"John Norman Graham", born at Hexham, Northumberland, on 8 May 1943, was a cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club/Kent during the county's years of success in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Graham was a tall medium-fast right-arm bowler and an absolute tail-ender in terms of batting. Having played a few matches for Kent in each season from 1964, he took 104 first-class cricket/first-class wickets in the 1967 season at an average of 13.90 to come third in the national bowling averages. Kent finished as runners-up in the County Championship and won the Friends Provident Trophy/Gillette Cup, the county's most successful season for 39 years. Though little more than medium pace, Graham was able to use his height – 2.03 metres or 6 feet 8 inches – to produce the kind of bounce and lateral movement normally associated with faster bowlers.

In 1968, he was picked for the Marylebone Cricket Club/MCC match against Surrey County Cricket Club/Surrey at Lord's, an indication that he may have been in the England cricket team/England selectors' thoughts. But though he took five wickets for 54 runs in Surrey's second innings, he alone of the MCC team that match never played for England.

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Four days is pretty quick, but generally we don't get that much time between meets.

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Conference went as well as it could have gone. At this point, we have more people but not enough in certain areas to win.

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Having a field person that doesn't always come to practice isn't as bad as a runner because you really have to be in shape. Field events, there's really no cardiovascular, it's more about skills.

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The three days she's here we just practice as hard as we can.

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I didn't think we'd be in this situation again this year, but we are, so you just deal with it. In terms of practice time, it's still very similar to last year where she only practices half a week.

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