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Ben Duckett says shedding pounds has helped him pile on runs for England

  • Opening batter credits fitness regime for form in heat

  • Duckett stepped away from nets for four-week bootcamp

After scoring his first Test century for more than a year Ben Duckett revealed that shedding some weight has helped him to pile on the runs, with a post-winter fitness regime catapulting him into the summer in form that was glimpsed in the first two games of the series and has been obvious in the third.

“It’s an area of my career where I haven’t necessarily helped myself or been great at,” he said, after scoring a 99-ball 113 on his home ground. “The biggest thing is I’m not getting any younger and I want to keep doing this, to keep having days like this, for as long as I possibly can.”

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