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Essex won England’s County Championship for the second time in three years after holding off a spirited charge by Somerset on the final day of the season on Thursday. After over 200 overs had been lost over the first three days of the match, second-placed Somerset needed to take 20 Essex wickets on the final …
The selectors took note of Tom Banton and Saqib Mahmood’s performance in the white-ball cricket in the domestic competition and included them in the national squad for the first time. Somerset’s Banton earned the reward for finishing second in the leading run-scorers’ list with 594 runs in the just-concluded Vitality Blast, while Mahmood reaped reward for …