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• Eoin Morgan ruled out of West Indies T20 fundraiser after breaking finger

  29-05-2018 19:24 via theguardian.com
  • England limited-overs captain injured fielding for Middlesex
  • ICC to introduce tough new guidelines on player behaviourEoin Morgan has withdrawn from the World XI’s T20 match against West Indies at Lord’s on Thursday because of a fractured ring finger on his right hand.Morgan sustained the injury while fielding on Sunday at backward point for Middlesex against Somerset. He expects to be fit in time for England’s first one-day international against Australia on 13 J
  
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• A stitch in time would save the Sport section | Letters

  29-05-2018 19:22 via theguardian.com
  Ken Livingstone | Keeping Guardian pages together | Young cricketers | Spot fixing | Thanking bus driversDuring the last two years of lies and smears it’s been encouraging that the Guardian always accurately reported on what I had said. It came as a shock therefore to read Gaby Hinsliff’s column (23 May) claiming that I said Hitler was a Zionist. Fortunately this was overshadowed by Sky News reporter Jon Craig’s claim that I had a pet newt called Adolf. Did Gaby just not b
  
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• Eoin Morgan out of World XI v West Indies with broken finger

  29-05-2018 17:37 via bbc.co.uk
  England one-day and Twenty20 captain Eoin Morgan withdraws from the ICC World XI squad with a fractured finger.
  
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• One-Day Cup: Surrey v Sussex abandoned without a ball being bowled

  29-05-2018 16:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Surrey and Sussex's One-Day Cup match at the Oval is abandoned without a ball being bowled because of persistent rain.
  
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• False allegations can match real corruption in damaging cricket | Andy Bull

  29-05-2018 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Loose claims in an al-Jazeera documentary have bundled three separate claims of malpractice into one, with some of the information coming from a self-proclaimed crookThe story goes that when the Australian Cricket Board knocked back Kerry Packer in 1976, Packer told them: “there’s a little bit of the whore in all of us, gentlemen, so name your price”. That line came to mind early on in al-Jazeera’s new documentary, Cricket’s Match-Fixers, when its undercover journal
  
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• Cricket is natural choice to be a world leader on climate change | The Spin

  29-05-2018 13:55 via theguardian.com
  The sport has an bond with the land that few other field sports do and Thursday’s game at Lord’s can put the environment centre stageSign up for The Spin or re-subscribe hereIn September 2017 Roosevelt Skerrit, the prime minister of Dominica, stood up in front of the UN general assembly. “Eden is broken,” he said.Skerrit had travelled to New York from his devastated island nation, battered to bare-root nakedness by Hurricane Maria, which spat out homes and lives, leaving
  
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• County cricket talking points: Royal London Cup throws up a few surprises

  29-05-2018 12:39 via theguardian.com
  Worcestershire and Derbyshire are leading the north group, with Hampshire making the early running down southBy Gary Naylor for the 99.94 Cricket BlogThe Royal London Cup north group table is beginning to take on a shape and it’s something of a surprising one. Worcestershire lead it with three wins from four matches, the latest over Lancashire. In a match reduced to 48 overs per side, one could argue that the visitors were winning it for all but the last three balls (I understand that one
  
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• County cricket talking points: One-Day Cup throws up a few surprises

  29-05-2018 12:39 via theguardian.com
  Worcestershire and Derbyshire are leading the north group, with Hampshire making the early running down southBy Gary Naylor for the 99.94 Cricket BlogThe Royal London Cup north group table is beginning to take on a shape and it’s something of a surprising one. Worcestershire lead it with three wins from four matches, the latest over Lancashire. In a match reduced to 48 overs per side, one could argue that the visitors were winning it for all but the last three balls (I understand that one
  
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• Banned batsmen Warner & Bancroft to play in Darwin tournament

  29-05-2018 09:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Banned Australia batsmen David Warner and Cameron Bancroft are set to play in a limited-overs tournament in Darwin during July.
  
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• Why is England's batting so bad and what can they do about it?

  29-05-2018 07:43 via bbc.co.uk
  Simon Hughes, the Analyst, asks why England's batting is so bad and whether they can fix it in time for the second Test against Pakistan.
  
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• England's batting: Why is it so bad and what can they do about it?

  29-05-2018 07:43 via bbc.co.uk
  Simon Hughes, the Analyst, asks why England's batting is so bad and whether they can fix it in time for the second Test against Pakistan.
  
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• David Warner and Cameron Bancroft to play in NT competition

  29-05-2018 03:03 via theguardian.com
  Batsmen to feature in Darwin tournament during JulyBans cover international, state and BBL cricketBanned cricketers David Warner and Cameron Bancroft have signed up for the Northern Territory’s Strike League. Warner will play two one-day games in the tournament, which features both 50-over and Twenty20 fixtures, while Bancroft will be available for the entire event that runs in Darwin throughout July. Related: Fixing allegations are 'unsubstantiated', says Australia captain Tim PaineContin
  
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• David Warner and Cameron Bancroft to cover own costs in NT competition

  29-05-2018 03:03 via theguardian.com
  Batsmen to feature in Darwin tournament during JulyBans cover international, state and BBL cricketBanned cricketers David Warner and Cameron Bancroft will cover their own costs while playing in the NT’s Strike League, a limited-overs competition that will double as a stint of community service.
  Warner, who lost millions in contracts and endorsements following the ball-tampering scandal, will dip into his pockets to play one-day games on 21 and 22. Bancroft, who would currently be playing c
  
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