‘Thank you to team-mates and supporters for joining me on the ride’

As Michael Hill walked back to the dressing room at Stafford, he received an ovation usually reserved for a batsman who has compiled a century. Hill had made 45 – helping to move Staffordshire to the brink of securing a draw against Suffolk in their final NCCA Championship game of the season – but the […]

‘Byrney provided the best moment in my career. It was the ball of the decade’

In the days building up to the 2014 Minor Counties Championship final, Staffordshire captain Paul Goodwin announced that the showpiece would be his last county game. Goodwin would step out for the 76th time representing Staffordshire in the long format at Salisbury against Wiltshire – with the national title on the line. The wicketkeeper-batsman had already guided […]