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• James Vince back to frustrating best as rain hits County Championship return

  13-04-2018 19:52
  • Hampshire batsman hits rapid 75 before missing straight ball
  • Four games are washed out without a ball being bowledThe County Championship is not supposed to start with a whimper. Six games played, four called off without a ball bowled, at Headingley, Old Trafford, Edgbaston and Canterbury, and Middlesex against Northants curtailed by bad light.The one game to last the day was at Southampton, where Hampshire met Worcestershire, and James Vince did what James Vince does best. Related
  
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• Essex and Yorkshire left frustrated as wet weather stalls start of county season - as it happened

  13-04-2018 18:24
  Yorkshire v Essex was one of four games abandoned without play due to rain as the 2018 county season got off to a miserable start 6.42pm BST Anthony McGrath knows all about miserable starts to a county season in Leeds having spent his entire playing career here, but Essex’s new head coach was unable to recall anything quite like the past few weeks. The opening day of the Championship game between Yorkshire and the defending champions was abandoned shortly after lunch with an on-time start
  
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• Essex and Yorkshire left frustrated as wet weather stalls start of county season

  13-04-2018 18:24
  Yorkshire v Essex was one of four games abandoned without play due to rain as the 2018 county season got off to a miserable start 6.42pm BST Anthony McGrath knows all about miserable starts to a county season in Leeds having spent his entire playing career here, but Essex’s new head coach was unable to recall anything quite like the past few weeks. The opening day of the Championship game between Yorkshire and the defending champions was abandoned shortly after lunch with an on-time start
  
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• County cricket opening day: bad weather stifles play – as it happened

  13-04-2018 18:24
  There were four games abandoned without play as the 2018 county season got under way 5.24pm BST I thought that maybe it was balmy at Southampton, now I know differently. Quick roundup: at 520 on the first day of the season, we have four games abandoned without play, and Middlesex v Northants looking unlikely to resume despite the floodlights at Lord’s. At Southampton, Hampshire are all out for 290, with 75 for Gareth Berg matching Vince’s 75 earlier in the day; and four wickets for J
  
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• County cricket opening day: bad weather stifles play – live!

  13-04-2018 16:46
  Defending champions at Headingley as 2018 season beginsCounty Championship: fans preview both divisions
  And email Tanya or tweet @tjaldred to get in touch 3.46pm BST In the one remaining match, Hampshire are 214 for 6; Will’s favourite Leach has 3-37. Early-season Vince still the only man all day to pass fifty. 3.18pm BST Ok, so now play has been abandoned at Edgbaston for the day too. So that’s six matches, four abandoned without a ball, one suspended for bad light, and one in bonny
  
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• Call me nostalgic, but the Grand National ain’t what it used to be | Stephen Moss

  13-04-2018 16:00
  The once-great race is now sanitised, cricket is in thrall to Twenty20 and rugby is a joke. Or am I just getting old?If I had to name three highlights from a lifetime, too much of which has been spent watching televised sport and too little reading Homer and Hesiod, they would be Gareth Edwards’ try for the Barbarians against the All Blacks in 1973 (though that final pass from Quinnell was surely forward), Geoffrey Boycott’s hundredth hundred against Australia in 1977, and Red Rum&rs
  
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• IPL 2018: Virat Kohli RCB plan could CHANGE, coach admits

  13-04-2018 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  VIRAT KOHLI will keep his place at No 3 in the Royal Challengers Bangalore line-up, but coach Daniel Vettori has admitted that could change as the IPL progresses.
  
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• Jeetan Patel: Warwickshire captain signs new contract until end of 2019 season

  13-04-2018 13:36 via bbc.co.uk
  Jeetan Patel, Oliver Hannon-Dalby, Ryan Sidebottom and Alex Thomson all sign new contracts with Warwickshire.
  
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• County cricket opening day: Yorkshire v Essex, Lancs v Notts and more – live!

  13-04-2018 11:53
  Defending champions at Headingley as 2018 season beginsJamie Porter: ‘I can be more successful than Philander’County Championship: fans preview both divisions 10.47am BST A dismal dampness round-up:Old Trafford: inspection at 12.40 10.22am BST Also, I should have said, the nice folk below the line have arranged a County Cricket Fantasy League for the season. You still have time to join: this is the link and the code is AADNYWGH 10.21am BST News from Old Trafford: no play till at leas
  
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• Channel Nine loses rights in new Australian cricket TV deal

  13-04-2018 09:34 via bbc.co.uk
  Fox Sports and the Seven Network replace the long-standing Channel Nine to show home matches in Australia.
  
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• Cricket Australia's bumper new TV rights deal and what it means for fans | David Schout

  13-04-2018 09:10
  The deal struck with Foxtel and Seven complies with anti-siphoning laws, but fans will have to pay to watch limited-overs cricket
  On reading the terms of the the new $1.18bn cricket broadcast deal, Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland spoke of its wide-ranging benefits. “We see this as an outstanding result for Australian cricket fans,” he said.Despite confirming that all Australian ODI and T20I matches will shift from free-to-air to pay TV – a service only about a third of A
  
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• Amateur cricket club stumped as young asylum seeker is banned by Home Office

  13-04-2018 08:00
  Because he played for his national team in Afghanistan it says he can’t play for usI help run an amateur cricket club which, last year, welcomed a young asylum seeker from Afghanistan. He was keen to get involved in the sport and make new friends. None of our players are paid or funded in any way. He has a Home Office registration card and has not left the UK since his arrival in January 2017. He previously played cricket in Afghanistan for the national team at junior levels and attended t
  
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• Nine loses Australian cricket rights as Foxtel and Seven land $1.182bn deal

  13-04-2018 07:19
  Limited-overs international cricket goes behind paywallNine Network loses cricket rights for first time in four decadesAustralia’s home limited-overs cricket internationals will go behind a paywall for the first time under a landmark $1.182bn, six-year broadcast rights deal. Cricket Australia confirmed the deal struck with the Seven Network and Fox Sports on Friday, which means the end of four decades of the Australian summer of cricket on the Nine Network. Related: Cricket Australia's TV
  
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• County Championship 2018: Who do Yorkshire, Lancashire and Essex face in opening fixtures?

  13-04-2018 06:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE new County Championship season begins today after a long winter for English cricket.
  
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• Nine loses Australian cricket rights as Foxtel and Seven set to land $1bn deal

  13-04-2018 01:27
  Nine Network to lose cricket rights for first time in four decadesDeal includes internationals and Big Bash League gamesAustralian cricket is set for its biggest media shake-up in 40 years, with Foxtel expected to join with the Seven Network to broadcast the home summer of the sport. Cricket Australia will likely announce a six-year deal in Sydney on Friday afternoon, after Nine and the Ten Networks confirmed they had lost the rights.Nine’s loss of cricket comes after it secured the rights
  
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• Foxtel and Seven set to land Australian cricket rights in $1bn deal

  13-04-2018 01:27
  Nine Network to lose cricket rights for first time in four decadesDeal includes internationals and Big Bash League gamesMedia rights for Australian cricket internationals and the Big Bash League are reportedly set to change hands in a $1bn, six-year deal with Foxtel in partnership with the Seven Network. Related: Cricket Australia's TV rights battle and why it risks being a disaster it can't affordContinue reading...
  
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• IPL 2018 live stream: How to watch Indian Premier League cricket on TV and online

  13-04-2018 01:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  IPL live stream - how to watch every cricket match on TV and online.
  
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