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• Joe Root: ‘We came here to win but we have been outplayed, outperformed’

  02-02-2019 23:17
  • England’s captain says lessons must be learned from series loss
  • ‘To find ourselves out of it with a game to go is hard to take‘As Jason Holder led his victorious West Indies players on a lap of honour around the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, an ashen-faced Joe Root blamed England’s series defeat on the failure of his batsmen to copy the home side.Speaking after going 2-0 down with one to play in St Lucia, the England captain rejected suggestions his batsmen h
  
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• Alzarri Joseph stands tall for West Indies despite death of his mother

  02-02-2019 22:35
  The young fast bowler put in a remarkable show on a day of the darkest personal news imaginableFour golf buggies buzzed around the boundary rope during lunch on a memorable third day in Antigua, their passengers waving to all in the ground and beaming with well-earned smiles.Last week in Barbados a similar motorcade celebrated a host of cricket legends from the island, including Sir Garfield Sobers, but here it was the relatively lesser-known quartet of Elvira Bell, Christal Clashing, Kevinia Fr
  
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• Dismal England fall to series defeat in West Indies

  02-02-2019 22:29 via bbc.co.uk
  England collapse in dismal fashion yet again to lose the second Test by 10 wickets as West Indies seal the series with a match to spare.
  
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• West Indies beat England by 10 wickets to win series - as it happened

  02-02-2019 22:09
  Kemar Roach and Jason Holder get four wickets each in second inningsWest Indies scoring winning runs in 13 ballsReport: Hapless England lost series in West Indies 9.09pm GMT Here is the report:Related: West Indies thrash hapless England by 10 wickets to seal series victory8.49pm GMT England are yet to emerge from the dressing-room. How do you teach application? Answers on the back of an envelope to NW8. The difficulty for England is that the entire batting line-up has the same strengths, the sam
  
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• West Indies thrash hapless England by 10 wickets to seal series victory

  02-02-2019 22:05
  • Second Test day 3: England 187 & 132; West Indies 306 & 17-0
  • West Indies win by 10 wickets to take 2-0 series leadEngland have never won a Test in Antigua and their 10th attempt to do so ended rapidly and ignominiously. They were defeated inside three days by 10 wickets. Once again Joe Root’s tourists have been thoroughly outplayed from start to finish. Here was a pale imitation of the 80s and 90s except for the fact that the accepted wisdom before the series was that
  
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• PCA warns The Hundred could create ‘super-counties’ in domestic cricket

  02-02-2019 16:04
  • Professional Cricketers’ Association issues warning
  • ‘Run the risk of game going towards eight super-counties’The Professional Cricketers’ Association has warned that The Hundred could lead to the creation of super-counties and compromise the integrity of domestic cricket if the eight host venues are allowed to transfer existing coaching set-ups over to their new teams.The players’ union and the England and Wales Cricket Board had wanted to ensure diffe
  
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• West Indies v England: second Test, day three – live!

  02-02-2019 15:46
  Over-by-over updates on the action at the Sir Vivian Richards StadiumBroad earns just reward but England sleepwalk towards oblivionAny thoughts? You can email Nick | tweet @NickMiller79 2.46pm GMT 121st over: West Indies 287-7 (Bravo 40, Roach 5) Roach jabs at one outside off and a very thick edge zoots wide of the diving Burns at fourth slip, earning himself (?) a boundary.2.42pm GMT 120th over: West Indies 282-7 (Bravo 39, Roach 1) You have to admire Kemar Roach’s moxy: he swings absolut
  
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• Kurtis Patterson notches maiden Test century as Australia drive home advantage

  02-02-2019 08:30
  Australia 534-5 dec; Sri Lanka 123-3 (43 overs)Tourists trail by 411 runs at stumps on day twoAustralia swept through Sri Lanka’s top order in Canberra, capping a second day of dominance highlighted by Kurtis Patterson’s maiden Test century. Embattled spearhead Mitchell Starc made a late breakthrough as Sri Lanka went to stumps at Manuka Oval at 123-3 in reply to Australia’s 534-5 declared.Having gone for 11 off a wayward first over in which he hit 154km/h, Starc delivered in h
  
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• Australia v Sri Lanka: second Test, day two – as it happened

  02-02-2019 08:16
  Sri Lanka trail by 411 runs at stumps on day twoKurtis Patterson scores maiden Test century In CanberraDimuth Karunaratne taken to hospital after being struck in neck 7.32am GMT And here’s the match report: Related: Kurtis Patterson notches maiden Test century as Australia drive home advantage6.55am GMT Another day has gone Australia’s way in this one-sided series with Sri Lanka. During the morning and afternoon sessions runs continued to flow as they did on day one. Joe Burns reache
  
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• England’s Stuart Broad feels ‘lost’ after day of frustration in the field

  02-02-2019 00:16
  • England bowlers beat bat 103 times, four catches dropped
  • Broad says poor catching has dogged England for yearsStuart Broad said he felt “lost” after England failed to bowl out West Indies on day two in Antigua, having being informed by the team’s analyst that they had beaten the bat some 103 times over the course of the 90 overs.Four catches went down as Jason Holder’s side tightened their grip on the second Test and indeed a series they lead 1-0 with Broad
  
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