Former Manchester United and England midfielder Paul Scholes made a return to club cricket last year, having been prevented from playing the sport by Sir Alex Ferguson.
Scholes is an avid cricket fan and represented his local club Middleton as a youngster, before being forced to give it up after breaking into United's first-team. However, almost a decade after his second retirement from football in 2013, Scholes returned to the sport.
The 47-year-old represented Uppermill in Division One of the Greater Manchester Cricket League, playing alongside former Lancashire seamer Kyle Hogg. Speaking to the ECB Reporters Network, Hogg said: "Paul Scholes played all the T20s with us, and he was brilliant.
