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Phil Tufnell

As a left-arm orthodox spin bowler he played 42 Tests and 20 One-day Internationals for England between 1990 and 2001, and 316 first-class matches, mainly for Middlesex.

Tufnell took 11-93 against Australia at the Oval in 1997 (for which he won the Man of the Match award after England won by 19 runs) and seven wickets in an innings against the West Indies at the Oval in 1990, but he took his 121 Test wickets with a bowling average of 37.68 across his whole Test career.

He was nicknamed "The Cat" due to his propensity to be found sleeping in the dressing room. He also acquired the nickname "Two Sugars" due to his well known love of tea.

During his illustrious career spanning over a decade with Middlesex, Tufnell took more than 1,000 first class wickets in the English game, a feat only achieved in the modern era by Phillip DeFreitas and Martin Bicknell.

His autobiography "What now?" was published in 1999.

Tufnell retired from professional cricket before the 2003 season in order to participate in the "reality television" show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! and was a team captain on the sports quiz show They Think It's All Over until 2005.

In 2004, He made two guest appearances in UK Soap opera Family Affairs. He also co-presented the game show Simply the Best that year. Tufnell also co-authored a humorous book called 'Phil Tufnell's' A To Z of Cricket' with a cricket journalist called Adam Hathaway.

In 2006, at the Allan Border Medal ceremony, Tufnell made an appearance and gave a long, humorous speech aimed at poking fun at the Aussies after their recent loss in the 2005 Ashes series. Unfortunately, these digs were taken a little too seriously by Ricky Ponting, who failed to see the fun in Tufnell's speech.

Devon Malcolm

Devon was one of England's few genuinely fast bowlers of the 1990's. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, he settled in England, making his debut for Derbyshire in 1984, and on qualifying for England in 1987, played in 40 Test Matches. He retired from the first class game in 2003, but still plays league cricket, where he says his batting is now "a lot better ".

The highlight of Devon's career was undoubtedly in 1994 when his 9 for 57 demolished and demoralised South Africa (on their return to Test cricket in England after years in the wilderness) in a way that only outstanding fast bowling can.

This feat was the best analysis by an England fast bowler in the 20th century, and was voted by Channel 4 as one of the 100 greatest sporting moments, again, of the 20th Century. He was one of Wisden's 5 cricketers of the year in 1995, who described his performance thus " Inspired by the batting of De Freitas and Gough, goaded into retaliation by a blow between the eyes form a De Villiers bouncer, and kept calm by the reggae on his Walkman in the dressing room, Devon declared to the South Africans that "you guys are history ", and so they were, as Devon bowled England to victory, and himself into the history books.

Devon now works in the sports equipment industry, and does an immense amount of work for charity, including being a vice president of the beneficiary of this match, “Cricket for Change".