Sharjah '97 | Adam Hollioake & Dougie Brown

A motley crew led by Adam Hollioake went to Sharjah in the winter of 1997 and confounded expectations by coming back with England’s first one-day title for 10 years.

England’s 1997 Akai Singer Champions Trophy squad Adam Hollioake (c), Ali Brown, Dougie Brown, Robert Croft, Mark Ealham, Matthew Fleming, Ashley Giles, Dean Headley, Graeme Hick, Ben Hollioake, Nick Knight, Peter Martin, Alec Stewart (wk), Graham Thorpe

Of the 11 players who featured in Sharjah, four weren’t selected for the World Cup a year-and-a-half later, with Fleming and Dougie Brown, so influential in that win, playing only a handful more matches between them. So did England depart too quickly from that winning formula, or was it always destined to be a glorious one-off?

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