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England stars will have the chance to shine early on in a County Championship season that will be punctuated by a number of international innovations

This spring offers something special and unusual for the cricket fan. For once it will be far easier to see an England cricketer in the shires in April than a cuckoo. By a quirk of the international fixture list there will be England cricketers everywhere, the only major absentees being those engaged in the Indian Premier League.

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