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1. 21. Laxman lined up

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 16 July 2007 LANCASHIRE have approached the Indian Cricket Board with a view to signing VVS Laxman for the final four games of the County Championship.

2. 22. Winker in frame for ECB job

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 27 September 2007 LANCASHIRE cricket manager Mike "Winker" Watkinson is emerging as the leading candidate to take over the role of the ECB National Academy Director.

3. 23. Watkinson salutes Lancs heroes

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 24 September 2007 LANCASHIRE cricket manager Mike Watkinson has hailed his team of heroes after they fell 25 agonising runs short of pulling off mission impossible to claim the County Championship title.

4. 24. Lancs keep up winning habit

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 17 September 2007 LANCASHIRE gave cricket manager Mike Watkinson just what he demanded ahead of their make-or-break LV County Championship title-deciding week against Surrey at The Oval.

5. 25. Freddie the fighter

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 20 March 2007 SO superhero Freddie Flintoff is fuelled by something rather less exotic than Kryptonite. Are we really shocked or surprised?The Lancastrian who has done more than any other to put cricket firmly back on the sporting map has always had a larger than life personality prone to excess.

6. 26. Lancs may pay for Hodge form

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 09 February 2007 BRAD Hodge says he is playing the best cricket of his life, but the form of the Australian batsman means Lancashire may be without him for the start of the season.

7. 27. Comment: Colin Evans column

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 06 September 2007 STUART Law is a happy, uncomplaining sort who reckons he's lucky simply to have played first-class cricket for the last 20 years. But he must wonder sometimes whether the cricketing gods have had it in for him.

8. 28. Colin Evans column

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 17 May 2007 BOMBED again in the Eurovision Song Contest, I see, with Scooch's `Flying the Flag' ending up at half mast. It's time we did something different - and cricket could cash in.

9. 29. Watkinson's Academy wait

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 29 October 2007 THE England and Wales Cricket Board have not set any date to announce who will become their next National Academy Director . . . meaning Mike Watkinson must wait to see if he has got the job.

10. 30. Harmison needs a rest cure

    Manchester Evening News, Saturday 09 June 2007 STEVE Harmison should dream about watching Joey Barton in a Newcastle United shirt next August rather than worrying about the trials and tribulations of Test match cricket.

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