"He needs the freedom to get on the ball and go in either direction, come short, pick a pass, use his turn of pace, provide for others and nick a goal himself, " said Lomas.

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Hoggard was in his element and he first struck when Sehwag, not for the first time in the series, failed to get his gloves out of the way of a short-pitched ball which then looped into Shah's lap at first slip.

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The Aamer-Amin partnership almost combined to remove Clarke on three, but this time Amin, again at short-leg, could only just get fingertips to the ball as it died on him, several feet to his left.

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The 34-year-old finished off a set-piece for his first, firing Simon Heslop's short lay-off past Harriers keeper Ross Atkins, who could only get a hand to the ball.

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