Cricketers mark Summer Solstice

The teams played from 0500 to 2135 BST on Thursday

A group of Nottinghamshire cricketers have marked this year's Summer Solstice by playing from sunrise to sunset.

The Summer Solstice Match got under way at Radcliffe-on-Trent Cricket Club at 0500 BST - and finished at just after 2130 BST.

The teams were composed of cricketers from the local area, of a variety of ages and abilities.

In the end, an entire test match was played in one day - with the Players beating the Gentlemen by 38 runs.

BBC cricket commentator Jonathan Agnew attended the match and praised the players.

'Particularly mad'

"I love eccentrics - to play in the wind and wet and snow and everything else - there is something about cricket that attracts crazy people," he said.

"To get up at four in the morning and play cricket for all those hours qualifies as particularly mad.

"There are kids playing, old people, sons and dads - village cricket is the beginning for a lot of people."