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• Alyssa Healy and Pat Cummins land major Australian cricket honours

  11-02-2019 23:01 via theguardian.com
  Healy sweeps three women’s awardsNathan Lyon named Test player of the yearPat Cummins has capped the finest year of his career by winning the Allan Border medal, edging out Nathan Lyon to be named Australia’s leading men’s cricketer, while Alyssa Healy comfortably won the Belinda Clark award as the country’s top women’s player ahead of Megan Schutt and Ashleigh Gardiner.Paceman Cummins polled 156 votes to surpass Test player of the year Lyon (150) and limited-overs
  
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• England’s top three have mixed fortunes in making Ashes case | Ali Martin

  11-02-2019 22:48 via theguardian.com
  Rory Burns, Keaton Jennings and Joe Denly fail to stake claim on a more traditional day of Test cricketAfter the giddying excitement of the second day in St Lucia, one that produced 16 wickets and was headlined by an electric burst of genuine fast bowling from Mark Wood, came a slightly less helter-skelter third.The DJ in the party stand tried to rouse the audience with an assortment of thorax-thumping tunes. But for much of the action this felt out of kilter, with Test cricket’s more natu
  
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• Joe Root leads the way as England batsmen finally come to the party

  11-02-2019 22:45 via theguardian.com
  • England 277 & 325-4; West Indies 154
  • Joe Root 111*, Joe Denly 69This was how it was supposed to be throughout the series, with the prime of English batsmanship clinically consolidating and then tormenting the West Indies bowlers. Yet as the tourists built up a formidable lead in the afternoon sunshine this all seemed a very minor consolation.Obviously this little glut of runs was better than another English capitulation and it was mildly reassuring to see the captain digging in
  
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• West Indies v England: third Test, day three – as it happened

  11-02-2019 22:26 via theguardian.com
  Joe Root’s determined 111 not out and a stylish 69 from Joe Denly helped England to 325-4, a lead of 448, against a weary West Indies attack in St Lucia 9.26pm GMT Joe Root speaks! “It’s really pleasing. I’ve been working on a few things in practice, trying to line myself up a bit better. The body hasn’t quite been doing what I’ve wanted at times, which has been frustrating, but that can happen over your career and you have to evolve your game as bowlers devel
  
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• West Indies v England: third Test, day three – live!

  11-02-2019 15:36 via theguardian.com
  Live updates from the third day’s play in St LuciaThe Spin: sign up and get our free weekly cricket emailAnd feel free to email Simon or tweet @Simon_Burnton 2.36pm GMT 17th over: England 50-1 (Jennings 12, Denly 20) Roach bowls a beauty that zings past the edge of Jennings’ wafting bat, and ends the over with a spot-on yorker, well defended (just). 2.32pm GMT 16th over: England 48-1 (Jennings 9, Denly 20) Gabriel slings down a short ball to Jennings, and this no ball is called. Then
  
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• Mujeeb ur Rahman: Middlesex sign 17-year-old Afghanistan spinner

  11-02-2019 13:59 via bbc.co.uk
  Middlesex sign 17-year-old Afghanistan spinner Mujeeb ur Rahman for the entirety of the 2019 Twenty20 Blast campaign.
  
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• Mark Wood bowls up a storm to rock West Indies with maiden five-for | Ali Martin

  11-02-2019 00:04 via theguardian.com
  England paceman stays true to his goals despite several left ankle operations and proves himself a bowler of shock and aweMark Wood, from childhood days spent charging in from the conifers at the back of his garden, trying to clonk his father, Derek, on the head, through to the present, has only ever wanted to bowl as fast as he possibly can and play Test cricket for England.A rebellious left ankle that has led to him going under the knife multiple times might have led others to veer away from o
  
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