Those of us who spend our summers watching county cricket often feel a beleaguered bunch amid calls for needless reform and jeers that we are sad social misfits huddled in our anoraks. Therefore it gave fans of the much maligned county game particular pleasure last year to see Ed Smith of Kent being selected to play for England not through some streamlined ‘academy’ system but purely on account of his scoring a stack of runs in the County Champion- ship. In one prolific patch he made 135, 0, 149, 113, 203 and 108 in successive first-class innings.
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