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• England’s trickiest Test dilemma: to stick or twist with Stuart Broad

  29-10-2018 19:00
  Joe Root keeps England’s options open as they gear up for the opening Test against Sri Lanka with seamer’s place one of several difficult decisions aheadIf there is no cricket scheduled in Colombo the sun shines obediently. England were able to set to work at the Nondescripts ground in the heart of Colombo with their red balls. On Tuesday they begin the first of two two-day practice matches. These are not first-class games and they may prove to be an ugly spectacle as all the batsmen
  
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• Adam Wheater: Essex wicketkeeper-batsman signs new two-year deal

  29-10-2018 16:30 via bbc.co.uk
  Essex wicketkeeper-batsman Adam Wheater signs a new two-year contract to keep him at the club until 2020.
  
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• Buttler will keep in Sri Lanka if Bairstow not fit - Root

  29-10-2018 09:49 via bbc.co.uk
  England captain Joe Root says Jos Buttler is likely to keep wicket against Sri Lanka if Jonny Bairstow is ruled out.
  
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• Australia's cricket culture review leaves reasons to be sceptical | Sam Perry

  29-10-2018 09:10
  The question is, will the dual reports lead to tangible change or are they just an exercise in PR?
  There was always the sense that David Warner and Steve Smith were left to bear the many sins of many fathers following last year’s events in South Africa. Their punishments were swift and eye-wateringly fierce. Their reprimand at the hands of the public, media and CA suits was immortalised in a cavalcade of airport press conference tears. But in the throes of moral panic at home and abroad, t
  
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• Ball-tampering review finds Cricket Australia 'arrogant and controlling'

  29-10-2018 06:12 via bbc.co.uk
  Players were pushed to act "the mongrel", says a scathing review into a ball-tampering saga.
  
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• Cricket Australia releases damning findings of cultural review – as it happened

  29-10-2018 04:31
  CA branded ‘arrogant’ and ‘dictatorial’ by reportJust one of 42 recommendations not accepted3.31am GMT Plenty more fallout to come from all this. Stay tuned for all that, but for this liveblog, that’s all for now. Thanks for reading, and here’s the news report: Related: Cricket Australia 'arrogant' and partly to blame for ball-tampering, report finds3.21am GMT A word on the Players’ Pact, which in comparison to The Ethics Centre review is entirely non co
  
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• Cricket Australia 'arrogant' and partly to blame for ball-tampering, report finds

  29-10-2018 04:28
  Damning report finds CA had ‘win-at-all-costs’ mentality Review says ‘Australian cricket has lost its balance’Cricket Australia has been branded “arrogant” and “controlling” and partly responsible for the ball-tampering incident that led to bans for former captain Steve Smith and vice-captain David Warner.An independent report into the organisation’s culture found there was “strong systemic and organisational input” into the decis
  
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• Cricket Australia releases findings of cultural review – live!

  29-10-2018 04:13
  Updates as CA respond to findings following ball tamperingAny thoughts? Email or tweet @mike_hytner 3.13am GMT Suffice to say, reaction to today’s events hasn’t been uniformly positive.Since the Cricket Australia report was submitted The time since seems to be about protecting people from outside scrutiny. the organisation won't change the attitude of living in a bubble until it chooses to expose itself to the outside and right now it’s unwilling to do so.So #CricketAustralia B
  
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• Cricket Australia to release findings of cultural review – live!

  29-10-2018 02:11
  Updates as CA respond to findings following ball tamperingAny thoughts? Email or tweet @mike_hytner 1.11am GMT Here’s more from Mark Taylor, speaking on Channel Nine on Sunday.“Everything is on the table. All of us have had too much negativity around the game. [Monday) is the opportunity to get it out there. There is no doubt there is a mandate, as I would look at it, in these reviews for CA to make some change, to get better at what we do, and also, most importantly, to get on with
  
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• Dismal Australia whitewashed by Pakistan in Twenty20 series

  29-10-2018 00:20
  Australia lose third T20 by 33 runs and series 3-0‘We just panicked a little bit again,’ says Aaron Finch Australia slumped to a grim whitewash defeat in the T20 series against Pakistan, losing the third and final game in Dubai by 33 runs. Chasing 151 to win in the dead rubber, the tourists were bowled out for 117 with five balls to spare in a dismal ending to the tour of the UAE, where they again proved no match for the world’s No 1-ranked T20 side, failing to build any substa
  
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• Dismal Aussies whitewashed in T20 series

  29-10-2018 00:20
  Australia lose third T20 by 33 runs and series 3-0‘We just panicked a little bit again,’ says Aaron Finch Australia slumped to a grim whitewash defeat in the T20 series against Pakistan, losing the third and final game in Dubai by 33 runs. Chasing 151 to win in the dead rubber, the tourists were bowled out for 117 with five balls to spare in a dismal ending to the tour of the UAE, where they again proved no match for the world’s No 1-ranked T20 side, failing to build any substa
  
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