"If you look back on someone’s career, there are certain events that shape what follows and that was it for me,” says Neil Riddell of his Minor Counties XI debut in the B&H Cup against Northants in 1976, aged 28. “I was a last-minute replacement and full of flu, but thought, ‘I can’t miss this opportunity’. I went in No.4, eyes streaming, nose running, made 109 not out, with eight sixes, and won the Gold Award. An absolute fairytale. The Sunday People had a six-hitting competition for the season, and I was leading it for a week or two for that one innings.”If