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Premier League has been that it simply serves to boost bank balances, but Sam Curran has no doubt his recent outing in the tournament helped him become a better white-ball cricketer.
The younger of the two Curran brothers heads into theSunday’s second Twenty20 against
South Africa in Paarl fresh from a career-best three for 28 in Friday’s five-wicket victory at Newlands. It was a chance very much taken, too, after he was preferred in the lineup to Moeen Ali on a pitch offering turn.