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January 26, 2022 County cricket

Come and chair a county cricket club – knowledge and reasoning not essential

4 minute readIt was fun to get an insight into the reasoning of some of English cricket’s key decision-makers. Sorry, not fun – gravely concerning and wildly infuriating. There have been two big discussion points relating to county cricket in recent times: Institutional racism Its inability to produce decent Test cricketers As

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