four and Foster four for 10. An unbeaten century from Roger Knight restored some respectability in the follow-on and the match was drawn. Surrey defeated Yorkshire by an innings during their August drive towards the title in 1971 and they won at Headingley two years later after a Robin Jackman hat trick. Yorkshire avenged these humiliations in 1974, an undefeated 142 from Boycott laying the foundations for a win with an innings to spare. Mention must also be made of Surrey’s 1992 August game at The Oval against Somerset, where Graham Thorpe stayed seven and a half hours for 216, sharing a partnership of 211 in 34 overs for the fifth wicket with the pugnacious Alistair Brown. London derbies with Middlesex took place at Lord’s during the 1975 and 1992 Spring Bank Holidays and at The Oval in August 1994 Middlesex won a memorable encounter by two wickets after a Ramprakash century in the first innings. They were set 389 from 88 overs and Mike Gatting (103) and Ramprakash (90) added 178 for the second wicket. John Carr, in the middle of an astonishing run of form, saw them home with four overs to spare, the defeat ending Surrey’s lingering hopes of the title. Derbyshire met their old holiday opponents Warwickshire on only two occasions during the period up to the new century but Mike Hendrick had happy memories of the 1980 Spring Bank Holiday match against the West Indies at Chesterfield, when he ended the tourists’ first innings with a hat trick. As for Warwickshire, they were involved in an astonishing match at Trent Bridge in the Whitsun fixture of 1968. They were still 183 behind with only seven second innings wickets remaining when Rohan Kanhai came to the wicket before lunch on the Monday. He was dropped before he had scored by, of all people, Sobers, his Test captain. Kanhai and Billy Ibadulla then shared a fourth-wicket partnership of 402 in six and three-quarter hours, Kanhai hitting a six and 36 fours in 253. Ibadulla was unbeaten with 147 when Alan Smith declared at 435 for four, leaving Nottinghamshire an academic target. Kanhai returned to the pavilion with a remark which underlined to his colleagues just how limitless were his horizons: “That’s the third time I’ve got out in the 250s.” Holiday fixtures between Worcestershire and Essex were rare and Warwickshire soon re-established relationships with their old opponents, Worcestershire. Dennis Amiss was one of the batsmen frequently among the runs but Worcestershire found their own champion in the New Zealand left-hander Glenn Turner. During Worcestershire’s second innings at New Road in May 1978, Turner used a crash helmet as a protest against the short-pitched attack of Bob Willis. Then he made an unbeaten 202 at Edgbaston in August in a high-scoring game which saw Amiss make two hundreds. Inevitably, Turner was at the centre of a high-scoring match at New Road in August 1981 when Amiss, Andrew Lloyd and Geoff Humpage made hundreds for Warwickshire, Turner responding with an unbeaten 147 as Worcestershire were set a target of 347 at nearly six an over. The home crowd slow-handclapped Amiss’s declaration – one of three in the match – as uncharitable but Turner (139) and Dipak Patel (138) thrashed 200 in 110 minutes and Worcestershire got home by six wickets with four overs to spare. But such feasts were as nothing when compared to the Spring Bank Holiday fixture on the same ground a year later. Turner was on 99 first-class hundreds when the match against Warwickshire began on a gloriously fine Saturday. His 100th hundred came before lunch and he was unbeaten with 311, the declaration being made at 501 for one. The West Indian Alvin Kallicharran, with a career-best 235on the Monday, helped ensure Changing Partners 185