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Inside The Mind: Simon Harmer

The prolific South African spinner talks to Jo Harman-McGowan about bouncing back from rejection, his second home at Chelmsford and skittling India on their home patch.

The prolific South African spinner talks to Jo Harman-McGowan about bouncing back from rejection, his second home at Chelmsford and skittling India on their home patch.
Part One: Turning point
A self-confessed “late bloomer”, Simon Harmer wasn’t a standout cricketer growing up in Pretoria. But after switching from bowling seam to spin in his mid-teens, he gradually began to make an impression, making his first-class debut for Eastern Province in 2009.
I was a fast bowler – we’ll use that term loosely – until I was about 15. I was bowling to one of the coaches in the nets at school after a trai...

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