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Tag: Keaton Jennings

February 8, 2019 England / West Indies

Something truly remarkable might be about to happen and it involves Keaton Jennings

2 minute readKeaton Jennings (via Channel 5)

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November 17, 2018 England / Sri Lanka

Keaton Jennings has become shit-hot at dropping catches

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November 8, 2018 England

Keaton Jennings has a secret and he doesn’t want anyone reliant on free-to-air cricket coverage to uncover it

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August 30, 2018 England / India

How to leave an in-swinger by Keaton Jennings

< 1 minute readIf you’re going to get out LBW, get out LBW in style. Here’s Keaton Jennings’ four-step guide to doing so. Step one: fail to leap into action Step two: leap into action Step three: start falling over Step four: run away and hope no-one notices

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August 21, 2018 England / India

When Virat Kohli edged to Keaton Jennings – a breakdown of the finest missed catch you’ll ever see

4 minute readThere’s basically nothing left as an England fan other than to become a connoisseur of missed catches. Keaton Jennings failing to make meaningful use of his own hands when Virat Kohli edged the ball to him on 93 was one of the greatest misses we’ve ever seen. There are three

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December 8, 2016 England / India

Keaton Jennings: first look in Test cricket

< 1 minute readWe don’t believe you can draw meaningful conclusions from debut performances – but we report on them anyway. If there’s one thing that county cricket generally doesn’t involve, it’s playing in India. You can probably think of other things it doesn’t involve, but this particular aspect seems relevant to Keaton

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December 7, 2016 England

Why Keaton Jennings’ Test debut is also great news for Jason Roy

< 1 minute readKeaton Jennings will make his Test debut against India and if there’s one aspect of this news that everyone’s talking about, it’s the fact that the Durham opener has two surnames and no first name. England are not unaware of this and they will no doubt harbour concerns about the

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September 13, 2016 County cricket

The County Championship state of play a few crucial minutes before the end of the second day

2 minute readWe could wait until the end of the day’s play before giving the latest round of County Championship matches a mid-point once-over, but why wait? Whatever we write will be out of date soon enough anyway. Might as well allow it to become so almost instantly. Keep on Keaton on

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