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• Ashes: Dawid Malan says England team spirit is good despite series defeat

  21-12-2017 19:20 via bbc.co.uk
  Dawid Malan says the atmosphere in the England dressing room is "probably the best I've ever played in", despite their Ashes defeat.
  
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• Middlesex role models helped Dawid Malan become Ashes shining light

  21-12-2017 19:00
  • England’s leading run-scorer did his homework with Rogers and Voges
  • Middle-order batsman urges tourists to be more aggressive with AustraliaDawid Malan is very familiar with a couple of handy role models for his Test career. At Middlesex he has played with Chris Rogers and Adam Voges, two late developers who flourished for Australia long after their 30th birthdays.Wisely, Malan consulted them before this series, especially about the peculiarities of playing in Perth, where Ro
  
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• The big sports quiz of the year 2017

  21-12-2017 13:40
  Real Madrid won five trophies, Anthony Joshua became a world champion and Conor McGregor became a boxer. Were you paying attention to the little details?Which of these footballers retired with fewer than 100 international caps?Andrea PirloDirk KuytFrancesco TottiFrank LampardPhilipp Lahm Xabi Alonso Where did Usain Bolt finish in the final race of his career?FirstSecondThirdHe didn’t finishWho is this?Rafa NadalAndy Murray Nick KyrgiosStan WawrinkaWho was the winner when two double Olympic
  
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• Why does county cricket always get the blame for England’s failings? | Andy Bull

  21-12-2017 13:10
  The ECB is an easy target but skewing the domestic game to produce more spinners and favour limited-overs cricket looks to have backfiredA stock of explanations and excuses is a valuable bit of any cricketer’s kit and should be kept ready, stashed by bat, box, and pads. “The sun was in my eyes. I couldn’t pick it up in this light. My foot slipped. Somebody was moving behind the sightscreen.”England, who, after all, have had no shortage of practice at this, have used some
  
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• Melbourne terror: England release Ashes statement after Flinders Street incident

  21-12-2017 10:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  AN England team spokesman confirmed no one in the Ashes touring party was caught up in the incident on Flinders Street which saw 14 people injured, several critically, and two men arrested.
  
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• The Final Word: Vic Marks and how Australia won the Ashes – podcast

  21-12-2017 05:05
  In the latest podcast, Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins chat to Vic Marks, the former England player and now Guardian and Observer cricket writer and broadcast journalist, in the aftermath of Australia’s Ashes victory in Perth.The ever-engaging Marks talks about his association with the Waca, and also of ‘hitting the digital hotspot’, an understandable fear of facing some West Indian fast bowlers, the strange end to his Test career and what happened for him next in the world of jou
  
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