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Two Devonshire cricketers who made their Test debuts 25 years apart have intertwined stories but very different first experiences of international cricket

Some shots linger, so that years later you can still see their shape, hear their sound, when about everything else has faded. Mark Lathwell hit a lot of those in his early years. There’s one in particular his old team-mate Neil Burns can still see, from the summer of 1992. A pull off Courtney Walsh that “disappeared like a tracer bullet at head height through midwicket and blasted into the boundary boards”. Walsh laid waste to the counties in ’92; seven for 27, six for 42, six for 21, six for 33, seven for 38. But one morning in Taunton he was mastered by Lathwell, a 20-year-old kid in his first full season.

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