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Anyone got any cricket related mementoes? Autographs, stumps, statues? Stuff acquired on tour and which reminds you of the trip? Feel free to open up to other sports and beyond.

What sticks in my mind is being told to clear off by Dickie Bird when I asked for his autograph. If you go to a match now, you can't stop him from giving you his autograph.

Good old Dickie!

I cannot remember ever getting an autograph of any sportsman? Sorry!

I've never asked for autograph in my life and I think my only item of Memorabillia I have is the ticket stub of the final rugby game of the 1962-63 Lions tour of South Africa, played at the Newlands in Cape Town.

It was quite a day to remember as I was working on the Cosolidated Diamond Mine in Namibia and we flew down on the company's WWII Dakota. I sat in cockpit with the pilot and he followed the coastline using it as his guide. Truly spectacular.

I keep all my match programmes and scorecards.

Alos have a couple of Axa Sunday League badges when they issued them about 20 years ago.

Match reports, yearbooks, autographs. Too many to list.

Aidan11 wrote:I keep all my match programmes and scorecards.

Alos have a couple of Axa Sunday League badges when they issued them about 20 years ago.

Match reports, yearbooks, autographs. Too many to list.

With your extensive vinyl record collection I'm surprised you've room for that lot.

hopeforthebest wrote:

Aidan11 wrote:I keep all my match programmes and scorecards.

Alos have a couple of Axa Sunday League badges when they issued them about 20 years ago.

Match reports, yearbooks, autographs. Too many to list.

With your extensive vinyl record collection I'm surprised you've room for that lot.

My son moves out next weekend. His bedroom is now going to host that.

Presumably fans take selfies of themselves with cricketers now, for their mementoes.

In India, a boy of about 14 asked for my autograph, as a genuine travelling England supporter. After refusing a dozen times, I said yes eventually, I think.

I don't take selfies.

Seems like a youngster's thing to me.

I had a bat signed by Sir Viv. Came down as patron for the channel 4 street cricket program in the late 90's. He was happy to sign things and mingle with the coaches.

Donated the bat to a cancer charity auction at Taunton Hospital a few years later. Not sure it raised more than £100.

I don't get the selfie thing, but i'm sure that more a generational thing

I have bits and bobs.

From dinner with the stars?