However, it later announced that the sentence served would be one year due to a 2006 amnesty law aimed at reducing prison overcrowding.

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England have seven one-day internationals to play in India later this year, which would remove Harmison from his family for seven weeks - something he has been reluctant to do in the past.

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Strode would like to expand beyond Colorado later this year, and he hopes Phoenix will one day become a national program.

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