Rookie Robbie sets sights on learning from golden blunder

ROBBIE WHITE
Middlesex Wicketkeeper
YOUNG GUN

A golden duck is a fairly brutal introduction to first-class cricket but thankfully for Robbie White he had plenty of experienced heads in the Middlesex dressing room to soothe his pain.
The promising 22-yearold keeper batsman has been at the club since he was ten years old and signed his first professional contract at the start of the season, rounding off 12 years of hard graft.
An impressive 30 not out followed in a warm-up match against Durham MCCU in April but in his maiden innings for his beloved county, disaster struck.
White left hi...

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