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• Joe Root returns his best figures as Yorkshire win short battle of the Roses

  24-07-2018 20:29 via theguardian.com
  • England Test captain takes four for five in 118-run success
  • Yorkshire out of bottom two but result puts Lancashire in perilJoe Root, despite scoring only 22 and three, still contributed significantly as Yorkshire wrapped up a 118-run Roses win over struggling Lancashire inside three days. The England Test captain took three of four morning wickets with his proficient off-spinners to secure career best figures of four for five.Root, hailed as a “golden arm” by coach Andr
  
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• County cricket: Yorkshire beat Lancashire, Surrey thrash Notts – as it happened

  24-07-2018 20:17 via theguardian.com
  Graham Hardcastle saw Yorkshire win the Roses derby to leave Lancashire in relegation trouble, while leaders Surrey romped to another win 7.45pm BST Here’s a roundup of all today’s action. Join us again tomorrow! Related: Joe Root returns his best figures as Yorkshire win short battle of the Roses7.17pm BST Notts 210 & 199, Surrey 592; Surrey win by an innings and 183 runs
  Lancs 109-9 and 204, Yorks 192 & 239; Yorkshire win by 118 runs
  Worcs 257 and 50-2, Somerset 337 & 3
  
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• Who did you pick in your England team to face India?

  24-07-2018 19:28 via bbc.co.uk
  Where should Joe Root bat? And who wins a recall? BBC Sport users select their England side for the first Test against India next week.
  
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• England v India: BBC Sport users pick team for first Test at Edgbaston

  24-07-2018 19:28 via bbc.co.uk
  Where should Joe Root bat? And who wins a recall? BBC Sport users select their England side for the first Test against India next week.
  
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• County Championship: Middlesex clinch dramatic 18-run win over Warwickshire

  24-07-2018 19:13 via bbc.co.uk
  Tim Murtagh and James Fuller star as Middlesex wrap up an 18-run win over Division Two leaders Warwickshire at Lord's.
  
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• ECB rejects claims of 12 or 15-man teams for The Hundred

  24-07-2018 19:01 via theguardian.com
  • 11 players will continue to appear on teamsheets
  • ‘No final decisions’ made on beleaguered competitionThe England and Wales Cricket Board has rejected a new round of leaked reports that said the besieged 100-ball domestic competition would comprise teams of 12 or 15 active players where 11 are nominated to bat with the remainder permitted to bowl.The working group assembled to iron out the kinks of the new competition – known as the high-performance group – i
  
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• County cricket: Yorkshire beat Lancashire, Somerset v Worcs and more – live!

  24-07-2018 16:48 via theguardian.com
  Live updates from across the County ChampionshipCounty cricket talking points for the week
  Email or tweet Graham your thoughts 3.48pm BST Big wicket for Middlesex. James Harris has just trapped Sam Hain lbw for 37, ending a 44-run stand with Tim Ambrose (unbeaten 19). They had taken Warwickshire to 108-5 in pursuit of 203, but Middlesex now only need four wickets at Lord’s to topple the Division Two leaders. Jeetan Patel in now. Azhar Ali is within three runs of a debut century for Somerse
  
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• Morkel helps leaders Surrey wrap up win at Notts

  24-07-2018 15:20 via bbc.co.uk
  Surrey bowl out Nottinghamshire to win by an innings and 183 runs and increase their lead at the top of Division One.
  
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• County cricket: Yorkshire beat Lancashire, Notts v Surrey and more – live!

  24-07-2018 14:53 via theguardian.com
  Live updates from across the County ChampionshipCounty cricket talking points for the week
  Email or tweet Graham your thoughts 1.53pm BST At Chesterfield, Wayne Madsen is closing in on his second hundred of the season for Derbyshire, who have the upper hand against Northamptonshire. They are 253-5 in their second innings, leading by 224. Madsen is unbeaten on 93.Moving up to Division One, Pakistan batsman Azhar Ali (46) is closing in on a debut fifty for Somerset against Worcestershire at New Ro
  
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• Adil Rashid and the gulf between wrist-spin in ODIs and Tests | Vic Marks

  24-07-2018 13:36 via theguardian.com
  The longer form of the game is in so many ways more demanding than white-ball cricket – distant personal experience reminds me of thatPhil Edmonds, independent thinker, entrepreneur, Cambridge graduate and the most gifted of left-arm spinners, once declared that he would like to circumvent county cricket. Of course he would like to play Test matches for England and he proposed that he would prepare for that by bowling, not for Middlesex, but in club cricket in London. It was a neat idea bu
  
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• Career-best 4-5 from Root helps Yorkshire win Roses match

  24-07-2018 13:13 via bbc.co.uk
  England Test captain Joe Root takes a career-best 4-5 as Yorkshire beat Lancashire early on day three at Old Trafford.
  
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