The Camrose Trophy is the championship between the five home countries, held over two weekends, with the host country fielding a second team to ‘make up the numbers’. My team qualified to represent England for one of those weekends – Andrew Black’s strong squad played the other – and between us we won! And yes – before you ask, I did play!

One of England’s brightest ever stars (and one of the nicest) was Tony Priday who died, aged 92, a few years ago.