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• England suspected ball tampering by Australia at Perth, says Alastair Cook

  24-04-2018 21:22
  • ‘The outfield was wet and they managed to get ball reversing’
  • Former captain poised to matchBorder’s 153 consecutive TestsAlastair Cook has admitted to suspicions among the England team of ball-tampering by Australia during the Ashes series.Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft are all serving lengthy bans after the latter was caught using sandpaper on the ball during the Cape Town Test against South Africa in a premeditated plan to obtain reverse swing.
  
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• Lord’s and ladies join forces at last to forge new first for women’s cricket

  24-04-2018 20:47
  Former England captain Charlotte Edwards led MCC against Middlesex on ‘special day’ for a burgeoning sport“What are culottes?” It was a question Middlesex’s Australian import Hayleigh Brennan put to her new team-mates as they looked out over Lord’s, where they would later step out for their county’s first match at the ground. Shoulders were shrugged until one cautiously replied: “A skirt with shorts?” She was right. Until two decades ago, it
  
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• IPL 2018 Mumbai Indians vs Sunrisers Hyderabad LIVE stream: How to watch online

  24-04-2018 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE Mumbai Indians take on Sunrisers Hyderabad in today’s IPL clash - but how can you keep up to date with it?
  
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• Alastair Cook: England entitled to drop me if I don't score runs

  24-04-2018 17:09 via bbc.co.uk
  England's leading Test runscorer Alastair Cook wants to carry on playing for his country, but admits the selectors are "entitled" to drop him if he does not continue to score runs.
  
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• Glamorgan Cricket: Hogan wants to prevent nerves at Lord's setting

  24-04-2018 15:53 via bbc.co.uk
  Glamorgan captain Michael Hogan wants his team to focus on beating Middlesex rather than the Lord's setting.
  
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• There has to be a place for Test cricket - Cook

  24-04-2018 15:24 via bbc.co.uk
  England batsman Alastair Cook says he understands the proposed 100-ball competition but that Test and first-class cricket should be "protected".
  
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• Cricket for idiots: there are 100 reasons not to like the ECB’s big idea | Andy Bull

  24-04-2018 13:31
  The Hundred is a baffling move from the ECB: an idea no one in cricket likes, and no one outside cricket knows they wantEach county ground has its own soundtrack, subtly distinct from every other. So at the Oval, there are the schoolchildren playing over the Harleyford Road, the high jet planes on the approach to Heathrow, and the gravelly shouts of “C’mon the ‘rey” from the gruff fan who sits at the back of the Peter May stand. These last few days, while Surrey have been
  
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• Amar Virdi: Surrey youngsters have head start because of club role models

  24-04-2018 12:44 via bbc.co.uk
  Surrey's youngsters have a head start in first-team cricket because of the club's role models, says spinner Amar Virdi.
  
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• County cricket talking points: Essex back to winning ways in title defence

  24-04-2018 12:41
  Jamie Porter was the main man for Essex against Lancashire and he could do a job for EnglandBy Gary Naylor for the 99.94 Cricket Blog
  Essex won 10 of their 14 Division One matches last year and six of 16 in their promotion season (2016), so it shouldn’t be a surprise to see them win again after the last week’s Headingley bogout. But, at 94-7 just after lunch against fancied Lancashire, the Chelmsford faithful must have been wondering. A winning mentality can be as infectious as a los
  
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• IPL 2018 table LIVE: Latest points as Kings XI Punjab go top

  24-04-2018 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE IPL is the most lucrative cricket tournament in the world and will see the eight franchises play each other twice to determine who will finish top of the table in its preliminary stages.
  
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