Video: What if your club enlisted the help of a former international captain…

Imagine your local club team suffered a laughable defeat after being bowled out for just five, which included 10 ducks, and then recruited Graeme Smith or Shaun Pollock – heavily disguised – to help win the rematch.

Imagine, too, if Smith or Pollock’s contribution wasn’t enough… almost.

Well, Goldsborough Cricket Club in the UK did exactly that – with some help from a certain former England captain.

This footage is great, lined with incidents very typical of club cricket – including awfully premeditated shot selection, comical dropped catches and a wicketkeeper copping a ball to the crotch…