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• England U19 captain dropped over 'discipline breach'

  30-01-2018 17:18 via bbc.co.uk
  England Under-19 captain Harry Brook misses the last match of the youth World Cup after being dropped for disciplinary reasons.
  
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• Under-19 World Cup: Tom Banton's century helps England to victory over New Zealand

  30-01-2018 14:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch match highlights as a century from England's Tom Banton, helps secure a 32-run victory over New Zealand in the World Cup 7th-place play-off match in Queenstown.
  
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• Cavalier cricket: when Bagenal Harvey brought stardust to the sport | Simon Burnton

  30-01-2018 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Cricket was set on its lucrative path to the IPL by sport’s first super-agent and an all-star Sunday afternoon competition that forced the MCC into desperate actionIt was exactly 50 years ago this week that the MCC’s Advisory County Cricket Committee took a decision that they hoped might, as the Guardian’s John Arlott put it in a news story, “change the shape and mathematics of county cricket” forever. That, as it turned out, was a significant understatement.Their d
  
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• England U19s cricket captain Harry Brook dropped on disciplinary grounds

  30-01-2018 09:31 via theguardian.com
  Incident took place 24 hours before New Zealand play-offBrook missed final game of ICC Cricket World Cup campaignThe England Under-19s captain, Harry Brook, was dropped for the final game of their ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup campaign after falling foul of the team’s disciplinary rules. The incident took place 24 hours before the seventh-placed play-off with New Zealand in Queenstown, where England have played all of their matches and is understood to involve no other England players. Th
  
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• Yorkshire re-sign India batsman Pujara for 2018

  30-01-2018 08:30 via bbc.co.uk
  Yorkshire re-sign India Test batsman Cheteshwar Pujara, who helped them win the 2015 County Championship, for the 2018 season.
  
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• England coach Trevor Bayliss warns Australia best is yet to come after series finale

  30-01-2018 01:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  TREVOR BAYLISS was the one Australian left smiling at Perth’s sparkling new Optus Stadium.
  
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• Women get same billing as men at World Twenty20 in Australia

  30-01-2018 01:14 via theguardian.com
  Both tournaments to be held as stand alone events in 2020MCG final could break women’s attendance recordIn a significant coup for women’s cricket, the ICC World Twenty20, to be hosted in Australia in 2020, will see the women’s and men’s competitions receive equal billing, with both finals to be held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.In a first, both tournaments will be held as stand alone events in the same year and same host country, with the women’s competition to r
  
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• Tired Australians don’t have long to crack the one-day cricket code | Geoff Lemon

  30-01-2018 00:47 via theguardian.com
  In a role reversal, the home side looked as creaky and out of date as England had three years earlierIn 2015, it wasn’t just Australians laughing at England’s version of one-day cricket. This was a team knocked out of the World Cup quarters by Bangladesh, having stumbled to that stage with a timid and conservative gameplan 30 years out of date. It was a side that not long beforehand had Alastair Cook and Ian Bell pootling along at the top of each innings, while other sides opened up
  
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• Trevor Bayliss wants to see England reaction to one-day favourite status

  30-01-2018 00:14 via theguardian.com
  • Head coach says England are among World Cup front-runners
  • ‘If we go into all series as favourites, that will be good practice’Trevor Bayliss was measured when asked to dissect his England side’s performance after a commanding 4-1 ODI series win in Australia. The finishing touches came on Sunday with a 12-run victory in the new Perth Stadium, capping a dominant fortnight for a team on the up.Further reasons to be cheerful followed when Bayliss confirmed that Ben St
  
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