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Matthew Maynard is one of the great lost talents of English cricket. A touch player with a wonderful eye and the ability to destroy good bowling, he made a hundred off only 98 balls on his debut for Glamorgan against Yorkshire and played for England at 22, against the marauding West Indians in 1988. But he suffered from acute nerves, failed twice, and was instantly dropped in favour of another beginner (Kim Barnett). Out of sorts and short of money, Maynard signed up for Mike Gatting's ill-starred rebel tour of South Africa and earned a three-year ban. He won three more Test caps as England played musical chairs after conceding the Ashes in 1993, but the call came on the day his daughter was born, and he made a distracted duck. A feisty 35 at Sabina Park. Jamaica, the following winter proved to be his Test best. In 1996, he won a recall to the one-day side, and played his part in series wins over India and Pakistan with some uninhibited cameos and quicksilver fielding. In 2000, when injuries struck England's one-day squad, he received a fourth and surely final international call, but his career ended as it had begun, with a couple of tame failures. The fulfilment that international cricket never provided came on the county scene, when he captained Glamorgan to the Championship in 1997. Tim de Lisle

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