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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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David Charlesworth

Tom Banton hopes improved glovework can boost his England credentials

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Tom Banton is eager to expand England’s wicketkeeper-batter talent pool even further as he wants to put more emphasis on his work behind the stumps and emulate Jos Buttler in the white-ball set-up.

With Sam Billings omitted after a hectic past couple of weeks that saw him switch continents and formats, Banton took the gloves for the first time for England in a 20-run defeat to the West Indies in the third Twenty20

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