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• T20 Blast: Johann Myburgh's unbeaten 54 guides Somerset to six-wicket win at Hampshire

  08-08-2018 23:09 via bbc.co.uk
  Johann Myburgh puts in a man-of-the-match display for Somerset, scoring an unbeaten 54 to guide them to a six-wicket win at Hampshire in the T20 Blast.
  
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• T20 Blast: Somerset's Johann Myburgh breaks bat while hitting boundary in win over Hampshire

  08-08-2018 22:48 via bbc.co.uk
  Somerset opener Johann Myburgh breaks his bat in two when hitting a boundary in their six-wicket win at Hampshire in the T20 Blast.
  
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• England face all-round dilemma at Lord’s but India may try positive spin | Vic Marks

  08-08-2018 22:00
  Chris Woakes or Moeen Ali could step in for the second Test while the tourists, whose bowlers contributed hugely to the drama at Edgbaston, may opt for a second spinnerThe excitement of both sides at the prospect of a Lord’s Test with the sun shining and the stands bursting will be tempered with apprehension. The concerns of India will be greater if only because they are 1-0 down after a match at Edgbaston that could have gone either way. After such games the victors are exponentially boos
  
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• Virat Kohli plays down India batting fears before second Test – video

  08-08-2018 21:05
  India captain Virat Kohli insists there is no 'pattern' after his team-mates failed to deliver runs in the narrow defeat to England. Kohli scored 200 runs in the first Test, while the rest of India's batting line-up managed 236 between them. The second Test begins at Lord's on Thursday Continue reading...
  
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• England’s Joe Root backs Ollie Pope to overcome lack of experience at No 4

  08-08-2018 19:17
  • ‘He fits nicely into that position,’ says captain before Lord’s Test
  • Root says older players should not lose hope over Test chancesJoe Root expects Ollie Pope to demonstrate his maturity as England continue to embrace youth by entrusting him with the No 4 position, despite the 20-year-old never having batted there for his county.You have to go back to the Wanderers in 1999 for the last time an England batsman made his Test debut in the same middle-order berth
  
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• Women's Super League: Southern Vipers skipper Suzie Bates stars in 16-run win over Yorkshire Diamonds

  08-08-2018 19:14 via bbc.co.uk
  Southern Vipers captain Suzie Bates helps her team beat Yorkshire Diamonds by 16 runs, Bates finished with figures of 4-26 and had a role in five of the last six Diamonds wickets.
  
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• Counties should revolt against The Hundred and reverse the ECB coup | Matthew Engel

  08-08-2018 18:57
  ECB directors have browbeaten and bamboozled counties into giving away their power – time for a Campaign for Real CricketHere is the squad representing English cricket at the Lord’s Test on Thursday. It may not be the one you expected. Delia Bushell, Martin Darlow, Alan Dickinson, Colin Graves, Tom Harrison, Barry O’Brien, Kamlesh Patel, Lucy Pearson, Scott Smith, Jane Stichbury, Brenda Trenowden, Jim Wood.If you think that’s not so much a Who’s Who of English crick
  
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• Trevor Bayliss: ‘My demeanour is chilled but I get as nervous as anyone’ | Donald McRae

  08-08-2018 18:13
  England coach says he promotes a laid-back, hands-off image to reduce the pressure on his team and ‘you need to surround yourself with people who have strengths in areas that you don’t’‘I’m not sure how many more of those I can take,” Trevor Bayliss says with a little laugh as he reflects on England’s thrilling yet stressful defeat of India at Edgbaston. The England coach leans forward with unexpected animation in the pavilion at Lord’s, where the
  
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• Ollie Pope to make England debut at No 4 in second Test against India

  08-08-2018 14:24
  • Pope, 20, direct replacement for dropped Dawid Malan
  • England yet to confirm whether Moeen Ali or Chris Woakes playOllie Pope will make his England debut batting at No 4 in the second Test against India at Lord’s on Thursday. Related: When India first won at Lord's and changed the story of cricketContinue reading...
  
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• Ian Bell: Warwickshire batsman wants to add to 118 Test caps

  08-08-2018 13:47 via bbc.co.uk
  Warwickshire's Ian Bell still has the hunger to play for England - 12 months on from doubting whether he wanted to play cricket at all.
  
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• Warwickshire's Ian Bell has told BBC WM's Bears Podblast he was on the verge of retirement

  08-08-2018 13:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Warwickshire batsman Ian Bell tells BBC WM's Bears Podblast he considered retirement following a difficult spell in 2017.
  
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• When India first won at Lord's and changed the story of cricket

  08-08-2018 11:38
  India’s first victory at Lord’s made them world champions. It also served as a triumph over imperialism
  By Anjali Doshi for The Nightwatchman, of the Sport Network
  I can recall that day only in flashes. A Sony Trinitron colour TV encased in a hefty wooden box, my dad’s walrus-moustached friend Mukulesh in a bush shirt, his demure saree-clad wife Shobha, our new home in Bombay still reeking of fresh paint, my mosaic-tiled bedroom, the sound of cricket commentary, the smell of fr
  
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• Surrey's Ebony Rainford-Brent trips over bag on boundary during game with Lancashire

  08-08-2018 09:57 via bbc.co.uk
  Surrey director of cricket Ebony Rainford-Brent trips over a bag while trying to return a ball hit for six during their Women's Super League game against Lancashire.
  
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• How a row over narrow strip of Lord's land has rumbled on for 19 years

  08-08-2018 01:14 via bbc.co.uk
  As England and India players prepare for the second Test at Lord's there is a wrangle rumbling away not far from their feet.
  
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