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Cricket advances

From Mr James Welham
The Times
From Mr James Welham
The Times

Sir, Mr Geoffrey Silman (letter, June 25) suggests that Twenty20 cricket should be sponsored by an optician.

A start has been made. According to this year’s Wisden, umpires in the 2004 competition were offered free eye tests and prescription glasses under a sponsorship deal signed between the England and Wales Cricket Board and lens suppliers Sola.

JAMES WELHAM

Chiswick, London

From Dr James Heather

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Sir, The BBC website report on England’s match against Bangladesh on Sunday stated that

the miserly Flintoff dismissed Omar . . . with a yorker and the same delivery accounted for Mashrafe Mortaza two overs later.

Has Flintoff found the ultimate “slower ball”?

JAMES HEATHER

j.heather@surrey.ac.uk