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December 9, 2008 County cricket

Chris Lewis forgets to discard his 4kg of cocaine before boarding the aircraft

Chris Lewis may or may not have said: “4kg of cocaine? They told me it was a sandwich and a banana for the flight.” Actually, they told him it was a load of tinned fruit. Or maybe they told him it was 4kg of cocaine disguised as tinned fruit. The

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March 17, 2008 County cricket

Chris Lewis signs for Surrey

Chris ‘shaved head, no hat’ Lewis has signed for Surrey for this season’s Twenty20 matches. He’s 40. Younger readers might like to think of Lewis as being a sort of role model for the current West Indian team. He was born in Guyana, but it’s not that. With the ball,

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