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• Alastair Cook leads list of sporting New Year honours with knighthood

  28-12-2018 23:30
  Other awards for Bill Beaumont, Gareth Southgate and Geraint ThomasAlastair Cook has been hailed as an exemplary ambassador for cricket after the former England captain received a knighthood in the New Year honours list.Colin Graves, the chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, led the praise for Cook after the 34-year-old became the 11th Englishman to be knighted for services to cricket. Continue reading...
  
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• 19 for '19: unmissable sporting events to mark in your diary

  28-12-2018 19:22
  World cups will feature prominently in what promises to be a spectacular sporting yearMore than 7,000 athletes from 170 nations are due to compete at the largest multi-sport event for people with intellectual disabilities and one which in 2019 celebrates its 50th anniversary. There will be 24 different individual and team disciplines, ranging from athletics and badminton to cycling and kayaking, and Great Britain is expected to send over a team large enough to compete in every one. Related: Spor
  
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• James Anderson says Alastair Cook borrowed his box before hitting final Test century

  28-12-2018 15:57 via bbc.co.uk
  James Anderson explains why former England team-mate Alastair Cook borrowed his box before hitting a century in his final Test.
  
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• Sports prospects of 2019: the men set to shine in the year ahead

  28-12-2018 15:14
  From a much-vaunted Dutch footballer to a quick bowler and pole vaulter who broke a world record aged sevenFrenkie de Jong (Ajax & Netherlands) Related: Sports prospects of 2019: the women set to shine in the year aheadContinue reading...
  
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• Cummins strikes, but Australia's bowlers are at breaking point

  28-12-2018 11:20
  The workload of Pat Cummins and the rest of the Australian bowlers is not being helped by batsmen who are not currently doing their jobsAs Australia’s Test team has struggled in the past year, the focus has been on batting. The three players suspended last March were top-four batsmen. The replacements have struggled. Collapses have kept coming. The Sheffield Shield is not exactly a rich seam of alternatives.What gets less focus is how poor batting affects bowlers. In the Melbourne Test aga
  
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• Australia v India: Boxing Day Test, day three - as it happened

  28-12-2018 08:23
  India 54-5 in their second innings, a lead of 346Australia bowled out for 151 in just over two sessions 7.23am GMTRelated: Australia fail with the bat to put India in the box seat in third Test7.03am GMT All sport is peculiar on some level, but cricket is more peculiar than most, a reality borne out during an incredible day’s play in Melbourne. Following two days of ponderous action on a lifeless surface the Boxing Day Test exploded into life with 15 wickets falling in three madcap session
  
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• Australia fail with the bat to put India in the box seat in third Test

  28-12-2018 08:22
  India 443-7 decl. and 54-5 lead Australia 151 by 346 Jasprit Bumrah takes 6-33 as Australia collapsesIndia will resume with an imposing 346-run lead on day four of the third Test despite their stunning collapse at the MCG when Australia paceman Pat Cummins snagged 4-0 in eight consecutive deliveries. Related: Australia v India: Boxing Day Test, day three - live!Continue reading...
  
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• Healy haunts Strikers again as WBBL records are threatened

  28-12-2018 07:47
  Sydney Sixers 1-206 (20) defeat Adelaide Strikers 132 (19.1)Alyssa Healy bangs back-to-back game-winning inningsStar of the recent women’s World Twenty20, Alyssa Healy has continued her impressive form in the Women’s Big Bash League, smashing an unbeaten 112 off just 69 balls to hand the Sydney Sixers their seventh win of the season and temporarily, top spot, against the Adelaide Sixers on Friday. Related: Alyssa Healy guides Sixers to a WBBL Renegades thumpingContinue reading...
  
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• The Boxing Day Test match between Australia and India – in pictures

  28-12-2018 02:40
  Day one and two of the Third Test match in the series between Australia and India at Melbourne Cricket Ground Continue reading...
  
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• Australia v India: Boxing Day Test, day three - live!

  28-12-2018 01:13
  Live updates from day three of the third Test at the MCGJoin the conversation: via email or tweet @GeoffLemonSport 12.11am GMT Harris holes out! Pretty weak attempt at the pull shot. Bumrah has sconed him a couple of times in the series, and this time as Bumrah drops short Harris goes for the flap. Looked awkward, feet weren’t moving well, he hauled at it rather than pulling it. A chiropractor’s dream. A ball or two earlier, Bumrah had moved Ishant around a bit at fine leg. The ball
  
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