Point taken, Greg. I should have mentioned Imran’s role in NSW cricket — climaxing in NSW winning the Sheffield Shield grand final in 1985. As Imran and Henry are so inter-twined that naming a Trophy after them is not as ridiculous an idea as it would sound to most.

On second thoughts, LILIMRAN Trophy to immortalise the truly great cricketers Lillee and Imran is also a good idea.

It’s strange following cricket from this distance. The last time I did this there was no internet, so the situation was quite simple. But now the world is different, and one is in the strange situation of being both very close and very far, i.e., no TV. It beats me that EuroSport shows the Africa Cup of Nations (yawn!) around the clock, when it could instead be showing some far more interesting sport from Hobart and Johannesburg (!), but that’s life. A perceptive friend is so convinced of Ponting’s demise that he bet me that the “freshly baked” (to use a German phrase) Cricketer of the Decade will average less than 40 over the rest of his career. Obviously I can’t see with my own eyes just how much conviction has disappeared from the great man’s pull shot (the topic du jour of the cognoscenti on Cricinfo), but it seems a safe bet to me that RTP will average over 40.

To Kersi’s article. I find the comments above to be largely sensible. However I thought I would add one thing: Kersi’s suggestion has a nice symmetry to it in that just as Henry contributed to Pakistani cricket, so also the Lion of Pakistan contributed to Australian cricket. Namely, Kersi forgot to mention Imran’s influential season with NSW in 1984/5, when he helped them to win the Sheffield Shield and he nurtured the young Steve Waugh in a significant way.

Still, it must be said that Imran-Lawson is an uneven partnership in that one was a great of the game and the other was not.

Either have personalised trophies for all major series or not have any.

The above mentioned four plus Frank Worrell, Viv Richards, Basil D’Oliviera, the Pataudis, the Chappells and the Hadlees deserve to be immortalised. But what about Benaud, Imran, Lillee, Botham, Waughs… ? Just a thought.

Lawson?? – given his lowly position on the stats table? Nepotism old chap?

Either forget the idea, or find a single word/name that honours both countries.

Remembering however that until the partition of India, Pakistan per se did not exist, and the teams from the 1934-35 Australian (first class only) tour of India might be appropriate, although the 3rd game in Lahore is obviously the most appropriate to treat as an earlier initial encounter, if that is sought (Wazir Ali – Ryder Cup). Perhaps the Services Team of 1945-46? Perhaps not, as no game was played in Lahore. So Kardar – Johnson Cup it is!

However, I would like to ask – who exactly were “Trans” and “Tasman”??

and there’s a particular image I could just see imortalised in wood/bronze and crystal…….