"I spoke to our scouting department about him and we watched him over the remainder of the season. The Spaniard said: "We had trouble controlling him last season. "It was the first part of last season when I first noticed Crouch. "I saw some videos of him in action and I immediately thought to myself that he was a good player. But in qualifying rounds, a player can be added to a squad if he is registered 24 hours before the first leg.

So Crouch will make his full Liverpool debut in Kaunas on Tuesday, with Benitez hoping his new signing can do the same sort of damage to the Lithuanians that he did to Liverpool last season. The rules are different in qualifying ties to the group stages. In the major part of the tournament, a squad has to be named before the first group match and cannot be changed until that stage if the competition is completed. Now Benitez has snapped up Crouch for £7million and it has been confirmed by UEFA that the new boy is eligible to play in Tuesday's Champions League second qualifying round first leg away to Lithuanian champions Kaunas. Crouch scored in the 2-0 win over Liverpool in January - four days after Benitez had been mauled by the critics for his team selection in the FA Cup defeat at Burnley. It was the worst week of Liverpool's domestic season, and few would have believed that five months later they would be European champions. Despite efforts to modify his action, his effectiveness was diminished and with doubts over his action, he did not play first-class cricket again..

Rafael Benitez has revealed that Peter Crouch cemented himself as the Spaniard's number one summer target when he starred for Southampton in Liverpool's most embarrassing defeat of the last Barclays Premiership campaign. Took his Test best 6 for 118 at Adelaide.Most notable moment when he blocked the final over of last Test to secure 1-0 series win on the 1967-68 tour of the West Indies.A shoulder injury in 1968 kept him out of that summer's Ashes, and in 1969 he was diagnosed with arthritis and bone wear in his elbow. A right-handed bat and left-arm fast bowler.He made his Glamorgan debut in 1960, and the first of 15 England appearances in Bombay in January 1964 on the tour to India.Prominent on 1965-66 Ashes tour. England's success has made us a little bit more recognisable, but I get more recognition in England than in Wales, which is more of a rugby nation."If Jones were to take five wickets today, however, and England go on to win the Ashes, it might even tempt Charlotte Church to change her allegiance.Like father, like son: Jeff Jones's career milestonesIvor Jeffrey Jones born 10 December 1941, Dafen, Carmarthenshire. The picture was to raise awareness of testicular cancer.During my career no player was asked - or had the body - to pose in such a manner, but Jones's appearance highlights how high-profile England's cricketers have become."I haven't received a lot of fan mail yet," he said with a wink "But if some more modelling came along, I would consider it. If I get hit for a couple of fours in an over, I have to accept that that happens and get back to my mark and try and return to bowling the right lines."Jones's success, good looks and athletic body led to him being asked to pose nude - apart from his hands covering his googlies - in Cosmopolitan magazine.