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Five Live Cricket.

Welcome to Five Live Cricket. The new domestic season is underway. Over the next hour

we're going to be looking at some of the key issues from the opening weeks in

the county championship. 17 out of the 18 matches so far have entered in draws.

So we're going to ask if the use of the cucahborough ball has been making things harder

for the bowlers and whether or not they're going to welcome the Dukes ball back shortly with open arms.

I think I already know the answer to that one.

With us tonight we've got two England World Cup winners, Tamil Mills and Georgia

Elwhis and former test batter Mark Ramprachash.

Good evening everybody. Hello! Hello! How are we? All

good. Great. Great. Excellent. Georgia, you're playing this season of course. Looking

forward to the summer? Very much, sir so I'm looking forward to some warmer weather actually.

We've had a couple of warm-up games so far with the Southern Vipers so

so it's nice to be out of the indoor nets and back on the grass.

Mark, what is this time of year like for you?

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