Bill Bourne and Graham Taylor

Scotland's three day-friendly at Edgbaston in August 1972 brought the first appearance in Warwickshire's senior team for Bill Bourne.

Bourne clubbed a violent 58 in his only innings with the bat to lift the Bears from a dodgy 178 for 7 to 319 all out in their first innings. He didn't have much luck with the ball though, delivering 18-4-47-0 and 4-2-10-0.

Although the match was not first-class, Warwickshire fielded quite a strong side, captained by MJK Smith and including John Jameson, John Whitehouse, Neal Abberley and Eddie Hemmings. Brian Hardie scored a dour 118 in 260 minutes for Scotland and the match was drawn. Warwickshire 319 and 199 for 5 declared. Scotland 301 for 9 declared and 198 for 6.

There were 38 leg-byes in the match. On the first day of it, the football season opened and Birmingham City, back in the First Division, lost 2-1 at home to Sheffield United while, in Division Two, Aston Villa won 1-0 at Preston. Most attention, though, centred on Sincil Bank where a crowd of 5,789 saw Lincoln City lose 2-1 to Hartlepool in a pulsating, titanic encounter in which Dixie McNeil scored a brilliant virtuoso goal for the Imps, tragically, in a losing cause.

Interestingly, future England manager Graham Taylor played right-back for Lincoln that day.

In the next match, away to Darlington, he switched to left-back.