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On the front foot: But Hampshire’s Jimmy Adams was not always so confident
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There might never be a kid born again who dreams like Jimmy Adams. A kid who dreamed of wearing the Hampshire crest, of village greens, of walking the cobbled streets of the county as a king, all in white.
A kid who sat by the boundary at Northlands Road, Southampton, and scuttled home to bat like Robin Smith or Mark Nicholas.
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