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• Tim Paine gets nod for Ashes as Australia overhaul Test squad

  16-11-2017 23:38
  Selectors recall player who has not played Test cricket since 2010 Cameron Bancroft and Shaun Marsh also included for first two TestsAustralia’s selectors have confirmed the remarkable, radical overhaul of their side for the first two Ashes Tests with Tim Paine and Shaun Marsh recalled, Matt Renshaw dropped, Peter Nevill overlooked and, in one final twist, Chadd Sayers called up as part of a 13-man squad. Related: Anger greets Australia’s plan to recall Tim Paine as Ashes wicketkeepe
  
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• Ashes: Mark Stoneman insists England's batsmen will be ready

  16-11-2017 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mark Stoneman has admitted England’s batsmen have faced sub-standard opposition in the build-up to the Ashes but revealed the training regime that is aiming to ensure they are ready for Australia’s pace attack.
  
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• Anger greets Australia’s plan to recall Tim Paine as Ashes wicketkeeper

  16-11-2017 16:41
  • Paine has not played Test cricket since 2010; last first-class ton 11 years ago• Stuart MacGill calls Australia selectors ‘morons masquerading as mentors’Surprise and anger from former Australia players and fans greeted reports that Tim Paine was to pip Peter Nevill to the wicketkeeper’s spot in Australia’s team for the first two Ashes Tests. Matt Renshaw, the 21-year-old opening batsman, is also due to be dropped from the squad who will be named in Brisbane a
  
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• The Joy of Six: seasons from hell | Niall McVeigh

  16-11-2017 12:55
  From Cleveland’s collapse to Ferrari’s lowest ebb and Doncaster Rovers’ destruction amid fire and fury, we look back on six calamitous campaigns Ten years before he made his name as the inscrutable, hooded overlord of the New England Patriots, Bill Belichick was handed his first chance as an NFL head coach by the Cleveland Browns, a historic franchise wounded by years of failure.Related: Will the Cleveland Browns go 0-16? After losing to the Jets, anything's possibleRelated: Ac
  
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• Mark Stoneman hits first England century of Ashes tour against CA XI

  16-11-2017 10:03
  • Day two: Cricket Australia XI 250; England 337-3• Cook (70), Root (62*) and Malan (57*) find form in first Test warm-upHaving taken the catch that ended Cricket Australia’s XI innings, a sharp one above his head at short leg, Mark Stoneman turned and sprinted from the field with the purpose of a man who went on to score England’s first century of their Ashes tour and his first for the tourists. He fell shortly after tea here in Townsville, that goal achieved but still fur
  
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• Mark Stoneman hits first century of Ashes tour against Australia XI

  16-11-2017 10:03
  • Alastair Cook returns to form before next week’s first Test
  • England 337-3 at end of second day against Australia XIHaving taken the catch that ended Cricket Australia’s XI innings, a sharp one above his head at short-leg, Mark Stoneman turned and sprinted from the field with the purpose of a man who went on to score England’s first century of their Ashes tour and his first for the tourists. He fell shortly after tea, that goal achieved but still furious – he
  
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• Ashes: England ace Chris Woakes ready to rattle Australia

  16-11-2017 01:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  CHRIS WOAKES appears ready to rattle Australia after warming up for next week’s opening Ashes Test in Brisbane with a six-wicket haul on the opening day of England’s final warm-up match.
  
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