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Month: June 2018

June 5, 2018 England

How Jos Buttler has brought a bit of culture to England’s Test team

3 minute readWe’ve always said that Jos Buttler seems much, much safer at the crease – and a far more reassuring presence for England fans – when he’s just standing there spanking sixes, all bionic eyes and adamantium wrists. We wrote about this in 2015 and Buttler himself seems to have been

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