During this match he also made his List A debut in the John Player League, taking 1-56 from eight overs, his victim being Mark Nicholas.
[1] His best years came in the early 1990s: after a winter in New Zealand with Wellington during which he topped the bowling averages and helped Wellington to win the Shell Trophy, in 1990 he recorded his best bowling figures, 7-128 against Leicestershire, and that winter he travelled with the England A team, claiming 21 first-class wickets in Sri Lanka at just 17 runs apiece, assisted by 10-84 in the first match of the tour.
[2] He continued his good form in the summer, taking a career best 67 wickets in the English season, and helping Nottinghamshire to win the Refuge Assurance League.
He went wicketless in his final first-class game, against Yorkshire, but in one-day cricket he signed off in style, with 3-17 in a ten-wicket hammering of Staffordshire in the NatWest Trophy.
Canada performed admirably against both England and New Zealand and scored over 200 in both games, the only Associate team to pass that figure.