Combined Services cricket team
The Combined Services cricket team represents the British Armed Forces.The team played at first-class level in England for more than forty years in the mid-twentieth century.They played only six first-class matches prior to World War II, but a further 57 afterwards, when the individual services had ceased to play at first-class level (apart from two matches by the Royal Air Force immediately after the War).For example, in the 1951 match against the touring South Africans the side included Brian Close, who had already played for England, and Jim Parks, Fred Titmus and Alan Moss, who would all go on to do so.[1] In one of the later matches against Warwickshire at the Mitchells and Butlers' Ground in Birmingham, the county fast-medium bowler Jack Bannister took all 10 Services wickets in an innings for 41 runs.