Team of young talent was being forged into a major force

Paul Edwards looks at an emerging team that would become England’s dominant one-day force with some of the game’s greatest personalities
Sport offers few sights as exciting as budding genius; and perhaps none as poignant as the final flowering of greatness. So what can we feel but envy when we reflect on the riches placed before Somerset’s supporters in the summer of 1974?
Even across four decades there is skittish delight in remembering the captaincy of Brian Close, who had been sacked by Yorkshire in 1970 and wa...