JAMIE Porter may be one of Wisden’s five Cricketers of the Year but he insists there is still a raging fire in his belly ahead of Essex’s curtainraiser at Yorkshire today.

By Charlie Bennett

Ready for the off: Essex seamer Jamie Porter will be looking to pick up where he left off last season
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