IT'S wonderful to see Lancashire's famous cricketing son Mike Atherton finally hitting international form for England in New Zealand. Atherton's form is pivotal to England's performance, and the captain has plucked victory from a disastrous winter tour, and given a new optimism for this summer's Tests against the old enemy, Australia.
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