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Telegraph | Sport | Division One: Run-feast as Fairbrother leaves stage (510 words) |
 | The curtain came down on a grand old era yesterday, but the announcement that Neil Fairbrother would retire at the end of the season after 21 years of high-class nudging and nurdling was almost overshadowed by a mixture of history, comedy and farce. |
| Fairbrother is 39 on Monday and had plenty of time to rest his creaking limbs as Chris Schofield, who hit a career-best 91, and Peter Martin, with a run-a-ball century, inspired Lancashire to their highest total against Warwickshire, beating the previous mark - 597 at Edgbaston in 1996 - by one run. |
| A career at a sports-management firm awaits Fairbrother, but there was almost a case for anger-management when the umpires erred on the extreme side of caution by offering Warwickshire the light for the second time at 3.45pm. |
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