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May 27, 2019 England

Let us tell you about James Vince from England’s World Cup squad

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May 27, 2019 England

Let us tell you about Ben Stokes from England’s World Cup squad

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May 26, 2019 England

Let us tell you about Jason Roy from England’s World Cup squad

< 1 minute readJason Roy is originally from South Africa and he hits the ball very hard. The similarities with Kevin Pietersen don’t end there either – he also has the same shaped mouth. There the similarities pretty much do end. The noteworthy ones anyway. There are two versions of Jason Roy and

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May 26, 2019 England

Let us tell you about Joe Root from England’s World Cup squad

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May 25, 2019 England

Let us tell you about Adil Rashid from England’s World Cup squad

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May 25, 2019 England

Let us tell you about Liam Plunkett from England’s World Cup squad

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May 24, 2019 England

Let us tell you about Liam Dawson from England’s World Cup squad

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May 24, 2019 England

Let us tell you about Tom Curran from England’s World Cup squad

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May 23, 2019 England

Let us tell you about Jos Buttler from England’s World Cup squad

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May 23, 2019 England

Let us tell you about Jonny Bairstow from England’s World Cup squad

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