Cricket is a unique sport and every Cricket fan has special memories from watching or playing. Why don't we share ours, I'm sure there will be some fascinating ones. I'll start with the first time my dad took me to see a match.

Gloucestershire V Northamptonshire in a 40 over a side Sunday match. Northants had the Pakistani quick bowler Sarfraz Nawaz and I remember watching him batting in the nets before the game - laughing and joking while he tried to hit a ball on to a groundsman's landrover parked in the outfield.

Northants batted first and did well. Gloucester were in trouble and well behind the required run rate and it was getting very dark. A storm was coming. In came Mike Procter. He began to smack the ball all round the ground. Thunder and lightning but no rain yet. I'll never forget the image of the ball flying high through the air lit up by the lightning as he tried to catch up the run rate by putting the ball in to the car park again. Incredibly dramatic and awe inspiring for a young boy. As a Gloucestershire fan Procter was my boyhood hero, bat or ball he was wonderful to watch. Anyway, the heavens opened the game was abandonned and we did not even know who had won until the papers the next day. Gloucestershire lost on run rate - Procter needed just a few more overs - but it didn't seem to matter - we had a day to remember.

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