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Nicholls595 Apr 2022 4:56pm, 23 Apr 2022 28,362 posts	0 Nicholls595 Notts running through Durham
swittle Apr 2022 5:38pm, 23 Apr 2022 86,130 posts	0 swittle daddy ton not out for Yorkshire's Hill. Northamptonshire has it all to do on Day 4.
Dooogs Apr 2022 7:14pm, 23 Apr 2022 8,537 posts	0 Dooogs Sounds like Yorkshire's most promising youngsters (Brook and Hill, plus Revis) all came from the same Cumbrian public school, bemusingly: espncricinfo.com
Cerrertonia Apr 2022 7:29pm, 23 Apr 2022 16,289 posts	0 Cerrertonia Sedbergh used to be in Yorkshire though, which is why it's ironic that Lancashire have been playing county games there. Suspect that particular public school produces a much higher number of rugby union professionals than cricketers though.
Oscar the Grouch Apr 2022 7:55pm, 23 Apr 2022 4,702 posts	0 Oscar the Grouch Bristol used to be in Somerset, is now in Avon but is where Gloucester play. Gloucester is another 20+ miles up the road.
Dooogs Apr 2022 8:05pm, 23 Apr 2022 8,538 posts	0 Dooogs Good catch, Cerre- the size of the old West Riding was ridiculous. Oscar - is Avon as a county still A Thing? I was brought up with it but assumed Avon had gone the same way as Cleveland and Humberside...
Cerrertonia Apr 2022 8:27pm, 23 Apr 2022 16,290 posts	0 Cerrertonia Bristol was in both Somerset and Gloucestershire - the river Avon was the traditional boundary. Many of our cities straddled multiple counties, that's one of the reasons we had various botched re-orgs over the years. (Manchester was mostly in Lancashire but had some parts south of the Mersey, in Cheshire; Birmingham was mostly Warwickshire but eventually included places in Staffordshire and Worcestershire.)
rf_fozzy Apr 2022 8:31pm, 23 Apr 2022 16,909 posts	0 rf_fozzy The fact that only public school attendees have the opportunities and access is what makes that fact not only unremarkable, Dooogs, but also what is an ongoing scandal. Private schools should be scrapped and consigned to history.
flanker Apr 2022 11:41pm, 23 Apr 2022 20,525 posts	0 flanker Unless the state also fund their schools so they can invest in sports, and pay the staff enough that they want to do the extra-curricular activities, it will just result in sport dying out as there'd be no young blood coming through any school channels.
ThorntonRunner Apr 2022 7:24am, 24 Apr 2022 5,813 posts	0 ThorntonRunner I suppose that's the rationale behind dynamoes and all stars aiming to get kids into clubs at the earliest age. In effect don't expect schools to do anything. And I see that whilst Leicestershire are heading for an innings defeat, at least they've lasted into day 4 unlike all the other div 2 games