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Article: Students provide Derbyshire pair with some useful batting practice
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- Derby Evening Telegraph
- Article date:
- May 7, 2009
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If batting practice was the primary objective of the exercise,
then Wavell Hinds and Steve Stubbings can claim it was mission
accomplished.
Centuries from Derbyshire's two most senior players on show
helped their side to 424-9 declared on the first day of their three-
day match against Leeds-Bradford UCCE at the County Ground
yesterday.
There is, of course, no such thing as a bad time for a batsman to
score a hundred and the fact that these came against one of the
universities and will not count on their first-class records matters
less than the fact that they were scored by two players who must
have productive seasons if Derbyshire are to achieve anything this
season.
Hinds, leading the ...