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• Kia Super League: Loughborough Lightning set up final place despite defeat

  18-08-2018 23:12 via bbc.co.uk
  Loughborough seal a Kia Super League final place despite defeat by Yorkshire while Surrey and Western Storm set up a semi-final against each other.
  
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• Chris Woakes: ‘Ben Stokes is a big-game player, he’s worked extremely hard’

  18-08-2018 22:31
  • Woakes’s fellow all-rounder catches Virat Kohli on 97
  • ‘He made that catch look quite easy … it was a big wicket‘Chris Woakes praised the big-game temperament of Ben Stokes after his fellow all-rounder punctuated a low-key return to the England team by taking the catch that led to the decisive wicket of Virat Kohli on the first day of the third Test.Stokes, back in an England shirt four days after he was acquitted of affray at Bristol crown court, did little
  
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• 'No movie script-like performance and no hero's welcome' - Stokes' low-key England return

  18-08-2018 21:48 via bbc.co.uk
  The on-field action quickly overpowered the frenzy of Ben Stokes' return to the England team at Trent Bridge on Saturday.
  
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• Ben Stokes turns damp squib into cathartic release by pouching Kohli | Ali Martin

  18-08-2018 21:33
  Roar at catching India’s captain on 97 shows England all-rounder’s relief at being back centre stage for the right reasonsWho writes your scripts? So asked Graham Gooch of Ian Botham at the Oval in 1986 after the all-rounder picked up a wicket with his first ball back in Test cricket after a 63-day ban for admitting to smoking dope.This was one of many scene-stealing moments in Botham’s outstanding career, making New Zealand’s Bill Edgar Test victim No 355 and, there
  
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• Virat Kohli inspires India fightback but misses century in third England Test

  18-08-2018 20:19
  • India 307-6 v England
  • Virat Kohli dismissed three short of century by Adil RashidMarshalled by their captain, Virat Kohli, India reignited this series as a contest. After their humiliation at Lord’s India finished a fine day of Test cricket on 307 for six with Kohli and his vice-captain, Ajinkya Rahane, compiling a crucial 159-run partnership in the afternoon. This was a source of great relief to the Indian camp, tempered by the loss of Hardik Pandya to the last ball of the d
  
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• England v India: Virat Kohli & Ajinkya Rahane star on day one of third Test

  18-08-2018 20:19 via bbc.co.uk
  India's batsmen make a strong start to the third Test at Trent Bridge, finishing day one on 307-6, thanks to Virat Kohli's 97 and Ajinkya Rahane's 81.
  
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• England v India: third Test, day one – as it happened

  18-08-2018 19:46
  England won the toss, put India in and were frustrated as Ajinkya Rahane and Virat Kohli, who eventually fell for 97, put on 159 for the fourth wicket 6.46pm BST That’s all from me. Tim and Adam Collins will be here for more tomorrow. Bye! 6.44pm BST Having lost a wicket from the last ball before lunch, another from the last ball of the day, and their captain just before his century, India will feel they could have done better. They have still done very well, mind, established a solid foun
  
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• England v India: Virat Kohli dismissed by Adil Rashid on 97

  18-08-2018 18:53 via bbc.co.uk
  India's Virat Kohli edges England's Adil Rashid to Ben Stokes at slip to fall for 97 on day one of the third Test at Trent Bridge.
  
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• England v India: Alastair Cook's catch dismisses Ajinkya Rahane

  18-08-2018 18:09 via bbc.co.uk
  England's Alastair Cook takes "an absolute blinder" of a catch at first slip to dismiss India's Ajinkya Rahane for 81 during day one of the third Test at Trent Bridge.
  
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• England v India: Stuart Broad is halted by a bug flying into his mouth mid-run up

  18-08-2018 17:50 via bbc.co.uk
  England's Stuart Broad is stopped in his tracks by a bug flying into his mouth during the evening session on day one of the third Test against India at Trent Bridge.
  
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• England v India: Chris Woakes dismisses Shikhar Dhawan

  18-08-2018 13:37 via bbc.co.uk
  Chris Woakes dismisses Shikhar Dhawan for 35 as India start positively in the third Test at Trent Bridge.
  
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• England v India: Ben Stokes receives mixed reception on return at Trent Bridge

  18-08-2018 12:57 via bbc.co.uk
  Ben Stokes receives a mixed reception at Trent Bridge on his return to cricket after being found not guilty of affray.
  
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• Sean Ervine: Derbyshire sign Hampshire all-rounder on loan

  18-08-2018 11:44 via bbc.co.uk
  Veteran Hampshire all-rounder Sean Ervine joins Derbyshire on an initial 28-day loan.
  
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• Holders Notts Outlaws & Sussex make T20 Blast quarter-finals

  18-08-2018 11:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Defending T20 Blast champions Notts Outlaws and Sussex Sharks win their final group games to secure the last two quarter-final spots.
  
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• England vs India live stream: Watch third Test online and on TV as Ben Stokes returns

  18-08-2018 11:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  ENGLAND lead India 2-0 and viewers tuning to watch and stream the third Test could see the home side seal the series with two matches to spare.
  
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• England v India: third Test, day one – live!

  18-08-2018 11:15
  Over-by-over updates from first day’s play at Trent BridgeStokes affair a dismal tale of power without responsibilityAnd feel free to email Tim or tweet him @TimdeLisle 10.14am BST Morning everyone and welcome to something very few cricket lovers have experienced before – a Test in England starting on a Saturday. The last time this happened was in 1955. It reminds me of that line of Leonard Cohen’s - “I haven’t been this happy since the end of World War Two”.
  
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