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Mark Butcher: Durham’s Ben McKinney has a head for heights

Durham opener Ben McKinney followed up an impressive winter tour of Australia with England Lions by making a century in his second County Championship outing of the season, scoring 153 in his side’s one-wicket defeat to Warwickshire.

Scott Borthwick, the former Durham skipper who is now a player-coach at Chester-le-Street, believes the 20-year-old former England under-19 captain could break into the Test team this summer, and McKinney certainly catches the eye.
An aggressive left-hander who likes to play his shots, he is unusually tall for a batter, at around 6ft 7in.
Generally, young crick...

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