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Nov 20 2008
THE already keen competition between Lancashire wicketkeepers Luke Sutton and Gareth Cross looks set to get even more intense next season....
Nov 20 2008
AS A player, coach and manager, Mike Watkinson has built his professional career in cricket....
Oct 2 2008
THE dust has hardly begun to settle on the 2008 cricket season but Mike Watkinson is already planning for next summer. The Lancashire manager was delighted with the way his players battled for their vital victories over Kent and Somerset and now wants that toughness to reinforce a title challenge in 12 months’ time....
Aug 25 2008
LANCASHIRE’S cricket manager Mike Watkinson expects his team to have a much more youthful look for this evening’s floodlit Pro40 match against Sussex at Hove....
Jul 28 2008
LANCASHIRE manager Mike Watkinson admitted his players were looking forward to a few days off after their hard-fought Division One match against Hampshire ended in a draw on Friday....
Dec 5 2007
THE old county pros would never have believed it. Just 73 days after the last match of the 2007 season ended in crushing disappointment at the Oval Lancashire’s cricketers returned to work yesterday with a two-hour fitness session at Rivington Pike....
Nov 10 2007
MIKE WATKINSON has been ruled out of contention to become the new head of the National Academy and confirmed he is remaining as Lancashire coach....
Sep 11 2007
LANCASHIRE manager Mike Watkinson has announced an unchanged 12-man squad for the crucial home match against Warwickshire at Old Trafford today....
Aug 18 2007
LANCASHIRE manager Mike Watkinson is perhaps the last man in English sport to indulge in empty compliments or praise....