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County cricket enjoys its time in the sun as storm clouds gather

It is always a melancholy time of year when the English county season comes to an end.
Oval invincible: the ground had welcomed 80,000 + Championship fans

By Matt Thacker

It is always a melancholy time of year when the English county season comes to an end.
Sure, there is plenty of overseas cricket to be enjoyed. As I write, England have just destroyed South Africa in the women’s World Cup in India, while the “50 days to go” social media messages show that the Ashes are nearly upon us.
But it is the English county season that the majority of us care most about. Battered, beaten, bruised, seemingly always in crisis but bouncing back from whatever is thrown at it.
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