Scott Oliver on the record-breaking season of former Australian captain Mark Taylor, who played at, the club that nurtured the Neville brothers

In the early months of 1988, Mark Taylor’s cricket was on a downward trajectory. He’d averaged 53 in his debut Sheffield Shield campaign, a solid 43 the next, but had endured a poor third season, averaging a meagre 25. Having just completed a degree in surveying, he even wondered whether his future might lie outside the game. So, in an effort to reboot things, he accepted Bolton League side Greenmount’s offer of £3,0...