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• Stuart Broad may be the first casualty in England’s battle of spinners | Vic Marks

  03-11-2018 19:00
  Jimmy Anderson could lose his seam partner should the tourists opt for horses for courses in GalleThis is a special place for a Test match. Two sides of Galle’s cricket ground are flanked by the ocean and a third is overlooked by the magnificent old Dutch fort where the pauper and the miser can share an excellent view of the cricket. On Saturday the skeletons of the awnings to be fixed over the stands were being erected to prevent English spectators from being frazzled or drenched come Tue
  
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• Sophie Ecclestone: ‘I got him out first ball. All the lads were laughing’

  03-11-2018 13:00
  England teenager is aiming to be the best spinner at the women’s World Twenty20 nine years after bamboozling her headmasterSophie Ecclestone was 10 when her mum realised she might one day play for England. She had taken her daughter along to her primary’s after-school cricket club, and the new (and unsuspecting) headmaster asked her to bowl at him.“I got him out first ball – I knocked all three stumps out the ground,” the left-arm spinner recalls. “He was a bi
  
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• Sandpaper saga in the bin as Australia and South Africa focus on the present

  03-11-2018 02:46
  One-day series could end up being more about bowling than batting, and Steyn’s return will make it a pace duel to enjoyIt’s inevitable that with South Africa visiting Australia’s shores in November, there would be questions about the ball-tampering episode from Cape Town the previous March. But in the end, it would be hard to find anyone who cares less than the South Africans.For one thing, they’re here for limited-overs cricket. There are only five players in the squad w
  
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