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• Virat Kohli gives ECB’s 100-ball ‘experiment’ the thumbs down

  28-08-2018 23:23
  • India’s captain declines being a guinea pig for The Hundred• ‘Commercialism is taking over the real quality of cricket’Virat Kohli has poured scorn on the ECB’s new 100-ball format called The Hundred, saying he does not want to be part of an experiment.The India captain said commercialism “is taking over the real quality of cricket” and as a Test player he would not join the England and Wales Cricket Board’s city-based competition when it lau
  
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• 100-ball: Shane Warne and Robin Smith unsure over new proposed competition

  28-08-2018 21:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Shane Warne and Robin Smith express reservations about the ECB's proposed 100-ball competition from 2020.
  
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• Jonny Bairstow ‘desperate’ for England wicketkeeper role after injury

  28-08-2018 19:33
  • Trevor Bayliss wants to unlock ‘world-class’ batting potential
  • India bowlers could target injured finger in fourth TestIf England’s long-term plan for the Test team is to take the wicketkeeping gloves away from Jonny Bairstow in order for him to focus his energy on becoming the best specialist batsman he can be, the player remains dead against it. Related: The Martin Plan: how Test cricket can rediscover its mainstream mojoRelated: ICC makes public appeal for help
  
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• County cricket talking points: look out for spin on T20 Finals Day

  28-08-2018 15:25
  Somerset, Worcestershire, Sussex and Lancashire have made it to the most entertaining day of the season at EdgbastonBy Gary Naylor for the 99.94 Cricket BlogAll four Vitality Blast quarter-finals proved to be comfortable wins for the progressing teams, who can now look forward to the Finals Day jamboree on 15 September (if it were scheduled for 8 September, it would have a free run in the domestic sports coverage with no Premier League nor Championship football scheduled, but hey ho). It’s
  
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• County cricket quiz: How much do you know about this season's overseas players?

  28-08-2018 14:39 via bbc.co.uk
  Test your knowledge of this season's overseas players in our county cricket quiz.
  
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• The Martin Plan: how Test cricket can rediscover its mainstream mojo

  28-08-2018 12:57
  We need to make the Lord’s Test a midsummer festival of cricket for everyone, seen by the greatest number possible. And that means getting it on terrestrial TVOn the Friday before England’s defeat at Trent Bridge the BBC staged a smiley and slapstick Twenty20 match between Test Match Special and the Tailenders Podcast, with a few famous faces thrown in. Though fun, it was barely benefit-match standard. But it drew 5,000 to Derbyshire’s County Ground and, more eye-catchingly, a
  
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• ICC makes public appeal for help over identity of alleged match fixer

  28-08-2018 12:28
  • ‘The true identity of Aneel Munawar remains a mystery’
  • Cricket Australia tells al-Jazeera to give evidence to ICCThe ICC has appealed to the public to help identify and find a suspected match-fixer featured in an al-Jazeera documentary on corruption in cricket.The Qatar-based television station is planning to produce a follow-up to the documentary released this year that made several spot-fixing allegations and has indicated that the alleged fixer, known Aneel Munawar,
  
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• ICC make public appeal for help over identity of alleged match fixer

  28-08-2018 12:28
  • ‘The true identity of Aneel Munawar remains a mystery’
  • Cricket Australia tells al-Jazeera to give evidence to ICCThe ICC has appealed to the public to help identify and find a suspected match-fixer featured in an al-Jazeera documentary on corruption in cricket.The Qatar-based television station is planning to produce a follow-up to the documentary released this year that made several spot-fixing allegations and have indicated that the alleged fixer, known Aneel Munawar,
  
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• Glad to be Gary: why I treasure my deeply unpopular name

  28-08-2018 09:00
  The Guardian’s editor-at-large tells the story of how he came to be called Gary – and what happend when, 50 years on, he finally met his namesake – the sporting legend Sir Garfield SobersAlmost exactly halfway between my conception and my birth, a moment of sporting history took place that would have a significant impact on the rest of my life.Fifty years ago this week, at St Helen’s cricket ground in Swansea, a Barbados-born Nottinghamshire batsman, Garfield (Garry) Sobe
  
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