Scott Oliver lifts the lid on international stars rubbing shoulders with recreational players. This week it is West Indies’ legend Curtly Ambrose

Precisely two years before winning the first of his 14 Test Player of the Match awards – that’s one every seven games, a rate bettered only by Wasim Akram of those with more than five – Curtly Elconn Lynwall Ambrose was taking 7-42 for Chester Boughton Hall at home to Formby, six clean bowled and one caught behind.
All in, he bagged 84 Liverpool and District Cricket Competition wickets at 9.8 – some 61 of which involved a radical feng shui rethin...