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• Surrey clinch County Championship title with victory at Worcestershire

  13-09-2018 21:13 via theguardian.com
  • Surrey seal first county title since 2002 after nine straight wins
  • Rory Burns: ‘We’ve been building up for this ... it means a lot’Under the inscrutable gaze of the ancient cathedral and the still-yet-green trees that line the banks of theSevern it was down to Morne Morkel to carry Surrey over the line. With a tuck off those mighty hips that have pummelled so tirelessly down his run-up over the season he nudged the bravura Dillon Pennington down to the fine-leg bo
  
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• Surrey clinch County Championship title with victory at Worcester

  13-09-2018 21:13 via theguardian.com
  • Surrey seal first county title since 2002 after nine straight wins
  • Rory Burns: ‘We’ve been building up for this ... it means a lot’Under the inscrutable gaze of the ancient cathedral and the still-yet-green trees that line the banks of the Severn it was down to Morne Morkel to carry Surrey over the line. With a tuck off those mighty hips that have pummelled so tirelessly down his run-up over the season he nudged the bravura Dillon Pennington down to the fine-leg b
  
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• Surrey win title, Yorkshire send Lancashire towards drop – as it happened

  13-09-2018 19:56 via theguardian.com
  Surrey made it to their required total of 274 with three wickets in hand to seal their first county title since 2002, while Lancashire’s survival chances look bleak 7.38pm BST As the victorious Yorkshire coach Andrew Gale, the subject of recent scathing criticism on social media, stood on the outfield contemplating a much brighter future for the county his opposite number, Lancashire’s Glen Chapple, was fielding questions about his future.It was a brief snapshot of the cut-throat nat
  
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• "The Hundred": England and Wales Cricket Board seeks overseas trademark for new 100-ball format

  13-09-2018 19:33 via bbc.co.uk
  The England and Wales Cricket Board applies for overseas trademarks for the format for its new competition, which is to be introduced in 2020.
  
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• 'It's been too long' - home-grown Surrey bid for more titles

  13-09-2018 19:15 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC Sport looks at how Surrey put their trust in home-grown talent to win their first County Championship since 2002.
  
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• Surrey win County Championship: Alec Stewart hopes county can win multiple titles

  13-09-2018 19:07 via bbc.co.uk
  Director of cricket Alec Stewart admits Surrey's 16-year wait for their latest County Championship title was too long.
  
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• County Championship: Derbyshire beat Northants in thrilling finale

  13-09-2018 18:43 via bbc.co.uk
  Derbyshire dig in to seal victory by a single wicket at Northamptonshire in an entertaining end to their Division Two match.
  
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• Surrey seal first County Championship title for 16 years

  13-09-2018 17:59 via bbc.co.uk
  Surrey win the County Championship for the first time in 16 years after beating Worcestershire by three wickets.
  
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• England to reward Jos Buttler and Sam Curran with central contracts

  13-09-2018 17:45 via theguardian.com
  • Duo played key roles in England’s series win against India
  • Test deal for Adil Rashid more uncertain after sparing useJos Buttler and Sam Curran are in line to receive Test central contacts from England at the end of the month after proving instrumental in the recent 4-1 series win over India.England have split their annual deals into red- and white-ball cricket since the end of the 2016 season, the former continuing as straight replacements for county contracts and the latter
  
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• Surrey win County Championship: Listen to Morne Morkel's title-winning boundary

  13-09-2018 16:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Listen to BBC Radio London commentary of the moment Surrey won the County Championship title for the first time since 2002.
  
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• Surrey crowned county champions after dramatic win at Worcestershire – live!

  13-09-2018 16:25 via theguardian.com
  County Championship updates from around the groundsPaul Collingwood retires after 23-year playing careerAnd you can mail Tanya, tweet her @tjaldred or post BTL 2.55pm BST And it falls to Morne Morkel. He pulls Pennington behind square and down to the pavilion boundary for four. And Surrey have done it! Their first championship since 2002. The first time they have won nine games in a row since 1957. And they’ve done it with their own home-grown little broad-beans young men who’ve been
  
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• Surrey clinch County Championship title with victory over Worcestershire

  13-09-2018 16:23 via theguardian.com
  • First championship title since 2002 after tense win
  • Depth of local talent augurs well for new championsSurrey sealed a first County Championship title for 16 years with a tense three-wicket win over Worcestershire at Blackfinch New Road.Openers Rory Burns and Mark Stoneman laid the foundations with a century stand but the bottom county made the visitors fight all the way before victory was clinched 20 minutes before tea. Seven home-grown products were part of the side which clinche
  
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• Root? Kohli? Smith? Who is the best batsman in the world?

  13-09-2018 16:08 via bbc.co.uk
  Is Joe Root better than Virat Kohli? And who else is challenging them for the title of best batsman in the world?
  
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• Paul Collingwood retires: Durham all-rounder 'was a blubbering wreck'

  13-09-2018 15:30 via bbc.co.uk
  Durham's former England captain Paul Collingwood says he was "a blubbering wreck" when he told his team-mates he was retiring.
  
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• I was a blubbering wreck - Collingwood on retirement

  13-09-2018 15:30 via bbc.co.uk
  Durham's former England captain Paul Collingwood says he was "a blubbering wreck" when he told his team-mates he was retiring.
  
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• Ex-England captain Collingwood to retire at end of season

  13-09-2018 14:55 via bbc.co.uk
  Durham's former England captain Paul Collingwood will retire at the end of the season, 22 years after his first-class debut.
  
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• County Championship: Essex beat Notts with Murali Vijay and Tom Westley tons

  13-09-2018 14:08 via bbc.co.uk
  Centuries from Murali Vijay and Tom Westley guide Essex to an eight-wicket County Championship win against Nottinghamshire.
  
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• County Championship: Yorkshire beat Lancashire by 95 runs for crucial win

  13-09-2018 12:45 via bbc.co.uk
  Yorkshire take the last three Lancashire wickets early on the final morning to complete victory in the Roses match.
  
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• County Championship: Gloucestershire ease to win over Glamorgan

  13-09-2018 12:37 via bbc.co.uk
  Gloucestershire eased to a nine-wicket win over Glamorgan after being set just 35 to win on a brief fourth day.
  
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• Who is the greatest England cricketer of all-time?

  13-09-2018 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Alastair Cook hailed Jimmy Anderson the ‘best cricketer England have ever produced’. Our correspondents beg to differYoung, svelte, pre-injury Botham was great on the numbers alone. In his first 50 Tests Botham scored 2,500 runs at 35 and took 230 wickets at 22, a swing bowler in the Anderson class. For the last eight years of the Botham Supremacy he was something else, toting around his own outlandish celebrity, still conjuring moments of paunchy brilliance, but never looked after i
  
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• Sublime swerve, motorbike madness and an introduction to Kin-Ball | Classic YouTube

  13-09-2018 11:00 via theguardian.com
  This week’s roundup also features T20 action, the best of Wesley Sneijder and Marshawn Lynch’s philosophy1) Geraldao Dutra Pereira or Geraldão, a centre-back by trade, scored probably the greatest swerving free-kick of all time that you haven’t seen for Cruzeiro in 1986.2) Burt Reynolds, who died last week aged 82, was a college football running back before he headed for Hollywood and starred in one of cinema’s most famous gridiron depictions in the Longest Yard, a
  
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• County cricket: Surrey on brink of title glory and Collingwood to retire – live!

  13-09-2018 10:22 via theguardian.com
  County Championship updates from around the groundsPaul Collingwood retires after 23-year playing careerAnd you can mail Tanya, tweet her @tjaldred or post BTL 9.22am BST Good morning. Tanya will be here a little bit later on. But let’s get the blog up in good time. Here’s where we are: Continue reading...
  
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• Zak Chappell: Nottinghamshire sign Leicestershire all-rounder

  13-09-2018 10:20 via bbc.co.uk
  Nottinghamshire sign Leicestershire all-rounder Zak Chappell on a three-year deal.
  
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