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• Bairstow receives pair of father's gloves held by fan for 39 years

  05-12-2017 19:15 via bbc.co.uk
  England's Jonny Bairstow is presented with a pair of his wicketkeeper father's gloves held by a fan for more than 39 years.
  
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• Afghanistan hammer Ireland in ODI opener

  05-12-2017 18:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Ireland are skittled out for 100 as they go down to a 138-run defeat against Afghanistan in the first of three ODIs in Sharjah.
  
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• Players vomit on the field in smog-hit Test in Delhi

  05-12-2017 17:03 via bbc.co.uk
  India's Mohammad Shami and Sri Lanka's Suranga Lakmal vomit on the field in Delhi during a third Test that is being plagued by smog pollution.
  
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• Jimmy Anderson confounds Australian sceptics and torments Peter Handscomb | Adam Collins

  05-12-2017 16:35
  Anderson made a mockery of the notion that he poses a threat only on English green-tops on a day that left Australia with decisions to ponder before PerthJimmy Anderson does his best work after midnight. Australian time. For cricket fans in this country, the presence of the world’s most productive seam bowler of this decade is more theoretical than palpable. He lives on cable TV in the middle of football season.But his record in Australia? That is a story we’re familiar with. Sure he
  
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• Pint-sized Ashes: Best TMS moments as Root gives England hope

  05-12-2017 15:50 via bbc.co.uk
  England bowl Australia out for 138 and captain Joe Root made an unbeaten 67 to keep England in with a slim chance of a remarkable win in the second Ashes Test against Australia.
  
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• Ashes: This is why nothing got done this morning in England

  05-12-2017 15:36 via bbc.co.uk
  "This is every ball, every run, every breath" - Why absolutely nothing got done in England this morning, apart from the Ashes
  
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• England’s Jimmy Anderson: ‘I feel like I’m bowling as well as I ever have’

  05-12-2017 14:24
  • Lancashire seamer took first five-wicket haul on Australian soil
  • Anderson says England must capitalise after battling back in second TestJimmy Anderson, after claiming his maiden five-wicket haul in Australia, revealed the desire to keep proving age is merely a number remains one of the major driving forces behind these golden late years of his record-breaking career.Though the leading wicket-taker on either side during the victorious 2010-11 Ashes tour, Anderson had never raised t
  
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• Steve Smith’s turn to feel Ashes heat after questionable calls

  05-12-2017 14:04
  Australia’s captain taunted by England’s Barmy Army for his hasty reviews during day four’s fine advert for pink-ball Test cricketThe twilight zone. Though 24 hours later than many expected, England got their moment under lights on the fourth evening in Adelaide and through Joe Root, Dawid Malan and some pyromaniacal reviews by Steve Smith, somehow the tourists remained in the hunt.Whatever the result on the final day, this was the kind of session for which day-night Test crick
  
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• Steve Smith feels Ashes pressure again after Joe Root shines under the lights

  05-12-2017 14:04
  Hasty reviews and stoic England batting in a thrilling final session under Adelaide lights has cast further doubt on the Australia captain’s follow-on decisionThe twilight zone. Though 24 hours later than many expected, England got their moment under lights on the fourth evening in Adelaide and through Joe Root, Dawid Malan and some pyromaniacal reviews by Steve Smith, somehow the tourists remained in the hunt.Whatever the result on the final day, this was the kind of session for which day
  
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• Joe Root digs in to give England glimmer of hope in second Ashes Test

  05-12-2017 12:25
  • Australia 442-8dec and 138 all out; England 227 all out and 176-4
  • Root hits 67* but Dawid Malan falls before end of play after watchful inningsAfter England’s traumas of the first two and half days it was remarkable that as the players left the field on the fourth night the outcome of the match had yet to be decided. Indeed it was not even certain which side was going to win. At the close England were 176-4. So they needed 178 more runs for victory, Australia need six wickets
  
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• Ashes 2017-18: Australia v England second Test, day four – as it happened!

  05-12-2017 12:06
  Joe Root’s 67 not out and James Anderson’s five-for gave England a chance of a famous victory after a stunning day’s cricket in Adelaide 11.05am GMTI don’t know what else to say. I’ve got a big dumb grin on face, the kind only Ashes cricket can elicit. Vic Marks’ report will magically appear here in a short while, and the OBO will be back for day five. Thanks for your company and emails. Goodnight! 11.03am GMTCrikey. That was magnificent Test cricket. Australi
  
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• Listen: Anderson claims first five-wicket haul in Australia

  05-12-2017 11:53 via bbc.co.uk
  England's James Anderson takes the wicket of Mitchell Starc as the fast bowler picks up his first ever five-wicket haul in Australia on day four of the second Ashes Test.
  
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• Sri Lankan bowler vomits in Delhi cricket match due to polluted air

  05-12-2017 11:32
  Bowlers Suranga Lakmal and Lahiru Gamage are forced to take a break as harmful pollutants reach 12 times WHO safe limit A Sri Lankan player vomited on the field and was escorted off the ground as heavily polluted air continued to plague an international cricket test match in Delhi.Fast bowler Suranga Lakmal was seen doubled over and retching on Tuesday afternoon as levels of the most harmful pollutants hovered at about 300 in parts of the Indian capital – 12 times the World Health Organisa
  
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• Three international cricket captains report attempted fixing approaches

  05-12-2017 10:59
  • ICC investigating after cases were flagged up in past two months• Up to seven live investigations into current match-fixing attemptsThe International Cricket Council’s anti-corruption unit is understood to be conducting up to seven live investigations into fixing, with three international captains having reported illicit approaches in the past two months.Of the captains, two names have already leaked. Pakistan’s Sarfraz Ahmed and Graeme Cremer of Zimbabwe have already bee
  
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• Ashes 2017-18: Australia v England second Test, day four – live!

  05-12-2017 06:24
  Over-by-over updates from the day-night Test in AdelaideSmith misses chance to land knockout blow with England staggeringSend your emails to Adam, or tweet him @collinsadam 5.24am GMT56th over: Australia 132-9 (Cummins 7, Hazlewood 1) Can Woakes get five a well? Would be a worthy outcome for him to split the ten with Anderson. Hazlewood off the mark first ball past point. Good outcome for Australia, Cummins by far the better of the two in this final stand. Barmy Army are up and about! First time
  
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