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• Derbyshire escape Chesterfield pitch penalty

  14-11-2017 19:03 via bbc.co.uk
  Derbyshire escape punishment over the loss of their four-day Championship game with Kent at Chesterfield in September.
  
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• Joe Root tells England to upset Ashes odds in Australia's backyard

  14-11-2017 19:00
  England captain tells Australia to ‘bring it on’ during seriesCraig Overton likely to get call-up for first Test at GabbaJoe Root’s instructions were curt but commanding as England gave their clearest indication yet of their Ashes XI and their captain urged Australia to “bring it on” with the first Test looming.Root learned plenty from his first tour of Australia, when he was a blue-eyed freshman aged 22, averaged 27 and was removed from the line of fire by the time
  
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• Sussex: Rob Andrew ponders next head coach decision

  14-11-2017 18:30 via bbc.co.uk
  Sussex chief executive Rob Andrew says it is "really important" they appoint the right candidate as their next head coach.
  
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• Jack Leach: Somerset spinner says remodelling his action was a 'dark time'

  14-11-2017 16:21 via bbc.co.uk
  Somerset spinner Jack Leach says he is a better bowler for having gone through the "dark time" of remodelling his action.
  
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• Bounce, swing and a handy bat, Craig Overton can shine if he controls his anger | Vic Marks

  14-11-2017 16:04
  The older Overton twin is a tall, accurate fast bowler likely to play in the first Ashes Test but there must be no repeat of an ugly incident against Sussex in 2015Amid the hurly-burly and hot air that inevitably accompanies the weeks before the Brisbane Test England have encountered some genuine problems. Ben Stokes is still in the northern hemisphere and likely to remain there; Steven Finn became the late replacement who departed early with a knee problem; Jake Ball twisted an ankle in Adelaid
  
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• England go paintballing ahead of Ashes test – Stuart Broad bruised before Australia clash

  14-11-2017 14:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  STUART BROAD looked a little worse for wear after the England team went paintballing ahead of the first Ashes test.
  
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• Is cricket a doping-free zone or has anyone been looking hard enough? | Andy Bull

  14-11-2017 13:47
  The advent of T20 and increased demands on cricketers’ bodies and power mean that where the notion of performance enhancing drugs was once far-fetched, it is naive to imagine that is still the caseFor all its long, rich history for indulging boozers and gamblers and rakes, one vice cricketers never really seem to have acquired is doping. So far as the sport has ever had a problem, it’s been with the drugs that impair performance, rather the ones that enhance it. Plenty of cricketers
  
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• Tom Westley: Essex batsman to adapt England Test preparation

  14-11-2017 12:32 via bbc.co.uk
  Essex batsman Tom Westley says he will change his approach to Tests in future as he aims to win back his England spot.
  
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• Nottinghamshire: Steven Mullaney appointed new four-day and 50-over captain

  14-11-2017 11:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Nottinghamshire appoint all-rounder Steven Mullaney as club captain in four-day and 50-over cricket.
  
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• 'Bring it on' - Root on being Australia's target

  14-11-2017 07:57 via bbc.co.uk
  England captain Joe Root says he is ready to be targeted by Australia as his side prepare for their final Ashes warm-up match.
  
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• Craig Overton looks set to take place in English Ashes pace attack

  14-11-2017 07:12
  Overton and Chris Woakes to bowl ahead of untried Tom Curran in warm-upJoe Root says England expect ‘hostile’ crowds but are ‘wiser’ than 2013-14England have given the clearest indication yet of how they plan to line up in the first Ashes Test at the Gabba next week by selecting the uncapped fast bowler Craig Overton for their final warm-up fixture, against Cricket Australia XI in Townsville from Wednesday.Overton and Chris Woakes both expressed a desire to play in the ga
  
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• Ellyse Perry's excellence prompts debate over future of women's Test cricket | Geoff Lemon

  14-11-2017 02:07
  There is an understanding Tests matter and if that is the case, blocking one gender from participating is ethically unjustifiableDouble centuries creep up on you. The first hundred, and you think the player is done. They often feel the same, hence Mark Waugh’s career. From 70 to 100 is a gulf, 100 to 130 is an addendum. The 150 milestone feels kind of token. OK, I’ll clap. Then in the upper 170s, you abruptly realise – wait. This is on.So it was with Ellyse Perry last weekend a
  
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• Ashes 2017/18: Moeen Ali will get drop-kicked by Australia batsmen - Kerry O’Keeffe

  14-11-2017 01:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  ENGLAND all-rounder Moeen Ali is going to get “drop-kicked” by the Australia batsmen, Kerry O’Keeffe has warned.
  
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