By Richard Edwards
Top form: Craig Overton earned an England Test call after taking 36 wickets already for Somerset this season
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FACING Craig Overton has been no fun so far this summer but the Somerset pace bowler laughs when The Cricket Paper suggests that taking 100 wickets in a season isn’t necessarily beyond reach.
After all, he reasons, he has never even taken 50 in a County Championship campaign in the past. The odds on him surpassing that figure have shrunk considerably in a season that has already seen him claim 36 scalps at an average nearer ten than 20...
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