Ole Mortensen - English Cricket's Great Dane
With the England-South Africa series perfectly poised, now seems as good a time as any to celebrate the Danish tax inspector who took the county game by storm.
A version of this piece originally appeared in The New European.
Ignoring the hornets’ nest that is 'French cricket', Europeans aren't renowned for putting willow to leather. Sure, there have been a few players from the continent who've played the county game. Hampshire's PJ Bakker, Somerset's Roland Lefebvre, Essex stalwart Ryan ten Doeschate - a good …
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