Bamber’s the loan ranger when it comes to thrillers

By Richard Latham
ETHAN Bamber may never play in two more thrilling County Championship games than his appearances for Gloucestershire during a brief loan spell.
The 20-year-old Middlesex seamer jumped at the chance to extend his first-team experience by answering a summons to head west on the eve of the first Cheltenham Festival match against Leicestershire.
It helped that the call came from Richard Dawson, who had worked with Bamber during his England Under-19 days. But Gloucestershire’s head coach never have promised the drama and pressure of two four-day games that both went down ...

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