By Stan Nicholson

1 June 2015

Waqas Hussain, received his CCC Cap (no. 251) from Efren Cruz, CCC Match Manager on the day (& Cap no. 238) , to the applause of teammates, prior to the CCC Representative XI's match at Reigate Priory CC against Surrey CCC 2nd XI, on Wednesday 27 May.

From 1922 to 1947, CCC Caps were awarded to any player representing the Conference in a full representative match for the first time. Thereafter Caps were awarded (& numbered) at the discretion of the CCC Executive Council, although since the mid 1970’s they have mainly been awarded to players undertaking a major overseas tour.

With the CCC tour programme now mainly short tours to ICC Associate countries, the CCC decided to award Caps to those who have played 25 or more Representative & Tour matches.

Waqas has played 21 representative matches, plus 4 matches on the 2013 tour to Italy. Overall to date he has played 44 matches for the Conference, scored 1281 runs at an average of 33.71, with a highest score of 97 (+ 9 more scores over 50).

A full list of CCC Capped players since 1948 is here on our website. http://www.club-cricket.co.uk/capped_players