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• West Indies roll back years to make England look like Calypso Cricketers | Andy Bull

  05-02-2019 21:00
  The hosts have schooled England in the disciplines of Test cricket and made the tourists look like the slapdash outfit West Indies were once so wrongly caricatured asLong before he won the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, John Agard used to dream he would be a cricket commentator. On Desert Island Discs he told Kirsty Young that when he was growing up in Georgetown he would practise John Arlott’s best lines “the way a present day teenager might stand in front of the mirror and pr
  
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• Joe Denly out to stake Ashes claim by helping England salvage Test pride

  05-02-2019 19:38
  • Denly determined to prove he is not a makeshift opener
  • England smarting after losing both Tests against West IndiesJoe Denly arrives in St Lucia determined to prove he is not simply a stopgap Test opener and instead book a place in this summer’s Ashes series.The third Test against West Indies at the Darren Sammy Stadium from Saturday is not just a chance for Joe Root side to salvage some pride and avoid a series whitewash; for individuals such as Denly there is more at stake.
  
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• BPL live stream: How to watch Dhaka Dynamites vs Rangpur Riders in Qualifier 2

  05-02-2019 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  BPL live stream coverage of Dhaka Dynamites vs Rangpur Riders is available around the world. Express Sport has all the details on how to watch Qualifier 2 online.
  
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• England in West Indies: Jason Holder ban 'crippling', says Windies president

  05-02-2019 16:19 via bbc.co.uk
  Cricket West Indies president Dave Cameron hits out at the "crippling decision" to ban Jason Holder from the third Test.
  
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• The Spin | ‘I think cricket still means something to the global Caribbean community’

  05-02-2019 14:02
  A snapshot of a complicated picture to see how West Indies’ win over England resonates in communities far further afieldIt is quiet on Monday morning on Hulme High Street, south Manchester. It is not quite lunchtime and only a few shoppers are braving the February chill, though a blue sky threatens to raise spirits. The Spin is walking about in an anorak, trying to discover if West Indies’ thrilling win over England on the weekend meant anything to the British African-Caribbean commu
  
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• Virat Kohli: India legend reveals the ONE main area Kohli can improve after stunning 2018

  05-02-2019 11:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  VIRAT KOHLI has been branded phenomenal, special and compared to Sir Viv Richards by former Indian star Ravi Shastri - but also told he can still improve as a captain.
  
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• Sarfaraz keeps Pakistan captaincy despite racism ban

  05-02-2019 10:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Sarfaraz Ahmed will stay on as Pakistan captain for the World Cup despite serving a ban for making a racist remark, the PCB says.
  
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• England and Australia in trouble but whose distress is the more acute? | Matthew Engel

  05-02-2019 10:45
  With England looking pallid and Australia showing only faint signs of recovery, this summer’s Ashes could be thrillingly closeThe traditional role of Poms in Australia is to accept graciously the humorous insults directed at the England cricket team, responding politely without resort to obvious cliches, particularly those involving convicts.For all kinds of reasons, it is a little different this time. For a start, British visitors are now greeted with a kind of affectionate pity mixed wit
  
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• Brathwaite to captain West Indies in final Test

  05-02-2019 00:17 via bbc.co.uk
  West Indies confirm Kraigg Brathwaite will captain the side in the absence of Jason Holder in the third Test against England.
  
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