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County cricket: the ever-entertaining One-Day Cup deserves more respect

Cricket fans and players enjoy this fascinating competition. The Hundred should leave it well alone

By Gary Naylor for the 99.94 Cricket Blog

Cricket fans are getting used to the nature of One-Day Cup: there is an enticing mix of youth and experience in the teams; players and fans enjoy a camaraderie that is promoted by a shared outsider status; and there are some fine matches played at the most cricket-friendly time of the year. Last year’s final was hardly a revisit to the heady days of the Gillette Cup in the 1970s, but it was a tremendous match that spawned homespun heroes and not a person lucky enough to be there will ever forget it.

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