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• Alastair Cook: England 'brave' to drop Keaton Jennings for Joe Denly

  30-01-2019 21:05 via bbc.co.uk
  Former England captain Alastair Cook says the decision to drop Keaton Jennings in favour of uncapped Joe Denly is "brave".
  
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• England search for positive reaction after all too familiar batting negatives | Vic Marks

  30-01-2019 19:54
  West Indies have the chance in Antigua to secure a first major Test series win since 2012 as Joe Root’s tourists are still striving to find their equilibriumSlap bang in the middle of the island the towering stands at each end of the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium incongruously dominate a landscape that is still composed of scrubland and featuring the odd meandering goat. The ground is no more than 10km from the capital, St John’s, but it might as well be a hundred.The locals would wand
  
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• Boyce fires Renegades to Big Bash semis with quickfire fifty

  30-01-2019 19:53
  Melbourne Renegades 7-140 (20) defeat Sydney Thunder 113 (19.1)Cameron Boyce couldn’t have picked a better time to score his maiden BBL half-century.The leg-spinner smashed the fastest 50 of this Big Bash tournament in the Melbourne Renegades’ 27-run win over the Sydney Thunder at Marvel Stadium on Wednesday night. Related: Canberra's 10-year challenge as Starc question looms over Manuka returnContinue reading...
  
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• Canberra's 10-year challenge as Starc question looms over Manuka return

  30-01-2019 19:16
  Australia’s frontline quick faces increasing media scrutiny, but advice from a former Test star, Mike Hussey, may hold the keyExactly a decade ago, inside Canberra’s colossal house on the hill, the cabinet thrashed out the final, vital elements of their equally gigantic response to the Global Financial Crisis. Days later, on the 2nd of February 2009, the $42 billion package was released to the wild, followed by one of the most bruising parliamentary debates in modern memory. Related:
  
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• Joe Denly’s England Test debut to double up as Ashes audition

  30-01-2019 16:49
  • Keaton Jennings dropped for second Test against West Indies
  • Joe Root expects recalled Stuart Broad ‘to try to prove a point’Joe Denly will on Thursday be handed his first England Test cap from the country’s greatest run-scorer, Alastair Cook, and with it a golden opportunity to book a spot for this summer’s Ashes series.The Kent right-hander makes his debut at opener at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium – a straight swap for the discarded Keaton Jennings
  
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• England axe opener Keaton Jennings for uncapped Joe Denly

  30-01-2019 16:49
  • 32-year-old Kent batsman and leg-spinner will open in Antigua• Jack Leach recalled to replace Adil Rashid for second TestEngland have dropped out-of-form opener Keaton Jennings for the second Test against the West Indies with the uncapped Joe Denly taking his place.Denly, 32, bats at No 3 for second division Kent but will open the innings in Antigua as a direct replacement for Jennings, who pays the price for a sequence of low scores and an average that has now dipped below 26. Conti
  
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