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“Our industry has lost a giant,” Kent Sanderson, Bleecker Street president and Karpen’s longtime friend, said in a statement.

With Finn Russell, Sam Prendergast, Fin Smith and Marcus Smith in the mix, the 32-year-old would have to weave through similarly heavy traffic to make his first Lions tour, but he has a big advocate in Sale coach Alex Sanderson.

"People have put other fly-halves ahead of him because of their attacking, game-breaking prowess," said Sanderson.

Rob Sanderson, senior contracts manager at Lincolnshire construction company Gelder Group, says he has seen a change in workers.

Northamptonshire have South African batter Matthew Breetzke available for the first eight games and, in Ben Sanderson, have one of the most consistent wicket-takers around, but their most important move over the winter was surely the arrival of head coach Darren Lehmann.