JACK Brooks has set his sights on becoming part of an historic achievement by winning the LV= County Championship three years in a row.

The former Oxfordshire seamer has played a key role in Yorkshire winning back-to-back Division 1 titles, the second of which was wrapped up with more than two games to spare.

Brooks, pictured, has taken 59 wickets this season to again be among the country’s leading bowlers.

But although this campaign has not finished, there is already a clear goal to become the first team to win a Championship hat-trick since the 1960s.

“We want to try and create a dynasty,” he said.

“We want to go down in history as one of the great county teams.

“A lot of us, especially the older guys, are fed up of people talking about the great Yorkshire team of the 1960s.

“We want to put our names in the record books and be talked about as legends when our careers are over.

“We’re quite capable of doing that, we’ve already got something in the record books with back-to-back titles, but if we were to get three in a row that would be a ridiculous achievement.”

The famous Yorkshire side of the 1960s was led by Brian Close, who died aged 84 on Sunday.

The former England skipper was a familiar sight at Headingley until relatively recently and Brooks is thankful he got to know the all-rounder.

He said: “Brian used to come into the ground quite a lot in the winter.

“He would always want to talk cricket if he saw you around.

“It was quite a big deal for someone like him to recognise me and want to talk.

“He was a legend of Yorkshire and England and I’m very privileged to have met him.”

Getting to know legendary names and picking up County Championship medals shows how far Brooks has come since playing village cricket for Tiddington.

His first-class debut did not come until the age of 25 and six years on the late bloomer admits it can still be hard to take it all in.

He said: “There are times when I take a moment and you have to pinch yourself to see if it’s real.

“I’ve worked really hard to get to this point and I suppose I can be very proud of my achievements, but I’m not done yet.

“From where I’ve come with my village beginnings to where I am now is a bit surreal, but I think it shows it can be done with a bit of hard work.”