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• Ominous Australia relocate mojo at Women's World T20 | Adam Collins

  14-11-2018 18:00
  Meg Lanning’s side have wasted no time in pushing into top gear in the CaribbeanSame, same but different. On the face of it, Australia always do this. They come into a global tournament, cruise through the group stage, and arrive at the semi-finals as logical favourites. Invariably the top-ranked side on arrival, expectations are in keeping with a national side that has only rarely not been the top of the pile in whatever format of the game they are competing in.However, as far as mindset
  
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• ‘Joe Root wants us to take risks,’ says England’s Sam Curran after vital innings

  14-11-2018 14:30
  • Curran top-scored with 64 on day one of second Test
  • Sri Lanka 26-1 in reply to England’s first innings 285You can see why they do not leave him out anymore and if he keeps batting like this he will soon be another contender to play at number three. Sam Curran top-scored for England – by one run – and yet again played a key role in bolstering a total alongside the tail.This was his third half-century for England and he has reached every one of them with a six, a un
  
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• Sam Curran leads England’s second Test fightback against Sri Lanka

  14-11-2018 13:01
  • England 285; Sri Lanka 26-1
  • Curran blasts six sixes in last-wicket standOn a beige surface as dry and crumbly as a forgotten biscuit at the bottom of the tin England, with the considerable benefit of batting first, put some runs on the board – 285 of them. Whether that is enough to control the game we must wait to know for sure but the likelihood is that this is a highly satisfactory total. It is more certain that this surface is offering more help to the spinners than the on
  
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• Cricketers risk being caught out in quest for life beyond the boundary | Andy Bull

  14-11-2018 13:00
  Pally dressing-room habits prove hard to undo for some of those hoping to forge new careers outside the sportIt’s a long way from Burton upon Trent to Galle and in the Hilton at St George’s Park last Thursday you could feel every yard of the gap. Away in Sri Lanka, England had just declared their second innings and were now pressing on towards victory in the first Test. Back in the Midlands, a couple of dozen of their county colleagues were in the Hilton’s Howard Wilkinson suit
  
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• Sri Lanka v England: second Test, day one – as it happened

  14-11-2018 12:48
  Two more wonderful innings from Jos Buttler and Sam Curran helped England to a competitive but not imposing score on a pitch that ragged from the start, setting up what could be a thrilling TestDay one report from Vic Marks 12.11pm GMT Read Vic Marks’s report from the ground: Related: England fight back against Sri Lanka thanks to Sam Curran’s rearguard action11.48am GMT Still, Sri Lanka might find batting easier as the ball gets softer - might - and if they can get some momentum, we
  
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• Indian Premier League: Mitchell Starc released by Kolkata Knight Riders 'by text'

  14-11-2018 12:42 via bbc.co.uk
  Australia bowler Mitchell Starc says he has been dropped from his contract with Indian Premier League side Kolkata Knight Riders - by text.
  
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• Quiz: Name England's nine number threes since Jonathan Trott

  14-11-2018 11:32 via bbc.co.uk
  How many of England's number three batsmen can you name since Jonathan Trott vacated the position?
  
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• Sri Lanka v England: second Test, day one – live!

  14-11-2018 07:36
  Over-by-over updates from the second Test in KandyAmy Jones seizes World T20 chance with both glovesAnd feel free to email [email protected] 6.35am GMT 30th over: England 120-4 (Buttler 38, Moeen Ali 4) Dilruwan Perera comes on for the last over before lunch and is lapped for two by Buttler. I can’t remember an England batsman playing as many sweeps since Graham Gooch’s masterpiece in the 1987 World Cup semi-final. A handful of singles make it another good over for England, w
  
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• Women's World Twenty20: Australia beat New Zealand – as it happened

  14-11-2018 04:05
  Alyssa Healy hits 53 off 38 to set up 33-run victoryAmy Jones looking to seize chance with both gloves 3.05am GMT A comfortable victory in the end, after Australia chose to bat first and ran up a total beyond New Zealand. Healy and Mooney did the damage, helped by New Zealand’s fielding. The Kiwis were always chasing the game despite a good outing from Suzie Bates and a couple of useful knocks from Katey Martin and Leigh Kasperek. Schutt was the best of the bowlers for Australia with 3 for
  
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• Alyssa Healy blasts Australia past New Zealand and into WWT20 semi-finals

  14-11-2018 03:59
  Australia 153-7; New Zealand 120 all out (17.2 overs)Healy scores 53 off 38 balls to set up 33-run victory“You come at the king,” declared The Wire’s beloved Omar Little when addressing a failed assassin, “you best not miss.” Replace king with queen, and that’s just what Amelia Kerr did when putting down the easiest of chances to dismiss Alyssa Healy in the third over of Australia’s innings. The red-hot opener needed no further invitation to smash yet an
  
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• Caught on tape: the story behind Australian cricket's greatest fall | Geoff Lemon

  14-11-2018 02:00
  In an extract from his new book, Geoff Lemon recalls the moment Australia’s sporting reputation was scuffed foreverYou know it’s serious when Mluleki Ntsabo isn’t smiling. The South African Broadcasting Corporation commentator is small in stature and huge in energy, beaming a high-wattage grin as he booms away in English on the main mics or Xhosa on the update line. But as I walked into the broadcast area on the third afternoon of the Cape Town Test in March 2018, he came bounc
  
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• Women's World Twenty20: Australia v New Zealand – live!

  14-11-2018 01:33
  Updates from the match at Providence StadiumAny thoughts? Email or tweet @GeoffLemonSportAmy Jones looking to seize chance with both gloves 12.33am GMT 8th over: Australia 69-0 (Mooney 25, Healy 43) Hannah Rowe for the eight over, a long run-up for right-arm seam, coming round the wicket to try and cramp things up. Doesn’t work, as Healy lashes a full ball over cover for four! Loves that shot. And pulls the next for four more. It wasn’t even short, she had to bend down to play that p
  
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