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Somerset’s Tom Banton, 22, becomes the youngest England player to score a T20 half-century, hitting 71 off 42 balls in a washed-out against Pakistan at Emirates Old Trafford.
The match was abandoned due to rain with England on 131-6 from 16.1 overs.
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