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• Ben Stokes on his way to New Zealand but will not join England Ashes squad

  27-11-2017 23:21
  • All-rounder will be spending time with family and practising
  • Cricketer still waiting to hear of any police chargesBen Stokes is not on his way to join England’s Ashes squad in Australia, despite widespread speculation about the all-rounder’s plans were raised by a picture on social media which appeared to show him at Heathrow Airport. Related: England players hit with curfew by Strauss after losing first Ashes TestContinue reading...
  
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• Australia’s Cameron Bancroft takes strange Ashes day in his stride | Adam Collins

  27-11-2017 21:00
  Amid the head-butt controversy and being target of jokes over bedroom wall posters, the batsman defied it all to help break an 87-year-old recordCameron Bancroft had quite the Monday morning. Waking up, the Australian batsman’s head was all over the back pages. Not for keeping that head during the previous evening’s half‑century, but because Jonny Bairstow had decided to give it a nudge with his own. As we later learned, this is the Englishman’s preferred style of gr
  
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• Chris Sole & Stuart Whittingham available again for Scotland

  27-11-2017 19:55 via bbc.co.uk
  Hampshire's Chris Sole and Sussex's Stuart Whittingham return to the Scotland squad following a reversal of ICC rules.
  
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• England players hit with curfew by Strauss after losing first Ashes Test

  27-11-2017 19:00
  • Andrew Strauss defends ‘naive’ squad, says they need to be ‘smarter’
  • Jonny Bairstow incident leads to ban on socialising beyond midnight
  Andrew Strauss has barred his “naive” England players from going out past midnight after Jonny Bairstow’s bizarre clash of heads with Australia’s Cameron Bancroft in a bar four weeks ago dominated the end of Monday’s defeat in the first Ashes Test.Strauss, the team director, insisted it would b
  
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• Bairstow 'headbutt' something he does with rugby mates - Strauss

  27-11-2017 19:00 via bbc.co.uk
  England's Jonny Bairstow "bumped heads" with Cameron Bancroft because it is "something he does with his rugby mates", says Andrew Strauss.
  
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• England wheels in danger of coming off - Vaughan

  27-11-2017 15:45 via bbc.co.uk
  England must beat Australia in the second Ashes Test in Adelaide or it will get "messy", says former captain Michael Vaughan.
  
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• Bairstow storm in teacup shows Australia still know how to get under England skins | Jason Gillespie

  27-11-2017 14:50
  There is of course a line you do not cross but if you can get a batsman’s mind not 100% focused on what is his primary job then it’s fair game for meJonny Bairstow is an engaging cricketer who I know well from my time at Yorkshire. It was simply his quirky sense of humour that led to the clash of heads with Cameron Bancroft four weeks ago and resulted in a great Ashes Test win for Australia ending with a storm in a teacup.World cricket is a year-round circuit during which players nee
  
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• 'Headbutt' incident blown out of proportion - Bairstow

  27-11-2017 13:01 via bbc.co.uk
  England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow says his alleged headbutt on Australia's Cameron Bancroft has been "completely blown out of proportion".
  
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• Sri Lanka suffer heaviest Test defeat as India thrash tourists

  27-11-2017 12:07 via bbc.co.uk
  Sri Lanka suffer their heaviest defeat in Test history as they lose by an innings and 239 runs to India in the second Test.
  
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• Unless England are smart, the overblown ‘head-butt’ incident could derail their Ashes tour

  27-11-2017 11:58
  Seemingly trivial incidents can knock sides off course in the Ashes and, with Australia capitalising on Jonny Bairstow’s antics, England will need to be carefulCameron Bancroft, his anonymity beyond Perth and Bristol now entirely blown, delivered a scorching straight drive and the Test was won by Australia with chilling certainty after 70 minutes of play. Unbeaten on 82 on his debut he had batted most impressively alongside David Warner to ensure Australia’s emphatic 10-wicket victor
  
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• Unless England are smart, overblown ‘head-butt’ could derail their Ashes

  27-11-2017 11:58
  Seemingly trivial incidents can knock sides off course in the Ashes and, with Australia capitalising on Jonny Bairstow’s antics, England will need to be carefulCameron Bancroft, his anonymity beyond Perth and Bristol now entirely blown, delivered a scorching straight drive and the Test match was won by Australia with chilling certainty after 70 minutes of play. Unbeaten on 82 on his debut he had batted most impressively alongside David Warner to ensure Australia’s emphatic 10-wicket
  
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• Ashes first Test talking points: Australia’s big guns take control by stealth | Rob Smyth

  27-11-2017 10:41
  Steve Smith and David Warner outsmarted England’s attack in the first Test, the tourists will need clear heads and is Alastair Cook merely out of form?Stuart Broad said before the series that England would play on the egos of the Australia batsmen by denying boundaries. But the egos never landed in Brisbane. The exaggerated patience of Steve Smith, in the first innings, and David Warner, against the second new ball, symbolised an Australia performance that had an unexpected brain:brawn rat
  
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• Sideways look of Adelaide presents hope to England despite Gabba beating | Vic Marks

  27-11-2017 09:30
  The movement of the pink ball under lights means the second Test venue is the tourists’ best chance of taking 20 Australian wicketsNow an optimistic outlook is required. The good news is that there is a precedent for England being overcome in the first Test in Brisbane and yet returning home with the Ashes (though, if pressed, one has to acknowledge that this happened on the 1954-55 tour when Frank Tyson was reckoned to be really quite scary by the Australians).
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• Ashes: Australia seal victory over England in first Test – video report

  27-11-2017 09:30
  Australia secured victory in the first Ashes Test, beating England by 10 wickets, on Monday. David Warner and Cameron Bancroft scored the 56 runs required to seal the win before lunch at the Gabba. The two sides meet next in a day-night Test in Adelaide which begins on Saturday England suffer crushing 10-wicket defeat by Australia in first Ashes TestContinue reading...
  
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• Ashes: Jonny Bairstow and Cameron Bancroft describe the 'headbutt' in their own words

  27-11-2017 08:35 via bbc.co.uk
  England's Jonny Bairstow and Australia's Cameron Bancroft explain what happened between the pair during a night out in Perth in October.
  
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• Ashes: Trevor Bayliss to read England the riot act after Jonny Bairstow headbutt incident

  27-11-2017 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  TREVOR BAYLISS will read the riot act to his players after Jonny Bairstow’s ‘head-butting’ incident with Cameron Bancroft but looks likely to stop short of slapping a booze ban on his squad.
  
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• Bancroft laughs off pre-Ashes Perth bar incident with Bairstow – video

  27-11-2017 08:07
  Australian Test opener Cameron Bancroft makes light of an incident involving England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow in a Perth bar before the start of the Ashes series. 'I was expecting a handshake ... it wasn’t the greeting of choice I was expecting,' Bancroft says Continue reading...
  
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• Pint-sized Ashes: Best moments from day five as Australia seal win against England

  27-11-2017 07:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Australia complete a comfortable 10-wicket victory over England in the first Ashes Test on the fifth morning in Brisbane, while TMS's Geoffrey Boycott has an unfortunate mishap.
  
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• Jonny Bairstow's alleged head-butt 'a bit weird', says Cameron Bancroft

  27-11-2017 06:04
  Bairstow says bar meeting with Australian ‘blown out of proportion’
  England will not discipline wicketkeeper over alleged incident in Perth
  Jonny Bairstow’s actions have been described as “weird” by Australia opener Cameron Bancroft but the England wicketkeeper was exonerated of any malice following the clash of heads between the two players in a bar four weeks ago that dominated the final day of Australia’s crushing 10-wicket victory in the first Test.Bairsto
  
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• England suffer crushing 10-wicket defeat to Australia in first Ashes Test

  27-11-2017 03:24
  • England 302 & 195; Australia 328 & 173-0; Australia win by 10 wickets
  • David Warner and Cameron Bancroft share 173-run stand for first wicketOn a disappointingly sunny Monday morning for England supporters Australia completed the job without any alarms. Their victory was emphatic in the end: a 10- wicket romp, which represented some comeback from the depths of 76 for four on the second day. The winning runs came from a scorching straight drive by Cameron Bancroft, a wonderfu
  
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• England suffer crushing 10-wicket defeat by Australia in first Ashes Test

  27-11-2017 03:24
  • England 302 & 195; Australia 328 & 173-0; Australia win by 10 wickets
  • David Warner and Cameron Bancroft share 173-run stand for first wicketOn a disappointingly sunny Monday morning for England supporters Australia completed the job without any alarms. Their victory was emphatic in the end: a 10- wicket romp, which represented some comeback from the depths of 76 for four on the second day. The winning runs came from a scorching straight drive by Cameron Bancroft, a wonderfu
  
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• Ashes 2017-18: Australia beat England by 10 wickets in first Test – as it happened

  27-11-2017 03:04
  Australia started final day needing 56 runs to winDavid Warner and Cameron Bancroft steer hosts home before lunchECB investigates alleged altercation between Bairstow and Bancroft 2.04am GMTHere’s the full report from Vic. I’ll sign off now from the Gabba, where Australia celebrate and England try to work out what to do next. They have four days to turn it around. Related: England suffer crushing 10-wicket defeat to Australia in first Ashes Test1.34am GMTOf course, stick with us on t
  
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• Australia complete 10-wicket win in first Test

  27-11-2017 02:31 via bbc.co.uk
  Australia complete a 10-wicket victory over England in the first Ashes Test on the fifth morning in Brisbane.
  
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