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A rain-wrecked Friday afternoon at Blackpool Cricket Club. The volunteers continue their hard work but Lancashire’s Royal London game against Warwickshire is destined to end in a no result. The pavilion and bars are still heaving, though, and upstairs the players and coaches sit and wait and chew fat. It is not surprising Paul Allott and I can find no spare room in wh...