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Article: Cricket: Selling trees had David stumped.(Sport)
- Article from:
- Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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Byline: Stephen Carrington
IF David Harrison was not sure whether the life of a county cricketer was for him, his opinion changed after a winter of discontent: selling Christmas trees and working 10 hours a day as a school caretaker.
The sobering off-season made the talented 21-year-old from Pontypool realise that a living on the county circuit was a privileged existence compared to some of the jobs on Civvy Street.
And the all-rounder was further spurred on in his desire to become an established professional cricketer because he was in the final ...