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• Somerset sign Australia batsman Renshaw to replace Bancroft

  12-04-2018 18:19 via bbc.co.uk
  Somerset sign Australia batsman Matt Renshaw as their overseas replacement player for Cameron Bancroft.
  
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• Essex’s Jamie Porter: ‘Vernon Philander is unreal ... I can be more successful’

  12-04-2018 16:53
  The effervescent Essex seamer Jamie Porter has just been named one of Wisden’s five cricketers of the year. Not that he was lacking in confidence before that...“We are only looking at one thing and that is how we win the Championship again,” says Jamie Porter, the effervescent Essex seamer whose side begin their title defence on Friday at the construction site that is Headingley. Freshly crowned one of Wisden’s five cricketers of the year, Porter is in no mood to countena
  
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• County Championship quiz: How well do you remember the 2017 season?

  12-04-2018 14:52 via bbc.co.uk
  County cricket returned for another summer on Friday, but how well do you remember the 2017 season?
  
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• India cruise past England to secure ODI series victory

  12-04-2018 14:33
  England 201-9; India 202-2, win by eight wicketsIndia wrap up the three-match series 2-1India recorded a comfortable eight-wicket victory over England at Nagpur to win the final one-day international and secure the three-match series 2-1. Heather Knight had won the toss and elected to bat, but opener Tammy Beaumont, making her 50th ODI appearance, had managed just four when she edged Jhulan Ghoswami behind. Danielle Wyatt also failed to make an impact, playing the seamer onto the stumps for only
  
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• England women in India: Hosts complete series win

  12-04-2018 14:12 via bbc.co.uk
  India complete a series win over world champions England with an eight-wicket victory in the third and final one-day international.
  
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• Wisden 2018: ECB chief calls for new £1.1bn competition to transform English cricket

  12-04-2018 12:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  ENGLISH cricket faces major challenges on “attendance, participation and relevance” according to ECB chief executive Tom Harrison.
  
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• Lancashire: County announces £2.3m operating profit for 2017 after Test and domestic success

  12-04-2018 11:48 via bbc.co.uk
  Lancashire County Cricket Club make an operating profit of £2,347,000 for 2017, an increase of 92% on the previous year.
  
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• Grand National memories, Eric Bristow and time for county cricket | Classic YouTube

  12-04-2018 11:40
  This week’s roundup also features Roma riffing on Barcelona’s pain, Hearts’ advert for a Lego bus and Jackman v Warne1) Grand National weekend makes it obligatory to begin with Red Rum. Here’s his lesser watched 1974 triumph, the second of three, when carrying top weight; he became the first horse since Reynoldstown in 1936 to win in consecutive years. In that classic vein, here’s Foinavon from 1967 and Aldaniti from 1981. And here’s AP McCoy recalling the 201
  
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• County Championship: fans of all 18 counties preview the cricket season

  12-04-2018 11:36
  How is your team shaping up? Fans give their verdicts on the season aheadI thought we’d narrowly avoid relegation before last season, so found our Championship win quite astonishing. But Simon Harmer won’t be the same unknown quantity this season and Jamie Porter will also be treated with more respect. Our middle order batting is somewhat brittle; it wasn’t regularly exposed last year due to Alastair Cook’s early-season involvement, which will be much reduced in 2018. Som
  
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• IPL 2018: Reason why Chennai Super Kings will play home games in Pune REVEALED

  12-04-2018 08:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  CHENNAI SUPER KINGS will play their remaining home IPL matches in Pune.
  
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• IPL matches moved out of Chennai following protests

  12-04-2018 06:21 via bbc.co.uk
  The move comes amid security concerns caused by ongoing protests in the southern city.
  
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