YOUNG GUNS FILLING A £120M COVID HOLE

RICHARD CLARKE
AKA The Grumbler

Paul Hardcastle was not one of those unfamiliar names in the Sussex side for the Championship game with Worcestershire this week. In fact, I doubt he even plays cricket.
However, he immediately came to mind when I perused the team-sheet from the game at Hove.
Sussex had named the youngest line-up in Championship history with six teenagers, no capped players and a skipper barely into his twenties. Their average age was 19.6. Or n-n-n-n-nineteen point six, as Hardcastle’s 1985 smash hit would put it.
That number referred to the average age of a com...

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