With one round left of this year's Minor Counties Championship, Berkshire are in the hunt for their first title since 1953.

And with a Lord's appearance already this season, it seems the fallow years could be over for the county.

But despite the trophy-less decades, Berkshire has a proud cricketing tradition.

BBC Berkshire's Dominic Sullivan looks at the greatest cricketers to come out of the Royal County.

Berkshire's Famous Five:

Percy Chapman Sir Alec Bedser Peter May

Ken Barrington Gordon Greenidge

Chapman was a huge figure - in every sense - in 1920s cricket

Born in Reading, Chapman represented Berkshire in the Minor Counties Championship while studying at Cambridge University.

An attacking batsman and brilliantly athletic fielder, Chapman famously removed Sir Donald Bradman in both innings of a Test at Lord's with spectacular catches.

His finest moment came in 1926 when he was surprisingly given the captaincy for the final deciding Test of the Ashes at the Oval and led England to a thumping victory.

According to Don Bradman, Bedser bowled him the best ball he faced

Born in Reading within minutes of identical twin Eric (who also played first-class cricket), Alec Bedser was one of England's finest ever bowlers.

With 236 Test wickets at the parsimonious average of 24.89, Bedser helped to drag English cricket out of its post-war depression and into the golden decade of the 1950s.

A medium-fast bowler, his metronomic accuracy brought him over 100 wickets in a county season a staggering 11 times, and in 1953 he took 39 Ashes wickets at 17.48, including match figures of 14-99 at Trent Bridge.

Bedser's achievements were all the more remarkable given that his career suffered a seven-year hiatus because of World War II.

PBH May was every schoolboy's hero in the 1950s

Known to later generations for presiding over England's disastrous rotating-doors selection policy of the late 1980s, Peter May was an iconic figure in his cricketing prime.

Born in Reading, May was a classical batsman and authoritative captain, who led England in a record 41 Tests.

He scored over 4,000 runs in international cricket at an average of almost 47.

In 1957 he registered his highest score in Test matches, reaching 287 not out against the West Indies in a mammoth stand of 411 with Colin Cowdrey - still England's highest partnership for any wicket.

The innings was doubly significant for it helped to break Sonny Ramadhin's stranglehold over the English batsman after he had famously bamboozled them in the two previous series between the nations.

Barrington is one of eight Englishmen to retire with a Test average over 50

A hugely popular man whose jovial bearing was at odds with his often dour batting, Ken Barrington played over 80 Test matches for England.

His methodical approach and superb powers of concentration brought him almost 7,000 Test runs, with 20 centuries, at the towering average of 58.67.

Barrington, who was born and raised in Reading, went on to manage England but he tragically died of a heart attack while on tour in the Caribbean with Ian Botham's side in 1981.

England's loss...Greenidge smashed 214 at Lord's for the West Indies

Although he was born in Barbados, Gordon Greenidge's family swapped the Caribbean sun for Berkshire's cooler climes when he was still a boy.

He grew up in Reading and qualified for England through residency, but chose - wisely - to represent the country of his birth.

He formed one half of one of the most feared opening partnerships of all time with partner Desmond Haynes and was an integral part of the West Indies side that dominated world cricket for the best part of 15 years.

The high point of Greenidge's career came at Lord's in 1984 when he smashed 214 not out as the West Indies chased down a then fourth-innings record of 324 to beat England.

For good measure, he added another double century in the win at Old Trafford as West Indies steamrollered their way towards their celebrated "blackwash".