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• Joe Root’s modern captaincy represents a sea change for England | Andy Bull

  27-11-2018 23:00
  England have become aggressive, flexible and free-thinking, an approach more in keeping with Michael Vaughan than Alastair Cook or Andrew StraussEvery England fan needs a plan for how to follow a winter series. These last few weeks I’ve been lying in bed listening to coverage of the first session or so through an earpiece, which meant there were moments in the early hours, half awake and half asleep, when England’s victory seemed something like a dream, the work of some undigested bi
  
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• Trevor Bayliss praises ‘exemplary’ Ben Stokes before discipline hearing

  27-11-2018 18:59
  • ‘All-rounder has learned his lesson,’ says England coach• Stokes faces Cricket Discipline Commission on 10 DecemberThere are not so many clouds on the horizon now for England but they will be grateful for no complications on 10 December. That is the day when they select the tour parties for the Caribbean but just before the squads are announced the Cricket Discipline Commission is scheduled to reveal whether any further action is to be taken against Ben Stokes and Alex Ha
  
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• Women’s World Twenty20 was a joy to be part of | Lisa Sthalekar

  27-11-2018 18:00
  Australia’s devastating win over England capped a glorious 12-day Caribbean carnival of cricket An outright success. That’s the overarching feeling of everyone who was fortunate to be part of the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 2018. The first standalone World T20 for women, with every match broadcast for the first time, meant no double headers with the men, no sharing of media outlets and playing during the prime time slots to maximise viewership and attendance at the grounds.Close
  
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• Surrey begin County Championship title defence against Essex

  27-11-2018 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  County champions Surrey will start their defence of the title in April 2019 with a home match against Essex.
  
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• Kia Super League: Surrey Stars start defence at Yorkshire Diamonds

  27-11-2018 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Defending Women's Super League champions Surrey Stars begin their 2019 campaign at Yorkshire Diamonds on 6 August.
  
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• Women's Ashes: Taunton to host Test of 2019 England v Australia series

  27-11-2018 15:51 via bbc.co.uk
  England's women will face West Indies and Australia in a busy home summer of fixtures in 2019 - with Taunton hosting the Women's Ashes Test.
  
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• The Spin | A skinful of Ian Botham fills Derek Pringle’s excellent grog-filled memoir

  27-11-2018 13:45
  Former England Test bowler’s eye-popping and hilarious account of cricket in the 80s is as doused as a sherry trifleThe Spin this week is a book review of sorts but one that coincides with an anniversary too, being as it is a year to the day since England’s male cricketers were given a midnight curfew that has been in place ever since.It was 27 November 2017, the last rites of an opening defeat in the Ashes at the Gabba, when Andrew Strauss, then director of England cricket, felt mov
  
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• Yasir claims 14 wickets as Pakistan thrash New Zealand

  27-11-2018 13:40 via bbc.co.uk
  Yasir Shah claims the second best match figures by a Pakistan bowler as they beat New Zealand by an innings and 16 runs in the second Test.
  
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• ‘Mr Cricket’ Gareth Lanagan wins WSA Volunteer of the Year award

  27-11-2018 12:37 via bbc.co.uk
  College maths teacher Gareth Lanagan is named as Volunteer of the Year for the Wales Sport Awards 2018.
  
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• England 3-0 Sri Lanka: player ratings for the victorious visitors

  27-11-2018 12:25
  Ben Foakes, Jack Leach and Jonny Bairstow secured top grades as England whitewashed Sri Lanka
  By Gary Naylor for the 99.94 Cricket BlogKeaton Jennings’ outstanding 146* set up the crucial series-opening win in Galle, though he struggled thereafter. He won the dubious award of fielding at short leg for his career after a run of sensational catches off the spinners. Grade: B Related: England wrap up series whitewash but are made to sweat by spirited Sri LankaRelated: ‘We’ve shown
  
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