Sun-drenched Lord's illuminates start of county cricket's six-month prose-poem

PAUL EDWARDS AT LORD'S: It was that gnarled 21-year-old, Tom Aspinwall, who snaffled the day's honours in his seventh first-class game with four wickets in 24 balls as Middlesex subsided like Gwyneth Paltrow at the Oscars

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