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• Shane Watson back to his best in Sydney Thunder Big Bash win

  19-12-2017 23:54
  Watson hits 74 off 46 to steer Thunder past Sixers in season openerFormer Test player says win bodes well for rest of campaignShane Watson has proved he is back to his devastating best and he says the Sydney Thunder have rediscovered that winning feeling. After piloting the Thunder to a thrilling season-opening last-ball win over crosstown rivals the Sydney Sixers, Watson proclaimed his side is ready for a bumper Big Bash League season. Related: England’s Craig Overton desperate to be fit
  
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• Ben Duckett omitted from England Lions squad to tour West Indies

  19-12-2017 23:00
  • Northamptonshire opener will not go on Caribbean trip next February
  • ECB confirms omission is further punishment for Perth drinking incident
  Ben Duckett has paid a heavy price for his off-field indiscretions in Australia by being left out of the England Lions squad that will tour the West Indies next year.The Northamptonshire opener was a notable absentee from the squads announced by the England and Wales Cricket Board on Tuesday after he was suspended, fined and given a final writt
  
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• Batsman Duckett to miss Lions tour after Anderson drink incident

  19-12-2017 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Ben Duckett will miss the 2018 England Lions tour to West Indies after pouring a drink over James Anderson.
  
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• With Geoffrey Boycott at the crease we are winners | Letters

  19-12-2017 19:23
  Cricket commentator Boycott has an extraordinary ability to connect with listeners, writes Professor Hugh Chignell
  As we view the wreckage of the Ashes series (No escaping the awful truth, Sport, 19 December), can I return to your critique of Geoffrey Boycott? Matthew Engel dismisses him as an irrelevance and claims “I think we’ve all heard enough” (9 December).This indicates a profound misunderstanding of radio and how its audience listens. Boycott was a fine batsman, no doubt
  
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• England’s Craig Overton desperate to be fit for fourth Test against Australia

  19-12-2017 19:00
  • Cracked rib has made new boy a doubt for Boxing Day start
  • ‘We’ll wait and see. I hope three or four days will help’Craig Overton is, by his own admission, a work in progress. But amid the wreckage of England’s Ashes loss he has stood out as a player with the temperament for Test cricket and one of courage, too, risking a possible punctured lung when playing on in Perth with a cracked rib.A worst case scenario, perhaps, but one that was put to the 23-year-old
  
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• Eoin Morgan: England limited-overs captain among quartet to extend Middlesex deals

  19-12-2017 17:45 via bbc.co.uk
  England limited-overs captain Eoin Morgan is one of four players to sign a contract extension with Middlesex.
  
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• The day I dismissed Inzamam-ul-Haq in front of 15,000 Pakistani cricket fans

  19-12-2017 13:45
  Winning in Pakistan is never easy, especially if you’re a bunch of bumbling British amateurs playing against a team of past – and current – internationals By Alex Massie for The Nightwatchman, of the Guardian Sport NetworkThere is no way of writing this without seeming unduly boastful but, look, let me tell you about the day I dismissed Inzamam-ul-Haq. In front of 15,000 spectators. In Waziristan. During a game broadcast live on Pakistani national television. For reasons we wil
  
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• Overton injury concern for Boxing Day Test

  19-12-2017 13:00 via bbc.co.uk
  England bowler Craig Overton admits he is a doubt for the Boxing Day Ashes Test in Melbourne because of a rib injury.
  
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• England facing Ashes whitewash because leading players let them down | Andy Bull

  19-12-2017 12:36
  While Dawid Malan, Craig Overton and James Vince have pleasantly surprised, senior players are the ones who have underperformed in AustraliaThe Ashes are gone: to begin with. Switch off the TV, dial down the radio, and flick over the back pages. Fans back home can console themselves by forgetting all about it and staying in bed late. But for England, adrift in Australia, there’s a hard rearguard ahead, as they try to escape from the final two Tests with the team intact. Some will be playin
  
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• Piers Morgan taunted in THIS private message from David Warner after Aussies win Ashes

  19-12-2017 12:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  DAVID WARNER taunted Piers Morgan with a private Twitter message hours after Australia won the Ashes.
  
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• Steve Smith goes to 'another level' as Australia mould into cohesive unit | Geoff Lemon

  19-12-2017 07:29
  The captain, backed up by a fearsome strike trio and a stifling spin bowler, raised the bar in leading his team to Ashes victoryAs the Ashes of four years ago rolled on, there was talk about whether it might feature the worst Australian side to dish out a five-Test whitewash. Four years later, the same question has arisen about the current team. It’s understandable how an England supporter could look at the patchy careers of the Marsh brothers, the Hail Mary pick of Tim Paine, the untested
  
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• 'Pathetic Poms': Australia's media delivers its verdict on Ashes series

  19-12-2017 02:37
  Local press relatively restrained in coverage of Australia’s series winOverall sentiment that hosts deserve to have wrapped up victoryAustralia’s press took to England with subdued vigour in the wake of a comprehensive Ashes victory, secured on the final day of play in the third Test at the Waca.Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, no stranger to hyperbole, was the most enthusiastic, declaring: “Rivalry dead: Brilliant Aussies humiliate pathetic Poms”. Other major news outlets
  
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• Ashes: Where it all went wrong for England

  19-12-2017 01:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  THERE is a temptation to suggest that this Ashes campaign went wrong the night Ben Stokes was arrested on a Bristol street way back in the early hours of the 25th of September.
  
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• Ricky Ponting says Alastair Cook has ‘mental issue’ as pundits argue after Ashes disaster

  19-12-2017 01:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  RICKY PONTING says Alastair Cook has a “mental issue” in his game after England’s Ashes drubbing.
  
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• Nick Compton's Ashes verdict: The three things England should have done against Australia

  19-12-2017 01:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  ENGLAND have lost the Ashes in crushing fashion, beaten by Australia by an innings at Perth. But former Three Lions opener Nick Compton reckon he knows where they went wrong.
  
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