Richard Edwards remembers a season when Gloucestershire surprised everyone by doing the double

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There had been precious little cause for the popping of champagne corks in Bristol for over 20 years when the 1999 season began under typically foreboding West Country April skies. A solitary Gillette Trophy triumph in 1973 coupled with further Lord’s success in the Benson and Hedges Cup four years later meant there was still plenty of room in the trophy cabinet at the Nevil Road ground.
The need for a bigger one would have featured fairly low down on the priority...