’Who says cricket’s dead?’ asks a chirpy passer-by as I arrive at Junction Oval on Sunday morning ahead of the Yarras’ first pre-season hit out to find the nets full to bursting. Certainly not me, and certainly not with spring in the offing - that brief blissful interregnum when hope has yet to encounter the first headwinds of experience.
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