That was Dominic Cork's reaction when Brian Viner of The Independent asked if he ever raised the seam of a cricket ball. That was convincing enough. Looking ahead to the C&G Trophy final between Lancashire and Sussex, Cork looks ahead to the big match with all the downbeat insouciance of a child on Christmas Eve who suspects that Santa is bringing him a puppy. He also looks back at his career with England and his mood swings, which often hampered his progress. Read the full piece here.

I'm an aggressive cricketer, I like to get stuck in mentally, as well as physically, and there are 11 Australian cricketers very similar to me but nothing's ever said about them because they're very successful.

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