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"We were due a win against Lancashire and to have played a game like that in such an atmosphere, with the crowd behind us all the time, was just what we needed."Domestic games do not come any bigger than Yorkshire against Lancashire in a one-day knock-out and it was just about the perfect warm-up for Lord's. If we play as well as we did at Old Trafford I cannot see us losing This has been the biggest week of my life for Yorkshire. And he goes there as part of a team brimful of confidence after last Wednesday's comprehensive defeat of their fiercest rivals, Lancashire, in the NatWest Trophy quarter-finals."That was as well as we have played for a long time and it did us a world of good," he said. Number six would be perfect but I'm comfortable where I am."For all that he relished the atmosphere in Scotland's dressing room, his ambitions are fixed firmly on breaking into the England side, which is why he will have personal, as well as team, goals at Lord's today. "My batting has come on a step further but I'm happy to be seen as a bowling all-rounder I'm up to seven in the order.

I can tell you, against Pakistan, with Shoaib Ahktar at one end I'd never been so keen to be facing Wasim Akram."Hamilton's 76 against Pakistan was the outstanding performance of Scotland's campaign, although he regards himself still as a bowler who bats. On the recommendation of the umpire Jack van Geloven he was offered trials at the Yorkshire Academy and thereafter has not looked back Yorkshire's investment has paid off handsomely. Last season brought almost 100 wickets - 59 of them first-class - more than 750 runs and close consideration for England's World Cup squad, the missing of which was more than compensated when Scotland picked him.The experience, he says, set him up nicely for a season which might be coming to a peak at precisely the right moment as Yorkshire attempt to secure their first major trophy for 12 years."To be playing against - and genuinely competing with - some of the best players in the world was a fantastic experience and to have played well personally meant I was able to come out of it into the domestic season feeling very confident," Hamilton said."You play against international cricketers for your county but it is different to be facing one high-class bowler after another. Thus ended a potential career in football. Yorkshire's talented all-rounder, who is likely to emerge one way or another as a key figure in today's Benson and Hedges Super Cup final against Gloucestershire, might at this stage have been lost to cricket too had his Lancastrian father, who played at a good club standard with Sidcup, not introduced him to West Lothian.There his natural ability stood out. But then came the news that his father's career in civil engineering required that the family uproot and move back to Scotland It meant a tough choice for young Gavin.

Ten years of suburban London life had rubbed the edge from his accent but he decided, none the less, that he was not quite ready to fly solo in the metropolis. This was the plan, in any case, during the four years during which he traipsed up to Highbury every week from his home in Kent to train with Arsenal schoolboys. Sadly he has been found wanting, but Leicestershire are a compassionate outfit. Their coach, Jack Birkenshaw, will pick him up carefully and try to put him together again.. HAD GAVIN HAMILTON, aged 17, been of a mind to strike out on his own, he might just have been at Wembley this afternoon rather than Lord's. He looked for a motive, maybe he was trying a steer to third man, but there probably wasn't one.In five innings against the poorest this summer, Habib has scored 35 runs. Following Test scores of 6, 1, and 19, he was bowled for five in the first innings.Yesterday must have been Habib's last chance, but when he had scored four off 15 balls, he stood still, half-heartedly held out his bat and the keeper took the edge.

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