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• Amy Jones confident Loughborough Lightning can strike on Finals Day

  26-08-2018 17:08 via theguardian.com
  • Lightning have qualified for Kia Super League final
  • Jones: ‘Expectations were low. We’ve surprised people’The third edition of the Kia Super League reaches its conclusion on Monday at Hove, and the surprise finalists Loughborough Lightning are eager to prove they have every right to be there.The Midlands-based team lost their star player Ellyse Perry just weeks before this year’s tournament was due to commence – the Australian electing to stay at home
  
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• England target a long-term opening for Jonny Bairstow at top of the order

  26-08-2018 09:36 via theguardian.com
  Move to turn wicketkeeper-batsman into a specialist batsman may have to wait until the tours to Sri Lanka and West IndiesEveryone can lament the margin of England’s defeat at Trent Bridge but maybe not the outcome itself. Beyond the dressing rooms the idea of any side taking a 3-0 lead in a five-match series is stultifying. So, as the circus descends on the Ageas Bowl, the series is alive with England 2-1 up and only a fool can regard the result of the fourth Test as a foregone conclusion.
  
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• Bairstow can step up for England but it would be daft if Moeen misses out | Vic Marks

  26-08-2018 09:36 via theguardian.com
  Move to turn wicketkeeper-batsman into a specialist batsman may have to wait until the tours to Sri Lanka and West IndiesEveryone can lament the margin of England’s defeat at Trent Bridge but maybe not the outcome itself. Beyond the dressing rooms the idea of any side taking a 3-0 lead in a five-match series is stultifying. So, as the circus descends on the Ageas Bowl, the series is alive with England 2-1 up and only a fool can regard the result of the fourth Test as a foregone conclusion.
  
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• 4-3-1-2 - Irfan records best T20 figures ever

  26-08-2018 08:09 via bbc.co.uk
  Pakistan's Mohammad Irfan takes two wickets for one run in four overs - the most economical figures in Twenty20 history - in a Caribbean Premier League game.
  
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