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• Anya Shrubsole: ‘To have a female cricketer on the Spoty shortlist is special’

  16-12-2017 20:00
  England’s World Cup final match-winner completes a remarkable year on Sunday night but says she owes everything to her team-matesIt was when switching on her phone after disembarking a flight from Australia that Anya Shrubsole found out she had made the 12-person shortlist for BBC Sports Personality of the Year.The 26-year-old was returning home after an unsuccessful attempt to regain the Women’s Ashes. Despite a valiant fightback from 4-0 and then 8-4 down to square the multiformat
  
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• Ashes: Australia take giant step towards urn as Smith and Marsh hammer England in Perth

  16-12-2017 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  ENGLAND’S hopes of retaining the Ashes were left hanging by a thread after a batting masterclass from Steve Smith and Mitch Marsh put Australia in complete control of the third Test.
  
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• The best since Bradman? How does Smith do it?

  16-12-2017 16:38 via bbc.co.uk
  With stats better than Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara and Viv Richards, BBC Sport asks if Steve Smith is the best batsman since Donald Bradman.
  
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• Ashes: Australia in control over England after Steve Smith double century – video report

  16-12-2017 15:12
  Australia captain Steve Smith scored a magnificent double century at the Waca on Saturday to put his side within sight of an Ashes series win over England. Smith finished the day 229 not out with Mitchell Marsh also unbeaten on 181 in Perth. England could only manage one wicket all day and now trail by 146 runsSteve Smith’s double ton has Australia motoring out of England’s Ashes sightContinue reading...
  
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• Mitchell Marsh makes his Ashes mark after coming through ‘bad place’ | Adam Collins

  16-12-2017 14:32
  Marsh hits Ashes 181 not out against England in Perth but says during ‘shoulder rehab I thought I wouldn’t get back’Mitchell Marsh has never hidden behind his all‑rounder status to shirk his primary responsibility. To play for Australia, he has always known, hinges on whether he can hold down the No6 spot with the bat. That means tons. But until Saturday, he had not saluted. His reflexive response to the first question flung at him when leaving the field showed how heavy
  
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• Mitchell Marsh finally makes his mark for Australia after coming through 'bad place'

  16-12-2017 14:32
  Marsh hits Ashes 181 not out against England in Perth but says during ‘shoulder rehab I thought I wouldn’t get back’Mitchell Marsh has never hidden behind his all‑rounder status to shirk his primary responsibility. To play for Australia, he has always known, hinges on whether he can hold down the No6 spot with the bat. That means tons. But until Saturday, he hadn’t saluted. His reflexive response to the first question flung at him when leaving the field showed how h
  
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• Australia’s Mitchell Marsh admits after century: ‘I was in a pretty bad place’

  16-12-2017 14:32
  Marsh hits Ashes 181 not out against England in Perth but says during ‘shoulder rehab I thought I wouldn’t get back’Mitchell Marsh has never hidden behind his all‑rounder status to shirk his primary responsibility. To play for Australia, he has always known, hinges on whether he can hold down the No6 spot with the bat. That means tons. But until Saturday, he had not saluted. His reflexive response to the first question flung at him when leaving the field showed how heavy
  
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• England’s Paul Farbrace admits Steve Smith ‘stirring’ has valid basis

  16-12-2017 14:12
  • ‘We don’t have bowlers bowling 90mph-plus,’ says assistant coach at Ashes
  • Michael Vaughan bemoans England’s lack of pace: ‘It is a disastrous day’After inflicting one of England’s most chastening days of Ashes cricket in the field and pocketing a career-best score for himself, Steve Smith made light of his opponents and their lack of potency.Speaking as he left the field on day three, with an unbeaten 230 to his name after batting through a
  
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• England assistant Paul Farbrace admits Steve Smith ‘stirring’ has valid basis

  16-12-2017 14:12
  • ‘We don’t have bowlers bowling 90mph plus,’ says assistant coach at Ashes
  • Michael Vaughan bemoans England’s lack of pace: ‘It is a disastrous day’After inflicting one of England’s most chastening days of Ashes cricket in the field and pocketing a career-best score for himself, Steve Smith made light of his opponents and their lack of potency.Speaking as he left the field on day three, with an unbeaten 230 to his name after batting through a
  
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• Pint-sized Ashes: Australia pile on the punishment on day three

  16-12-2017 13:04 via bbc.co.uk
  Australia captain Steve Smith hits a magnificent double century and Mitchell Marsh a huge hundred to demoralise England on day three of the third Ashes Test.
  
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• Pint-sized Ashes: Australia pile on the punishment

  16-12-2017 13:04 via bbc.co.uk
  Australia captain Steve Smith hits a magnificent double century and Mitchell Marsh a huge hundred to demoralise England on day three of the third Ashes Test.
  
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• England’s creeping dread materialises in day of Ashes flagellation at the Waca | Ali Martin

  16-12-2017 12:46
  Flat is the word that summed up the bowlers as Australia highlighted what is required in these parts and what Englandso badly lackLess than an hour into play on the third morning, after Steve Smith had chalked up his second century of this Ashes series, the brass section of the Barmy Army on the western hill at the Waca began playing the theme tune to the Great Escape.Though Australia were three down and still 180 runs in arrears at this stage, it was pitch-perfect in its reflection of creeping
  
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• Steve Smith’s double ton has Australia motoring out of England’s Ashes sight

  16-12-2017 11:09
  • Third Ashes Test, day three: England 403; Australia 549-4
  • Steve Smith hits his highest Test score, unbeaten on 229England have been this way before so a sense of foreboding is rife. In the 21st century a first-innings score in excess of 400 guarantees nothing and they know that better than most. A year ago on their tour of India England amassed 400 in Mumbai and 477 in Chennai. On both occasions they lost the match by an innings. The numbers are looking ominously similar at the Wac
  
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• Ashes 2017-18: Australia v England third Test, day three – as it happened

  16-12-2017 10:48
  Steve Smith’s epic 229 not out, and Mitchell Marsh’s storming unbeaten 181, gave Australia complete control of the Test on a desperate day for England 10.12am GMT Related: Steve Smith’s double ton has Australia motoring out of England’s Ashes sight9.48am GMT152nd over: Australia 549-4 (Smith 229, M Marsh 181) In the final over, Smith brings up the 300 partnership with a single off Woakes. Australian fans will talk about this day for decades. Their team made 346 for the lo
  
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• Ashes 2017-18: Australia v England third Test, day three – live!

  16-12-2017 03:05
  Live updates from the third Test in PerthEmail Adam with your thoughts, or tweet him here
  Day two report: Australia fight back after England collapseAdam Collins: England must get Smith out or lose Ashes 2.05am GMTOpening up on the email is Benedict Carter. “Here in China, the cause of cricket progresses: my Chinese students now know what the Ashes are; can place Australia and England on the map; and they know who Joe Root and Steve Smith are. I have yet to introduce WG Grace, the immortal
  
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• Ashes: Jonny Bairstow lifts lid on 'headbutt’ celebration in third Test

  16-12-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  JONNY BAIRSTOW insisted his ‘headbutt’ celebration after reaching his hundred in England’s first innings in the third Test here was intended only as “light-hearted fun”.
  
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• Ashes: Jonny Bairstow does his dad proud with maiden hundred

  16-12-2017 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  ONE reaction was deliberate the other instinctive, but there is little doubt his father David would have approved of both after Jonny Bairstow reached his first Ashes hundred.
  
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• Ashes: England’s tail worryingly exposed AGAIN as Australia cut through order

  16-12-2017 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  USMAN KHAWAJA gave some though to the question of whether he had been surprised by the speed of England’s first innings collapse before choosing to put the credit to his bowlers.
  
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