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April 6, 2010 County cricket

Will Smith, Durham: first-class batsman to watch in 2010

< 1 minute readWill Smith was the one batsman who didn’t score runs for Durham last year, which might not immediately mark him out as being worth watching, but the year before that he was arguably their best batsman. We’re putting the mediocre batting down to his being made captain in 2009. It’s

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April 13, 2009 County cricket

Will Smith, Durham – one to watch in 2009

< 1 minute readWe decided to make Will Smith one to watch this season in August last year. That was before he was made Durham captain. Don’t know whether that will affect him. We’d been keeping an eye on him anyway, but the match that decided it was against Hampshire at Basingstoke. The

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September 29, 2008 County cricket / West Indies

Durham’s championship winning batting

< 1 minute readDurham’s bowling attack is getting all the attention, but don’t forget that they’ve prepared pitches to suit it and their batsmen have had to bat on those very same tracks. Not many of Durham’s batsmen have prospered. Most of their 2008 averages aspire to mediocrity. Of Durham players who’ve played

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