His centre, Fowler argued, had always been towards the furtherance of the standard of county cricket and from that the national team.
Whether the standard of county second XI cricket is noticeably better than this I know not, but suspect it isn't.
The patchwork standards of each county in Florida contributed to the difficulty last year in arriving at a precise tabulation of votes, delaying the results for 36 days.
Should there be no delays in implementing the EPA's new standard, hundreds of counties will soon need to begin following the EPA's process to determine compliance with the new standard and begin mitigation procedures by 2013 or 2014.
In Nassau County, for example, 76.6percentt of eighth graders met the state standard, which was the highest proportion of eighth graders achieving the standard of any county in the state.
He also proposed installing more civilians in the Police Department, studying how to buy cheap prescription drugs from Canada and imposing new standards of ethics on county business.
By the standards of this wealthy county where tutors have been hired even to teach children how to ride bicycles, the fees seemed reasonable.
Most public schools boast manicured pitches, pavilions often of county standard and field several teams in each year, all perfectly kitted out.
It has eight cricket squares, each of which can be cut and rolled into wickets of county standard, and it employs Martin Bicknell (of Surrey and England) as a coach.
The chief inspector of schools made his comments as Ofsted's regional director for the east Midlands, Chris Russell, published an open letter to education providers in Northamptonshire expressing concern about the low standards of achievement across the county, identifying weaknesses in provision across every age group.
