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• Ben Stokes may find door to Australia’s Big Bash is closed to him this off-season

  16-08-2018 20:41
  • It’s definitely not a good look, says Sixers’ Jodie Hawkins
  • Stokes played Big Bash for Melbourne Renegades in 2015Ben Stokes could see his return to the Big Bash League blocked, with the Australian team who were leading the chase to sign him ruling out any formal approach until after a cricket disciplinary commission has reached a decision on any punishment.
  Although Stokes was acquitted of affray after a week-long trial at Bristol crown court, the Sydney Sixers, who ha
  
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• Ben Stokes may find door to Australia’s Big Bash closed to him this off-season

  16-08-2018 20:41
  • It’s definitely not a good look, says Sixers’ Jodie Hawkins
  • Stokes played Big Bash for Melbourne Renegades in 2015Ben Stokes could see his return to the Big Bash League blocked, with the Australian team who were leading the chase to sign him ruling out any formal approach until after a cricket disciplinary commission has reached a decision on any punishment.Although Stokes was acquitted of affray after a week-long trial at Bristol crown court, the Sydney Sixers, who hav
  
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• 'I slept and cried for three days' - England's Cross on anxiety and depression

  16-08-2018 19:51 via bbc.co.uk
  England women's bowler Kate Cross on her "sense of emptiness", not wanting to see her team-mates and regaining her love for cricket.
  
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• Ben Stokes should have faced assault charge, says man he felled

  16-08-2018 19:38
  Ryan Hale was punched in the face by the cricketer, who was acquitted of affrayA former soldier knocked unconscious by England cricketer Ben Stokes during a street brawl in Bristol has said he cannot understand why the sportsman was not charged with assault by the Crown Prosecution Service.Stokes was acquitted of affray this week after a trial at Bristol crown court. But Ryan Hale, who served with the Rifles during the Afghanistan war, said he “struggled to understand” why Stokes had
  
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• Ireland's Shillington aims to end 21-year career on a high

  16-08-2018 16:27 via bbc.co.uk
  Clare Shillington will bring her 21-year career at the top of Ireland women's cricket to an end at the World Twenty20.
  
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• England boast all-rounders but too many Swiss army knives will blunt them | Tim de Lisle

  16-08-2018 16:10
  Stokes, Woakes, Moeen, Roland-Jones, the Currans, Rashid and Bess provide options and, while packing the team with them would not work, they can help make England better travellersHow many players are there in a cricket team? The simple answer, as you know, is 11 but when the team in question is England’s Test side, things are seldom simple. The true answer is anything from three to 15.In the last Ashes series, Joe Root had only three players coming up with the sportsman’s favourite
  
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• Trevor Bayliss urges Ben Stokes to issue public apology over Bristol brawl

  16-08-2018 15:50
  • ‘I’m sure something will be forthcoming,’ says head coach
  • Bayliss stops short of confirming Stokes will play in third TestEngland’s head coach, Trevor Bayliss, has called on Ben Stokes to make a public apology over the events which led to his eventual acquittal for affray.Stokes was cleared of any criminal wrongdoing at Bristol crown court on Tuesday, almost 11 months after being arrested following a brawl outside a nightclub in the Clifton area of the city.
  
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• Trevor Bayliss expects Ben Stokes to issue public apology over Bristol brawl

  16-08-2018 15:50
  • ‘I’m sure something will be forthcoming,’ says head coach
  • Bayliss stops short of confirming Stokes will play in third TestTrevor Bayliss expects Ben Stokes to follow up a private apology to his England teammates with a more public show of contrition following the street fight in Bristol last September that led ultimately to the all-rounder being cleared of affray.Speaking before Saturday’s third Test against India at Trent Bridge, where Stokes could make a r
  
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• Bledisloe Cup classics, a Maradona unveiling and a Barry Chuckle tribute | Classic YouTube

  16-08-2018 11:00
  Also featuring Stuart Broad and beans at Trent Bridge, a goose on the pitch and a Nick Kyrgios 115mph forehand winner1) It’s the first Bledisloe Cup match of 2018 between New Zealand and Australia so let’s begin with this utterly ridiculous Christian Cullen try from 2000, with significant input from Jonah Lomu and Tana Umaga. Cullen, again, this time going it alone in Dunedin in 1997. Stirling Mortlock waltzing through the All Black midfield before popping the ball off to Scott Stani
  
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