There will be a lot more than County Championship points at stake between Notts and Yorkshire with Hales,Gary Ballance and Adam Lyth among those hoping to push their cases for inclusion against Sri Lanka in MayThe final first-class match to be officially called a “Test trial” was a three-day affair in Bristol between England and “The Rest” in 1976 which, according to Wisden, and was “very ordinary” until Derek Underwood and Geoff Cope spun out the hopefuls for 48 in the fourth innings – the lowest score witnessed that season – to win by 127 runs.
Dennis Amiss,playing only four days after his head was split open by a Michael Holding bouncer while batting for the MCC against West Indies, would make a duck in England’s first innings and an unbeaten century in the moment, and only for concerns over his handling of the quicks to lead to an uncapped Mike Brearley,captain of The Rest, being preferred as opener in the first Test the following week.
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Source: theguardian.com