Yorkshire v Mars

CMJ has spoken. The wise sage has contemplated the 18 best-of-all-time county XIs assembled by Times writers and has judged that the Yorkshire team of Hutton, Sutcliffe, Vaughan, Leyland, Lehmann, Hirst, Rhodes, Wood, Verity, Trueman and Bowes is the strongest and will be picked to play against the Martian XI at Headingley.

Many congratulations to John Westerby, the Yorkshire selector, although he did have a rather stronger pack to pick from than those of us selecting a county to the east of London.