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• Billings hits rapid 56 as Chennai chase 203 to win

  10-04-2018 21:23 via bbc.co.uk
  England's Sam Billings made 56 off 23 balls as Chennai Super Kings beat Kolkata Knight Riders with a ball to spare in the Indian Premier League.
  
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• South Africa v Australia: Match referee says 'I have never seen such animosity'

  10-04-2018 15:36 via bbc.co.uk
  A match referee during the Test series between South Africa and Australia says he has "never seen such animosity between two teams".
  
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• Ex-South Africa pace bowler Morkel signs for Surrey

  10-04-2018 15:07 via bbc.co.uk
  Surrey sign former South Africa fast bowler Morne Morkel on a two-year Kolpak deal, so he will not count as an overseas player.
  
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• England’s Test failures will raise the County Championship’s profile | Rob Smyth

  10-04-2018 13:48
  There are 30 or 40 players who could make the first Test against Pakistan and the start of the County Championship on Friday is there chance to stake a claimThe weather is miserable, the football season is approaching the business end – yes, it’s time for hackneyed but well-meaning jokes about the start of the cricket season. The County Championship begins on Friday with some enticing fixtures, including Yorkshire v Essex and Lancashire v Nottinghamshire in Division One. The Spin is
  
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• County cricket talking points: six questions before the new season

  10-04-2018 13:26
  Essex are defending champions and Middlesex are aiming to return to the top flight. Will we witness an historic summer?
  By Gary Naylor for the 99.94 Cricket BlogApart from 1947’s Denis Compton inspired sun-soaked, run-soaked season, perhaps every spring has brought forth the doomsayers reading the demise of the game in the auguries. But the pigeons will still assemble on The Oval’s square (now more a landing strip, stretching from one postcode to another) and the gulls will be on the
  
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• Cheteshwar Pujara: Yorkshire stint for India batsman ahead of Test series with England

  10-04-2018 13:01 via bbc.co.uk
  India batsman Cheteshwar Pujara is back playing for Yorkshire, where he will line up alongside England captain Joe Root ahead of the summer Test series.
  
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• Car keys and black clothing banned from IPL match

  10-04-2018 12:20 via bbc.co.uk
  The long list of items banned from an anticipated match in Chennai is mocked by fans online.
  
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• Injured Australia paceman Cummins out of IPL season

  10-04-2018 05:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Fast bowler Pat Cummins is the latest Australian to pull out of the Indian Premier League season, because of a back injury.
  
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• Indigenous Australian cricketers to commemorate 1868 tour with trip to UK

  10-04-2018 05:17
  150 years since famous original 47-game tour Modern-day party includes men’s and women’s teamsD’Arcy Short and Dan Christian will commemorate 150 years since their fellow Aboriginal cricketers became the first sporting team from Australia to tour overseas.The limited-overs stars will join 11 others, plus a women’s team led by emerging Australian all-rounder Ashleigh Gardner, on a tour of the UK in June which partially mirrors the famous original tour. Related: Aboriginal
  
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