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A tale of two spinners

12:00pm Friday 11th September 2009

IT WOULD perhaps be on the trite side to analyse the previous week of Durham's season as being the tale of two spinners, but in terms of the sensationalist headlines, it appeared to be just that.

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Lessons to be learned from Pro40 rout

10:25am Friday 4th September 2009

WHILE Durham are hardly the only team to treat this season's Pro40 tournament as a convenient way of blooding younger members of their squad, the hiding handed out to them by Sussex had seemed like it was only just around the corner, although nobody had quite sensed the severity of the beating.

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Do Durham care about Pro40?

10:38am Friday 28th August 2009

WHILE both the County Championship and Pro40 games both had their moments of interruption this week, there seemed to be a sizeable proportion of the crowd being less frustrated as usual, as it meant they could switch their focus to the Oval.

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Hang on newsmen, don't get carried away

11:48am Friday 21st August 2009

THE life of a presenter on a 24 hour rolling sports news network must be a hellish existence; trapped forever in a never-ending stream of inescapable hyperbole, declaring any run-of-the-mill event as beyond comprehension of human experience or rumours as gospel truth passed down on tablets of stone from on high.

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