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After the solemn realisation at the age of 12 that I might not be good enough to play cricket for England I decided that the next best thing, , would have to suffice as a career.

I fell in love with the game as an eight-year-old at and was at when we won the Ashes for the first time in 18 years.

In my spare weekends, .

I am also steadily attempting to introduce three young boys to the game - but sometimes feel I am fighting a losing battle against the rival appeals of Tiger Woods, Lewis Hamilton and Cristiano Ronaldo.