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• South Africa win four-day Test inside two days

  27-12-2017 20:55 via bbc.co.uk
  South Africa beat Zimbabwe by an innings and 120 runs in the inaugural four-day Test in Port Elizabeth.
  
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• Lifeless MCG pitch allows re-energised England to rise from the dead | Adam Collins

  27-12-2017 17:00
  The absence of Mitchell Starc and illness of Pat Cummins were mitigating factors but after a damning day for Australia at least some fingers should be pointing at 22 yards of Melbourne blandnessIf, as the Libertines sang, there is no more distressing sight than an Englishman in a baseball cap then surely there is no sadder image than an Australian seamer operating with the wicketkeeper up to the stumps on the second day of a home Test.But don’t blame Mitchell Marsh. Sure, he’s far fr
  
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• Stuart Broad bounces back but ‘won’t hold any grudges if people slag me off’

  27-12-2017 16:46
  • Holiday companion Michael Vaughan one of critics after Ashes series was lost
  • Four wickets for England bowler in fourth Test and ‘atmosphere good in group’Stuart Broad went from holidaying with Michael Vaughan in Western Australia two weeks ago to seeing his place in the Test side queried by the former England captain.However, after conceding his wicketless display in the Ashes-sealing defeat in Perth was not as competitive as it should have been – and offering a f
  
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• Alastair Cook has moment of catharsis on England’s best day of Ashes tour | Ali Martin

  27-12-2017 12:30
  The opener, who likes it hot and famously never sweats, silenced some swirling chatter about his future with a century at the bloomin’ boiling MCGIf you don’t like the weather in Melbourne, wait 10 minutes. Or so the saying goes. Because on the second day of the fourth Test this appeared to be bunkum, with six and a half hours of punishing 35-degree sun beating down on the cricket and turning the MCG into an oven.Only the hardiest of the 67,882 supporters who came through the turnsti
  
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• Stuart Broad backs Alastair Cook to ram home England’s advantage at MCG

  27-12-2017 10:58
  • ‘That was Cooky at his best. You know he’s not just happy with a hundred’
  • Jimmy Anderson praises Broad after England take Ashes fight to AustraliaStuart Broad hopes Alastair Cook can turn his first Ashes century in six years into a major score and help England take complete control of the fourth Test.Cook had not reached three figures against Australia since the 2010/11 tour of Australia and had failed to record a half-century in his six previous innings on this t
  
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• Broad holds no grudges after Ashes criticism

  27-12-2017 10:36 via bbc.co.uk
  Stuart Broad helped England dominate day two of the fourth Ashes Test - then said he bore no grudges after being criticised.
  
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• Pint-sized Ashes: Alastair Cook shines as England dominate day two

  27-12-2017 10:33 via bbc.co.uk
  Alastair Cook hits an unbeaten century as England close on 192-2 on the second day of the fourth Test, 135 runs behind Australia.
  
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• Cook hits century as England dominate Australia

  27-12-2017 08:58 via bbc.co.uk
  Alastair Cook hits an unbeaten century as England close on 192-2 on the second day of the fourth Test, 135 runs behind Australia.
  
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• Alastair Cook ends Ashes century drought after England skittle Australia

  27-12-2017 08:43
  • Australia 327; England 192-2
  • Broad, Anderson and Root also fire on England’s best day of series so farThis was how it was supposed to be from the start with the senior citizens showing the way. Sadly it took until the second day of the Melbourne Test for all of them to function simultaneously. Still here was confirmation that the likes of Stuart Broad, Jimmy Anderson and Alastair Cook are not suddenly as useless as their many and various critics had decided. Especially Cook,
  
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• Ashes 2017-18: Australia v England fourth Test, day two - as it happened

  27-12-2017 08:05
  Alastair Cook made a lovely unbeaten hundred at the MCG, with Stuart Broad also returning to form on a brilliant day for England 7.11am GMTThe final word comes from my OBO colleague Tim de Lisle:“Stranded in Dubai without a telly, but the OBO is a treat. Cook cruising to a hundred, Smith dropping a catch, Aussies reduced to bowling dry, Withington, Copestake and Naylor writing dry. Good point from Gary about the up-country games, but he is neglecting one thing: you can only have old-school
  
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• A day at the Ashes: soft eyes fall into a collective cricket coma | Brigid Delaney's diary

  27-12-2017 06:01
  You’ve got to pace yourself at the Boxing Day Test, especially when a lot of the action is at the barIt’s Boxing Day, and my Uber driver picks me up and tries to guess my destination: the sales or the cricket.In Melbourne, there’s only two places to be. Related: David Warner ticks personal box with Boxing Day century against England | Adam Collins I experience cricket as a sort of frequency – something that’s been around me since birth, hanging in the summertime air
  
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• Day-night Ashes Test in 2019 is unlikely, says ECB chief executive

  27-12-2017 04:15 via bbc.co.uk
  It is unlikely there will be a day-night Test match during the 2019 Ashes series, according to ECB chief executive Tom Harrison.
  
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• Ashes 2017-18: Australia v England fourth Test, day two – live!

  27-12-2017 00:35
  Latest updates from day two of the fourth Test at the MCG
  The Spin’s best Test cricket XI of 2017
  Email Adam or tweet: @collinsadam11.35pm GMT90th over: Australia 245-3 (Smith 65, Marsh 32). Bit of a shout for leg before second ball of the day, Broad coming around the wicket angling into Marsh. Denied by Umpire Ravi and no real consideration of a review. The left-hander then takes a single around the corner next ball to start his day. Smith is able to leave two of the three balls sent down
  
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