DEREK PRINGLE

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All eras end eventually and so it is with the Age of Tim Murtagh at Middlesex, after the canny seam and swing bowler called time on an illustrious 23-year career.
He is going out on a high, though, at least on a personal level after taking six first-innings wickets against Warwickshire this week. His county might be mired in a struggle to stay in Division One of the County Championship, but Murtagh’s high standards have yet to slacken.
Bowlers like him are made not born, each triumph and disaster logged and assessed in order to refine the product. It is an ong...