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• MCC get into swing of day-nighters and pink balls before the England Tests

  26-03-2017 22:28 via theguardian.com
  
  • Champion County match: MCC 332; Middlesex 9-1
  • Worcestershire’s Joe Clarke makes a fine 89With England’s first two day-night Test matches taking place in the second half of this year – at Edgbaston and Adelaide – and pink-ball cricket coming to the Championship in June, close enough to the solstice to eradicate the night element of day-night cricket, this year’s Champion County match in Abu Dhabi has a little more riding on it.That the England selectors
  
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• ECB’s new regional T20 tournament plan set for another step forward

  26-03-2017 21:09 via theguardian.com
  
  • Colin Graves trumpets ‘compelling evidence’ in favour of competition
  • First-class counties promised £1.3m a year from tournamentColin Graves, the chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, will present the 18 first-class counties with what he has described as “compelling evidence” for the creation of a Twenty20 tournament that will run from 2020.Graves and the ECB chief executive, Tom Harrison, will outline their vision for the game and ask the co
  
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• Nathan Lyon helps put Australia on top in India

  26-03-2017 14:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Australia restrict India to 248-6 and a deficit of 52 runs as they gain the upper hand in the fourth and deciding Test.
  
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• Lyon spins a web as India's first innings falters – as it happened

  26-03-2017 13:30 via theguardian.com
  
  India 248-6 at close of day two in reply to Australia’s first innings of 300Nathan Lyon’s four wickets keep Australia in touch in series decider 12.30pm BSTAnd here is the report from day two in Dharamsala: Related: Fourth Test: Lyon bags four wickets for Australia as India stagger in reply12.20pm BSTA slow moving day of nip and tuck Test cricket sprang to life after Tea when Nathan Lyon’s four wickets spun the match Australia’s way after India looked set to gain a big fi
  
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• Fourth Test: Lyon bags four wickets for Australia as India stagger in reply

  26-03-2017 13:29 via theguardian.com
  
  India 248-6 in reply to Australia’s 300 after day two of the fourth TestNathan Lyon bags four wickets as Australian bowlers tighten the screwsAustralia remain in the hunt for an elusive Test series win in India thanks to Nathan Lyon, who spun a web around India late on day two of the Dharamsala decider. The top-ranked Test side were 248-6 at stumps on Sunday, trailing the visitors by 52 runs. Lyon grabbed a haul of 4-21 during the final session, delivering the latest twist in what has been
  
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• ECB ploughs on with T20 extravaganza plan while counties scramble for cash | Vic Marks

  26-03-2017 11:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Despite plenty of misgivings about the new competition – even from those voting in favour – the promise of £1.3m for each county has stifled measured debateThe panacea of English cricket, the new T20 competition scheduled to start in 2020, will be significantly advanced at the start of this week with the representatives of the counties meeting in London in advance of their Article 50 moment. At Lord’s they are poised to wave through a change in the constitution that
  
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• Sheffield Shield final: Victorian openers put SA to sword on day one

  26-03-2017 10:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Victoria 322-3 against South Australia after day one in Alice SpringsOpeners Marcus Harris and Travis Dean punish Redbacks bowlersVictoria have enjoyed a dream start to their Sheffield Shield title defence thanks to a double-century partnership from openers Marcus Harris and Travis Dean on day one of the final against South Australia in Alice Springs. Victoria ended the opening day at Traeger Park in a commanding position at 322-3.Chasing a third successive title win, Victoria put on 224 for the
  
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• India v Australia: fourth Test, day two – live!

  26-03-2017 06:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Live updates from the opening day of the series decider in DharamsalaGet in touch with Adam on email or via Twitter 5.12am BST3rd over: India 9-0 (KL Rahul 4, Vijay 5). So close! Vijay checks a drive but it balloons out to Warner at mid-off. He puts in a body-length dive, grabbing it on the half volley. Perhaps a foot in that. He’s on strike due to another committed dive, Lyon making plenty of ground from square leg to prevent the first ball of Hazlewood’s day going to the rope. Hazl
  
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• Al-Qaida leader behind Islamabad hotel bomb 'killed by US drone'

  26-03-2017 04:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Qari Yasin is believed to be linked to the 2008 Marriott atrocity and the 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team bus An al-Qaida leader believed to be responsible for the 2008 Marriott hotel bombing in Islamabad and the deadly attack on a bus carrying Sri Lanka’s cricket team in 2009 has been killed by a US air strike, the Pentagon claims.The drone attack on Qari Yasin, “a well-known terrorist leader” with ties to the Pakistan Taliban, took place on 19 March in Paktika prov
  
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