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Son of a groundsman makes debut in Sri Lanka Dan Lawrence Source:Sundayobserver He made his England debut in the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle on Thursday and it was the latest step up for a 23-year-old who played men’s cricket at the age of nine, made a hundred in the Chingford first team at 15 and scored his maiden Essex century at 17. A life in cricket was always likely for the boy who grew up on a cricket ground, living in the accommodation that comes with dad Mark’s job as groundsman at Chingford, the Essex Premier League club on the north-east edge of London. ...