I backed Sir Alastair Cook, made up with Ben Stokes - and went on almost as long as Jimmy Anderson! Thank you, it's been a blast writes, outgoing cricket correspondent PAUL NEWMAN after a mighty innings for Mail Sport
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PAUL NEWMAN: Cricket is a very different game now to the one I started covering as a Mail Spoirt correspondent and it is one I leave, after more than 17 years, in a more precarious state than ever.