A great tale from my time at the Gold Coast Dolphins in Queensland Premier Cricket. Apparently, as the story goes, back in 1994/95 the boys were playing Valleys and the Valleys team consisted of Stuart Law, Matthew Hayden, Allan Border et al. A rare time where there was no Shield or International matches over a two-week period. The Dolphins skip figured that the best option for a positive result was to win the toss and bat the entire two days. All went to plan and the boys did win the toss and duly batted for the two days, with opener Ian Redpath (not of test match fame) posting an unbeaten 194 not out. Suffice to say the boys from Valleys were none too impressed to having to field for two days with no chance of a stick of their own. After the match, as Border was heading to the car, a young third grader Dolphins lad (who went onto have a good first class career of his own) went up to Border and asked “excuse me Mr Border, can I have your autograph please?” to which Border replied “do you play for the Gold Coast son?”, “yes “said the bright eyed young fella, Border continued walking and said succinctly “no thank you” ... well maybe a little stronger