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• Surrey close on county title as Lancashire face Roses defeat – as it happened

  12-09-2018 21:28 via theguardian.com
  Morne Morkel spell tightens leaders’ grip at Worcestershire, Lancashire running out of wickets in the Roses Match 8.28pm BST As the shadows from the Graeme Hick pavilion stretched their fingers towards the crumbled butter-brown edges of the New Road pitch, Surrey made an impeccable start to the run-chase that would, if successful, win them the game and the Championship. Mark Stoneman and Rory Burns batted with abandon, hitting 12 fours between them, and quickly reduced their target to 202
  
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• County cricket: Surrey close on title, Lancashire staring down relegation

  12-09-2018 21:28 via theguardian.com
  Morne Morkel spell tightens leaders’ grip at Worcestershire, Lancashire running out of wickets in the Roses Match 8.28pm BST As the shadows from the Graeme Hick pavilion stretched their fingers towards the crumbled butter-brown edges of the New Road pitch, Surrey made an impeccable start to the run-chase that would, if successful, win them the game and the Championship. Mark Stoneman and Rory Burns batted with abandon, hitting 12 fours between them, and quickly reduced their target to 202
  
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• County Championship: Gloucestershire on verge of win over Glamorgan

  12-09-2018 20:25 via bbc.co.uk
  Departing seamer Craig Miles takes 4-46 to bowl Gloucestershire to the verge of victory over Glamorgan, who lead by 18 with one wicket left.
  
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• County Championship: Northamptonshire and Derbyshire game in balance

  12-09-2018 19:54 via bbc.co.uk
  Northants reach stumps on 198-8, a lead of 231 over Derbyshire, after day three of their Division Two game.
  
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• Keaton Jennings will be nervous about Sri Lanka place, says Bayliss

  12-09-2018 19:23 via theguardian.com
  • Coach: ‘I can’t say at this stage whether he will go or not’
  • England will consider resting a senior seamer for Sri Lanka tourTrevor Bayliss has declined to offer Keaton Jennings any assurances over his place on England’s winter tour to Sri Lanka following a lean second stab at Test cricket.Ed Smith, the national selector, hinted over the weekend that, despite an average of 19.2 this summer, Jennings is likely to be on the plane in November amid a wariness ov
  
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• England bowler James Anderson pays tribute to former England captain Alastair Cook

  12-09-2018 19:03 via bbc.co.uk
  James Anderson pays tribute to "great friend" Alastair Cook after the former England captain played his final Test match in the victory over India at The Oval.
  
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• Richard Luce wasn’t so bad for the arts | Brief letters

  12-09-2018 18:34 via theguardian.com
  Arts ministers | Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe | Naomi Osaka | Cornish pasties | Lucy Mangan’s ToryboyTo be fair to Richard Luce, he rapidly learned on the job (Letters, 12 September). Largely because he was an arts “outsider”, he carried out the role in an unusually fair manner, both in relation to the regions and to participation. Albeit subject to Thatcherite dogma, he was actually a much better arts minister than the likes of the egocentric David Mellor, beholden to the
  
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• England and Joe Root feel the positives but opening question remains | Vic Marks

  12-09-2018 18:32 via theguardian.com
  Series victory against India was a fillip as was Joe Root’s century but who opens the batting in Sri Lanka is no clearerThe players deserve their rest after a whirlwind five-Test series completed in record time, which has enchanted those able to watch it. The margin of victory, 4-1, compared with 3-1 in 2014, is a bit of a puzzle since India competed far better this time around, especially when the ball was in the hands of their pacemen and the bat in the hands of their captain, Virat Kohl
  
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• County Championship: Sussex promotion hopes suffer blow with loss to Durham

  12-09-2018 17:56 via bbc.co.uk
  Sussex's hopes of sealing a Division Two promotion spot suffer a blow as Durham beat them by 186 runs at the Riverside.
  
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• Somerset escape sanction for "below average" Taunton pitch v Lancashire

  12-09-2018 17:41 via bbc.co.uk
  Somerset avoid punishment for a "below average" Taunton pitch against Lancashire but are warned of future sanctions.
  
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• County Championship: Warwickshire beat Leicestershire by an innings

  12-09-2018 16:39 via bbc.co.uk
  Warwickshire take another significant step towards promotion by beating Leicestershire by an innings and 104 runs.
  
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• Anderson at T20 Blast Finals Day - as TMS commentator, not player

  12-09-2018 16:09 via bbc.co.uk
  James Anderson will not play at T20 Blast Finals Day on Saturday, despite being made available by England.
  
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• England player ratings for the India and Pakistan Tests this summer

  12-09-2018 15:47 via theguardian.com
  Jimmy Anderson and Sam Curran were excellent in the seven Test matches but Keaton Jennings may want to look away nowBy Gary Naylor for the 99.94 Cricket BlogCook had spent the summer missing too many balls but then, suddenly, preposterously, it all melted away in the warmth of a crowd, a team and even an opposition who loved him and he enjoyed a glorious sunset at the Oval. Thanks for the runs, the Ashes and plenty more series and, most of all, the decency. Grade B- Related: Anderson and Broad c
  
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• Jimmy Anderson has Sri Lankan tour with England on mind – not retirement

  12-09-2018 13:54 via theguardian.com
  • Fast bowler admits career end may be as swift as McGrath’s
  • Record wicket taker has no interest in winding down nowJimmy Anderson has admitted that thoughts of retirement could hit him out of the blue, as he believes happened to Glenn McGrath when the great Australian called time on his all-conquering career at the end of the 2006/07 Ashes.But after passing McGrath’s record of 563 Test wickets – the previous highest tally by a seam bowler - the 36-year-old has no i
  
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• How Anderson became the world's best - and is he getting better?

  12-09-2018 13:23 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC Sport analyses the numbers behind James Anderson's rise to become the most successful fast bowler in Test history.
  
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• County Championship: Promotion-chasing Kent seal win over Middlesex

  12-09-2018 12:57 via bbc.co.uk
  Kent boost their promotion hopes and end those of opponents Middlesex with a three-wicket Championship win at Lord's.
  
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• County cricket: Surrey look to close on title, Middlesex v Kent and more – live!

  12-09-2018 12:25 via theguardian.com
  Updates from around the county grounds
  Hampshire beat Somerset inside two daysYou can email Tanya, tweet her or post BTL 11.25am BST Wicket at New Road. Morne Morkel is out for 16, leaving Surrey on 232-7. The good news for them is that Ben Foakes has got off his sick bed and is in action.Certainly nothing wrong with this drive from Ben Foakespic.twitter.com/fN1AXYr99x 10.31am BST Good morning from an autumnal Lord’s, where the season is moving towards an end. Somerset’s implosion ye
  
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• Anderson and Broad close on final spells of two more England journeys | The Spin

  12-09-2018 11:14 via theguardian.com
  After sharing 111 Tests with Alastair Cook the batsman’s retirement will have set the pair thinking about their own exitsThe wind was up at the Oval on Tuesday morning, blowing in low grey clouds from the south. The summer heat was gone and the light was so poor that the floodlights were on. It seemed autumn had arrived just in time for the last day of England’s season. They feel like a team on the turn themselves, this match the equinoctial point. They have lost Alastair Cook, who h
  
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• Cricket Australia's excuses for latest Glenn Maxwell snub simply don't add up | Geoff Lemon

  12-09-2018 06:53 via theguardian.com
  Selectors’ justifications for again overlooking one of Australia’s most talented players fall apart at the slightest scrutinyIn this bright new world of Australian cricket, with its sparkling cultural renovation to be unveiled at any minute, it’s reassuring that things so far remain exactly the same. The governing body followed the Cape Town ball-tampering episode earlier this year by promising a wide-ranging review into its own failings; now Cricket Australia leaders are propo
  
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• Teenagers called up for Australia women's T20 series with New Zealand

  12-09-2018 02:22 via theguardian.com
  Georgia Wareham and Tayla Vlaeminck includedSpinner Jess Jonassen misses out with knee injuryAustralia have called up two uncapped players for the upcoming women’s Twenty20 international series against New Zealand, after Jess Jonassen was ruled out due to an unfortunately-timed injury. Victorian leg-spinner Georgia Wareham and fast bowler Tayla Vlaeminck, both 19 years old, have been included in a 13-player squad for the three-match series, starting at North Sydney on 29 September.Related:
  
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• Jos Buttler: Why the returning vice-captain has been England's REAL star of the summer

  12-09-2018 01:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  OTHER players, notably Ben Stokes, Alastair Cook and James Anderson, have dominated the narrative of England’s Test summer. Yet it is Jos Buttler who has been the quiet success story after coming back following almost three years out of the team.
  
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