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• All-round displays by Shadab and Bess set tone for fruitful future | Ali Martin

  02-06-2018 22:03 via theguardian.com
  These are early days in the players’ careers but there is already evidence they possess requisite talent, technique and temperament to push for promotionsThere may be a couple of imposters in this Test series who go by the names of Shadab Khan and Dominic Bess. They have broken into their respective teams purporting to be spin bowlers but, fiendishly, they appear to have designs on being proper batsmen.It is a path well-trodden, of course, with two modern examples in Steve Smith of Austral
  
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• Pint-sized TMS: England build first-innings lead of 128 after second day

  02-06-2018 21:01 via bbc.co.uk
  England build a first-innings lead of 128 in the second Test against Pakistan, ending a rain-shortened second day on 302-7 at Headingley.
  
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• Dom Bess and Jos Buttler impress as England turn screw on Pakistan

  02-06-2018 20:41 via theguardian.com
  • Second Test, day two: Pakistan 174; England 302-7
  • Bess top-scores with 49 as hosts take complete controlEngland ended a rain-shortened day in a dominant position on 302 for seven, even if they got there by an unusual route. When the sun finally made an appearance in the last session, the home team’s lead had been extended to 128 runs with three wickets remaining. Yet not a single batsman managed to post a half-century, the highest score being Dom Bess’s 49 in his first
  
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• England to face Ireland in four-day Lord’s Test in 2019

  02-06-2018 17:35 via theguardian.com
  • Fixture slated to take to place between World Cup and Ashes
  • ECB confirms that talks are under wayEngland look set to host Ireland for a four-day Test match next summer, with the fixture slated to take to place at Lord’s in July during the short gap between the end of the home World Cup and the Ashes series that follows it.The England and Wales Cricket Board has confirmed that talks are under way for a game that, though shortened in length, would still have full Test status an
  
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• England v Pakistan: second Test, day two – live!

  02-06-2018 17:08 via theguardian.com
  Over-by-over updates from the action at HeadingleySign up for The Spin, our weekly cricket email
  Email Tim or tweet with your thoughts 4.08pm BST 55th over: England 174-3 (Bess 32, Malan 11) Sarfraz turns to Shadab Khan, so this is the first over of spin in the match. He immediately produces a beauty to beat Bess, who averages only 13 against spin, despite being a purveyor of it himself. Charlie Jeffery is joining the fray about the commentators. “I prefer the spinners to the bats: love Vi
  
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• England v Pakistan: Michael Vaughan questions Stuart Broad's timing

  02-06-2018 15:18 via bbc.co.uk
  A timeline of the views expressed by Michael Vaughan and Stuart Broad on each other's opinions and form.
  
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• England v Pakistan: start of day two of second Test delayed by rain – live!

  02-06-2018 13:57 via theguardian.com
  Over-by-over updates from the action at HeadingleyRain delays start of second day’s playSign up for The Spin, our weekly cricket emailEmail [email protected] with any thoughts 12.57pm BST Rain update “The MO’s Rain Radar shows that the rain is moving NW and will clear from the SE quite soon,” says Christopher Squire. “The main area of rain is to the east and heading for North Yorkshire, not Headingley. There is small but heavy area of rain of over Doncaster
  
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• Stuart Broad: 'I rang Michael Vaughan because he knows NOTHING about England'

  02-06-2018 01:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  STUART BROAD has revealed he rang Michael Vaughan after he called for him to be dropped because the former England captain 'doesn’t know what the changing room’s like' and lacks 'insight' into the team.
  
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