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• Launch of the Hundred may be delayed to 2021 if cricket season is cut short

  24-03-2020 19:20 via theguardian.com
  
  ECB prepared to postpone if season reduced to two monthsPCA opposed to any player wage cuts in light of disruptionThe Hundred faces the prospect of being pushed back to a 2021 launch date should the coronavirus pandemic reduce this year’s English cricket season to two months or fewer.This cut-off point has been revealed by Tim Bostock, Durham’s chief executive, following talks between the counties and the England and Wales Cricket Board last week that resulted in matches being suspen
  
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• The Spin | How Middlesex reject Reggie Schwarz became an early master of the googly

  24-03-2020 13:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Shwarz left for South Africa a discarded journeyman but returned to torment English batsmen before succumbing to the Spanish flu pandemicIn 1902, before what would prove Reggie Schwarz’s final summer as an Englishman, Surrey’s Henry Leveson-Gower wrote a preview of the county season in which the then Middlesex player got a brief mention. “It seems that all those who appeared for the metropolitan county last year will again be available, though Mr RO Schwarz is not likely to pla
  
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