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• Women’s World Twenty20 highlights: Kaur century as India beat New Zealand

  09-11-2018 22:34 via bbc.co.uk
  Harmenpreet Kaur hits 103 off just 51 balls as India beat New Zealand by 34 runs to win the opening match of the ICC Women's World T20.
  
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• Women's World T20: Australia v Pakistan – live!

  09-11-2018 21:12
  Updates on the Group B clash at Guyana National StadiumSciver’s talents vital for England with Brunt missingAny thoughts? Email or tweet @JPHowcroft8.12pm GMT 3rd over: Australia 33-0 (Healy 31, Mooney 1) Healy is on a mission. Another new bowler and another array of boundaries all around the Providence Stadium. A misfield gifts a four through mid-off, a powerful drive through cover earns one more, and then a delightful late glance engineers a third for the over through the vacant slip cor
  
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• Women’s World Twenty20: India's Harmanpreet Kaur smashes eight sixes

  09-11-2018 18:35 via bbc.co.uk
  India's Harmanpreet Kaur smashes eight sixes in her century in the opening match of the ICC Women's World T20 against New Zealand.
  
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• Women's World T20: Katherine Brunt ruled out with a back injury

  09-11-2018 18:19 via bbc.co.uk
  England are dealt a major blow before the Women's World Twenty20 as all-rounder Katherine Brunt is ruled out with a back injury.
  
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• Women’s World Twenty20: Hayley Jensen 'wonderful' catch removes Smriti Mandhana

  09-11-2018 16:45 via bbc.co.uk
  A "wonderful" catch from New Zealand's Hayley Jensen removes India opener Smriti Mandhana in the ICC Women's World Twenty20 group game in Guyana.
  
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• Women's World Twenty20: Ireland confident for opener against Australia

  09-11-2018 16:19 via bbc.co.uk
  Ireland hope to build on an impressive warm-up win over Sri Lanka when they start the Women's World Twenty20 against top-ranked Australia.
  
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• Joe Root savours first Test away win as captain after rout of Sri Lanka

  09-11-2018 15:08
  • Root delighted after England end 13-match winless away run
  • Captain praises performance of Test debutant Ben FoakesThis was a new experience for Joe Root. He had never led England to victory overseas before. But he managed not to get too carried away after England’s emphatic win.“Hopefully this is not a one-off. We go to Kandy with a huge amount of confidence”, he said with a quiet smile on his face. “It is not just us; it has become difficult across the boar
  
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• Hard to pick team from 'fantastic squad' says Root - plus select your XI

  09-11-2018 13:54 via bbc.co.uk
  After their thumping first-Test win, England captain Joe Root says the selectors have a tough job to pick a team for the second Test.
  
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• England complete crushing 211-run win against Sri Lanka

  09-11-2018 12:55 via bbc.co.uk
  England complete a thumping victory in the first Test against Sri Lanka to end their 13-match winless streak away from home.
  
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• Australia beat South Africa in second one-day international – as it happened

  09-11-2018 12:47
  South Africa fall short in run chase at Adelaide OvalHosts win by sevens runs to set up series decider in Hobart 11.44am GMTRelated: Australia snap losing streak and level ODI series with South Africa11.42am GMT At 204-9 batting first on a flat Adelaide Oval it looked as though Australia’s dismal run of form was set to continue. A late flurry of runs from the tail helped post 231, but it still looked well short of a competitive total.That it proved enough was down to some inspired captainc
  
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• Australia snap losing streak and level ODI series with South Africa

  09-11-2018 12:42
  Australia 231 all out (48.3 overs); South Africa 224-9 Hosts win by sevens runs to set up series decider in HobartAustralian allrounder Marcus Stoinis helped engineer a seven-run win against South Africa to snap a one-day cricket losing streak. The South Africans, chasing 232 at Adelaide Oval, made 224-9 as Australia set up a series-deciding game three in Hobart on Sunday.Stoinis took 3-35 and quicks Josh Hazlewood (2-42) and Pat Cummins (1-27) stifled the South Africans. But Australia’s b
  
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• England spin their way to 211-run victory in first Test in Sri Lanka

  09-11-2018 12:31
  • England 342 & 322-6; Sri Lanka 203 & 250• Herath last man out in final act of illustrious careerEngland wrapped up their first overseas Test victory for more than two years, downing Sri Lanka at their Galle stronghold by 211 runs with a day to spare.There have been 13 games since the last success on foreign soil - taking in trips to Bangladesh, Australia, India and New Zealand - but England banished their travel sickness in style, led by Moeen Ali’s best match figures a
  
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• England beat Sri Lanka by 211 runs inside four days at first Test – as it happened

  09-11-2018 12:19
  Rangana Herath’s Test career ended in emphatic defeat as England sealed victory over Sri Lanka by 211 runs 11.48am GMT The match report from Galle. Related: England spin their way to 211-run victory in first Test in Sri LankaRelated: Australia snap losing streak and level ODI series with South AfricaRelated: World T20: Sciver’s all-round talents even more vital to England without Brunt11.19am GMT And with that, and the presentation to Herath of a load more stuff, and a lengthy speech
  
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• Dane Vilas: Lancashire appoint new county captain to succeed Liam Livingstone

  09-11-2018 11:59 via bbc.co.uk
  Lancashire appoint South African Dane Vilas as their new county captain to succeed Liam Livingstone.
  
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• World T20: Sciver’s all-round talents even more vital to England without Brunt

  09-11-2018 11:30
  England have been dealt a major blow by Katherine Brunt’s departure at the women’s World T20 and Australia will be favourites in West IndiesThe last time England played Sri Lanka in a major tournament opener, at the 2013 World Cup, they lost in embarrassing fashion to the tournament’s bottom-ranked team. Five years on, as they gear up for their opening game against the same opposition in St Lucia on Saturday, this time in a World T20, they will be hoping to avoid a similar fate
  
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• Sri Lanka v England: tourists one wicket from victory on day four – live!

  09-11-2018 11:30
  Over-by-over report on the opening Test in GalleWomen’s World T20: team-by-team guide to the actionAnd email Simon with any thoughts or predictions 10.30am GMT 82nd over: Sri Lanka 242-9 (Lakmal 9, Herath 2) Rashid takes off yet more pace, and locates yet more turn.10.25am GMT 81st over: Sri Lanka 240-9 (Lakmal 8, Herath 1) Fans crowd the fences in anticipation of the coup de grace, but Moeen cannot deliver it. Maiden. 10.23am GMT 80th over: Sri Lanka 240-9 (Lakmal 8, Herath 1) Well that w
  
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• Australia v South Africa: second one-day international – live!

  09-11-2018 06:07
  Updates from the encounter at Adelaide OvalAny thoughts? Email or tweet @GeoffLemonSport 5.07am GMT 26th over: Australia 115-3 (Lynn 26, Carey 10)The off-side field is up in the circle, so Carey goes inside out and over the top of them for four against Tahir. Misses the sweep outside off stump to follow though. 5.04am GMT 25th over: Australia 110-3 (Lynn 25, Carey 6)Lynn launches at Pretorius, but only toe-ends the slower ball. It soars high in the air, skyscraper high, but has enough on it to c
  
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• Sri Lanka v England: first Test, day four – live!

  09-11-2018 06:06
  Over-by-over report on the opening Test in GalleWomen’s World T20: team-by-team guide to the actionAnd email Tanya with any thoughts or predictions 5.06am GMT 15th over: Sri Lanka 33-0 (Karunaratne 13, Kaushal 20) The Sri Lankan batsmen looking a little more at home now -knocking the ball for relatively easy singles off their toes. The shadows are out on the ground and the sun is burning through mist. Sky are showing a palm tree and a shimmering ocean behind. The bastards.5.01am GMT 14th o
  
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• Shane Warne puts up hand to aid troubled Cricket Australia

  09-11-2018 00:21
  Former Test spinner ‘more than happy to help’CA could potentially split Pat Howard’s job in twoSpin great Shane Warne says he’s willing to help out Cricket Australia and questions why more of his former international teammates haven’t been appointed as consultants.The upheaval at CA continued to unfold this week, with executives Pat Howard and Ben Amarfio the latest powerful figures to depart the governing body. In his column for the Herald Sun, Warne said the exper
  
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