DEREK PRINGLE

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Talent pool: Michael Atherton is among a coveted list of players who hailed from Cambridge University
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Ed Smith, the National Selector and a graduate of Cambridge University, will announce his first England Test team next Tuesday. In eras past, such a team would likely comprise several players with university backgrounds, yet that has changed, perhaps irrevocably, given MCC have decided to withdraw their funding of undergraduate cricket.
Since 2005, MCC have sponsored six university centres of cricketing excellence...