The scene was a favoured watering hole then of Glamorgan cricketers, and indeed opponents, on the Cathedral Road near the Sophia Gardens ground in Cardiff. This was back in 1996 towards the end of another long county season, and there I was with my great friend and colleague Adrian Dale. In marched our captain, Matthew Maynard, looking unusually excited, and it was not long before we realised why. “We’ve just signed Waqar Younis for next season,” he said.
Maynard had just returned from the meeting that clinched it in London. There were no directors of cricket in those days, and our new head coach for the next season had yet to be determined (it ended up being a little-known Zimbabwean called Duncan Fletcher), so it
