"We are noo aboot to show thee, laads..."

1. Tim Ambrose scored 52 singles in the 2009 Friends Provident Trophy.

2. When the Sri Lankans, touring New Zealand in 1991, played Canterbury, home batsman DJ Boyle was out c Hathurusinghe b Wijegunawardene.

3. In the county championship at Edgbaston in 1946, Northamptonshire, set a victory target of 107 in 55 minutes by Warwickshire, declined to go for it and ended on 14 for 0 from ten overs.

4. Wrens will often sing, clearly and beautifully, at dawn then remain silent all day until bursting into song again at dusk.

5. In 1976, Zaheer Abbas scored 3,514 runs, including 17 sixes and 460 fours, for Gloucestershire.

6. Before the Battle of El Alamein in 1942, Montgomery told his troops to "hit Rommel's corps for six".

7. On the first day of Walsall Flower Show in 1928, receipts were £541, 11s, 7d.

8. The 1988 edition of Wisden recorded in its obituary section that James William Brook had "died at Halifax on July 12, 1985".
The obituary section of the 1989 tome contained a rather sheepish expression of regret that this "should not have appeared" - although not an apology.

9. In the John Player League in 1972, Warwickshire beat Surrey on faster scoring rate at Charterhouse School in Godalming

10. When the Australian tourists played Yorkshire at Sheffield in 1938 they were informed, as they took the field, by a local resident: "Thou's playin' we' cricket fire, laads, when thou comes 'ere. We are noo aboot to show thee, laads, that thou'st no as good as thou thinks."