David Hughes was a stalwart of the Lancashire side for more than two decades, making 10,419 first-class runs.
During the 1971 Gillette Cup semi-final against Gloucestershire on 28 July 1971, Hughes walked out to bat with the time approaching a quarter to nine in the evening and 25 runs still needed from the five remaining overs.
[1] Hughes proceeded to hit 24 off a single over bowled by John Mortimore, and set up a Lancashire win.
Hughes played for D. H. Robins' XI in South Africa in 1971/72 and for Tasmania in 1975/76 and 1976/77, and accompanied Lancashire on three overseas tours in the mid-1980s, but otherwise stayed at home; of his 447 first-class matches, only ten were not played on British soil.
As captain he oversaw a successful period for the county in limited-over cricket and they won the Refuge Assurance Cup in 1988, the Refuge Assurance League in 1989, and in 1990 became the first county to win the Benson and Hedges Cup and the NatWest Trophy in the same season.