the ground had been used by the military during the war. ... See the complete post here
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