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Tag: George Garton

August 19, 2020 County cricket

Shall we keep an eye on George Garton or what?

2 minute readIt’s probably social media that’s sapped our taste for talent-spotting. The online world is awash with people predicting great things for players. They’re usually wrong but we know as well as anyone that it’s a numbers game: predict great things for absolutely everyone and then flag up only your ‘hits’

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