Batting with Hashim Amla: "I'm in the presence of greatness here; he's watching me"

NICK FRIEND: Surrey's Ben Geddes was a child in the crowd for Amla's triple-century against England and a decade later had him at the other end for his first County Championship hundred; he reflects on the privilege of batting with an all-time great

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