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WHERE IS CHESTER-LE-STREET?

On 18th January 2000, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? featured a chap called Peter Lee (definitely not the former Lancashire and England bowler) who battled his way up to the £500,000 mark and then faced the final question which would make him a millionaire. The...
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ALL OUT NOUGHT

I was reading something about the Olympics, and whether or not they would ever allow cricket to be one of the participating sports (my money’s on ‘not’), when my mind switched to Tokyo where they are trying to hold the Games next year, and to the last time they were...
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THE DAY I WON MY COUNTY CAP

I recently thought I’d ask a few of Kent’s stalwarts what they remembered of the day they won their county cap. To those of us for whom winning a county cap is an unattainable dream, we would imagine it was a glorious day, burnt into the memory for all time. And so,...
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THE HSBAKPIODIFE SUCCESSION

Sam Billings, the current HSBAKPIODIFE Sam Billings hit 118 in a losing cause for England against Australia in the first of three ODIs at Old Trafford the other day, and statisticians noticed that this was the first one day international hundred made by a Kent player...