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• County Championship: Cook guides Essex past big-spending Notts – as it happened

  16-05-2019 20:38
  Alastair Cook finished off Simon Harmer’s good work to make it 10 games without a win for Nottinghamshire while a thriller is developing at Taunton 9.04pm BST Essex won their first championship game of the season, beating big-spenders Nottinghamshire by eight wickets on a capricious Chelmsford pitch. Set 105 to win after Simon Harmer had taken two early-morning wickets to add to the previous night’s haul (finishing with six for 60 plus a snaffled catch), Essex got off to a bad start.
  
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• England’s Mark Wood looks to make World Cup claim against Pakistan

  16-05-2019 19:00
  • Fast bowler has not played since West Indies winter tour• Wood: ‘It looks like one bowler will miss out for World Cup’Trent Bridge has been a torture chamber for bowlers in recent times but it is here, in the fourth ODI against Pakistan, that England’s Mark Wood will look to press his World Cup claims during what will be his first competitive outing of the summer.The 29-year-old quick has experienced a delayed start to the season after some bone bruising to his left
  
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• When Cheam fell for Lady Chatterley | Brief letters

  16-05-2019 18:38
  PD James | Lady Chatterley’s Lover | Lowry cricket painting | Trump’s trade warThe prescience in Alfonso Cuarón’s film Children of Men (Why we turn to dystopian TV in a crisis, Journal, 13 May) belongs to the author PD James, whose novel of the same name was the inspiration for the film. Her prescience and brilliance in the structure of the novel were all too credible and made my hair stand on end. And still do.
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• Malinga's IPL joy, safety car danger and Liverpool's kids are alright | Classic YouTube

  16-05-2019 11:40
  This week’s roundup also features FA Cup finals, falling phones and a celebrating referee1) There were some incredible scenes in India as Chennai Super Kings required two off the final ball to win the IPL. Enter Lasith Malinga and a cunning yorker. Jos Buttler would probably have just smashed it for six, mind. Lancashire’s Liam Livingstone was the victim of a stunning catch from Middlesex’s George Scott in the deep in their One-Day Cup quarter-final.2) Safety cars – it&rs
  
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