PETER HARTLEY knocked over eight of his former Yorkshire teammates at Basingstoke - and then cheekily told England's chairman of selectors not to pick him!

The veteran seamer pro-duced his best performance for Hampshire, taking 8-65 as Yorkshire were bowled out for 192 in front of selectors chairman David Graveney. But his tongue wasn't too firmly in his cheek when he said: "I told him not to bother thinking about picking me. I'm too old at 39 and I think my days of international cricket are over."

As Hartley cleaned up against his old team, and counted Yorkshire skipper David Byas - who was instrumental in Hartley leaving Headingley two years ago - among his vic-tims he insisted: "I didn't go out to deliberately prove any point against Yorkshire.

"In fact, there were times I had to stop myself laughing. It's deadly serious when you're bowling against the top order batsmen, but there was a bit of mickey taking when I was running it to bowl at the tail-enders, the bowlers and the lads I used to do my training with at Yorkshire."

Hartley was also quick to pay tribute to new-ball part-ner Nixon McLean, who bowled better than his 2-33 figures from 20 overs suggested.

"I think I had his luck because he passed the bat so many times and I found edges. I said to him at the start of the day that we would bowl for an hour and take five wickets between us, but I didn't realise I would get all five."

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