Meet Stephen Manfield, Worcestershire's groundsperson and, therefore, winter's busiest man

NICK FRIEND - INTERVIEW: Even by New Road standards, this has been a challenging, brutal winter; we're in the middle of February, four floods in, with the county's first two home games under serious threat and a groundstaff going above and beyond

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