RICHARD CLARKE
AKA The Grumbler
The shadows were lengthening at Old Trafford on Tuesday evening when, with three balls left, three runs needed and nine wickets down, Noah Cornwell skied Jack Blatherwick to midwicket. The Middlesex batter dropped his shoulders when he realised two fielders were closing in but, nonetheless, went through the motions of jogging a single.
Qualification from the group stages of the Metro Bank One-Day Cup had been a knife-edge affair but it now seemed Warwickshire, not Cornwell’s side, would host Hampshire in Thursday’s quarter-final.
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