Hayden and Langer scored 5, 654 runs together, second only to West Indian opening pair Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes (6, 482).

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Greenidge took his second, while former Essex speedster Ricky Anderson took two in a fiery five-over spell that will have impressed his new club.

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There is humor and ease in the modern era, because Greenidge, who also wrote the edgy urban comedy "Milk Like Sugar, " writes the way real people talk.

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