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• England’s Eoin Morgan says ‘rigid’ cricket must accept change or die

  27-04-2018 19:00
  • Morgan: ‘We need to do something different’
  • England one-day captain backs ECB’s new 100-ball tournamentEoin Morgan has warned that unless English cricket is prepared to accept change – primarily the introduction of the controversial 100-ball tournament from 2020 onwards – the sport may die out.Speaking about The Hundred, in which an eight-team tournament will be played using a shorter version of the sport, Morgan insisted its simplified scoring system
  
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• County cricket – Sussex and Middlesex in action on rain-hit day – as it happened

  27-04-2018 18:39
  Sussex reached 86-0 at Hove and Middlesex 64-3 at Lord’s as rain prevented any play at a number of grounds, including Old Trafford and Taunton 5.39pm BST Round-up day 1 4.55pm BST And that’s it folks - play called off for the day at Lord’s too, with Middlesex 64 for 3. 4.27pm BST At Lord’s the umpires will inspect at 4.40. 4.21pm BST Just been handed a delicious flapjack from the Lancashire kitchen. Cuboid, crunchy round the edges, well raisin-ed, moist with just enough c
  
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• Wembley stadium and lessons from cricket for the FA | Letters

  27-04-2018 17:43
  Readers including former FA chief executive Graham Kelly respond to news that the FA is considering selling Wembley to Fulham owner Shahid Khan in a £900m dealDavid Conn’s report on the Football Association’s proposal to sell Wembley (Sport, 27 April) is as informative as ever. But in saying the FA will revert to its former position of paying rent to stage matches, he omits to record that the former situation entailed paying rent of between 25% and 32% of the take from finals a
  
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• ECB should not tap its feet for four years before embracing Jofra Archer | Barney Ronay

  27-04-2018 16:57
  England are missing a trick by waiting until the gifted Sussex all-rounder is 27 and need to put a yorker through the rule bookEven with a week to sit on it there is no obvious easing of the dunder-headed inanity that surrounds the England and Wales Cricket Board’s proposed 100-ball competition. On wider reflection this isn’t just a bad idea. It’s more out-there than that, the kind of idea you might expect a precocious toddler to come up with, or some other species altogether:
  
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• County cricket live – Lancashire v Surrey, Somerset v Yorkshire and more!

  27-04-2018 12:29
  Live updates from around the groundsYou can email Tanya here or Tweet her hereMorgan circumspect about World Cup prospectsCounty talking points: Essex back to winning ways 11.29am BST Sussex are 15-0 after 6, but more intriguingly I read in the Cricketer that the catering had gone vegan when Jason Gillespie joined as coach. Is anyone at Hove sunning themselves in the bonny weather of the south able to confirm this? And is it any good? And if so is it the first cricket vegan cricket ground in Eng
  
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• IPL 2018 table LIVE: Latest points as the Chennai Super Kings go top

  27-04-2018 08:30 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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• County Championship fixtures: Essex and Yorkshire both away this weekend

  27-04-2018 07:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  ESSEX and Yorkshire both face away matches in this weekend’s County Championship fixtures.
  
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• Eoin Morgan hints England players will be pulled out of IPL before World Cup

  27-04-2018 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  ENGLAND’S players will be pulled out of next year’s Indian Premier League early to prepare for the World Cup on home soil.
  
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