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HOLLYWOOD MAY COME CALLING FOR YOU DEREK!

MARTIN JOHNSON

Special delivery, sign here please,” says the postman when you open the front door. The bloke looks vaguely familiar, and you say: “Anyone ever told you you look a bit like Joe Root?” And the reply comes back: “As it happens, I am Joe Root.”
Wind the clock back a few decades and this is not an impossible scenario.
In the days before central contracts, the IPL and the Big Bash, the majority of professional cricketers had to find themselves a winter job at the end of the season. Or else sign on for the dole if bowling all those overs had left th...

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