Talk:Duke of Norfolk's XI

...which until recently traditionally raised the curtain for international touring teams to England.

I'm not sure that the past tense is necessarily accurate. It doesn't look as though the match took place this year, but that could have been a one-off due to scheduling problems.

In practice, the team was typically largely made up of Sussex players.

Has that always been the case? I think a lot depended on which counties didn't have a fixture and so had players available. And there was generally a leavening of the recently retired. JH 17:24, 10 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Having looked at some mid-1990s scorecards, I don't think there was a particular Sussex bias: for example, the 1996 match against the Indians had only two Sussex players (three if you count Tony Dodemaide, ex-Sussex), while the 1997 game against the Australians had only one Sussex player (James Hall). I've done a bit of a rewrite and made the wording there more neutral, while also mentioning the two first-class tours the team undertook. Loganberry (Talk) 13:41, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Scratch
What's a scratch cricket team? Is it worth adding the definition to this article, the cricket terminology one, or starting a new one? →Ollie (talk • contribs) 00:21, 23 February 2007 (UTC)