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August 13, 2008 County cricket

Lancashire get shot of Simon Marshall

< 1 minute readThis is perhaps a more interesting development than you might think. You might not have heard of Simon Marshall. He’s a leg-spinning all-rounder whose particular brand of non-spinning spin gave him great success in this year’s Twenty20 Cup: 14 wickets at 13.57 at 7.26 an over. He’s a snappy fielder

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