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Robin Smith was back at the home of Hampshire cricket this week – a county that still views him as one of their favourite adopted sons.
Smith, alongside the likes of Shane Warne, Mark Nicholas and Nick Pocock, attended a former captains’ dinner on Tuesday night as part of a series of celebrations in the run-up to the return of Test cricket to the Sout...