Scott Oliver rewinds to the time when Indian all-rounder Kapil Dev bestrode club cricket’s stage 

For the cricketers of the Lancashire League – its clubs clustered tightly in the M65 corridor that runs from Blackburn up to Burnley and a little beyond, extending across a smattering of small mill towns to the south – Saturday June 25, 1983 was a free afternoon, a legacy of the competition’s emergence from the Victorian work regimes of the 1890s.
Had any of them switched on BBC1 to catch the day’s live cricket broadcast – the certainly more prestigious yet far less important matter, parochial...