When Ajaz Akhtar, then aged 33, ran in to bowl the first of 422.5 overs he sent down in Peterborough Town’s 2001 campaign, the highest number of wickets taken in a single season in the top flight of Northamptonshire league cricket was the 81 bagged by John Dennis and John Dale, both in 1965. In the 16 seasons since, it’s 73. Akhtar would go way beyond those numbers, helped by not once coming out of the attack, which in turn was assisted by him being skipper. “We had quite a weak bowling attack that year,” he deadpans.

With one ball left to bowl that season, he was still sat on 99 victims. “I said to their batter, ‘Come on mate, you can be part of history here’, and pitched it up, full and straight. He absolutely smashed it back. It was going to hit me in the forehead and I somehow stuck up my hands and caught it. Then everyone just went mad!”

With shorter matches and restricted overs now in the Northamptonshire Cricket League, it’s inconceivable anyone will again scale Jazza’s Peak.