PAUL NIXON www.paulnixoncricket.com

Moving on up: Richard Gleeson has progressed to the first-class game
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As fans and players alike prepare themselves for the new season, there’ll be those at Minor Counties wondering if this will be the year they make the breakthrough and get picked up by a first-class county.
Richard Gleeson has probably been the most high-profile to progress through from a Minor County, when he joined Northants from Cumberland, a team that I also spent some time with early in my career, back in 2016.
Paceman Gleeson made a big impact at No...