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• Steve Smith hits 76 as David Warner struggles on return to England

  22-05-2019 21:21
  • Pair return in World Cup warm-up game against West Indies
  • Australia win by seven wicketsSteve Smith marked his return to English soil with a typically assured half century – but there were contrasting fortunes for his Australia teammates David Warner and Usman Khawaja.Smith and Warner are back on the international scene after one‑year bans for their part in the ball-tampering scandal, and they made their comebacks on these shores in the first of the summer’s World
  
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• County Championship: Somerset beat Warks, Lancs see off Worcs

  22-05-2019 20:11
  Somerset secure victory by 49 runs over WarkwickshireLancashire recover from losing quick wickets to defeat Worcestershire 7.11pm BST Nails were chomped at Taunton as Warwickshire put up an unexpectedly good fight. Starting the day needing 136 with only four wickets in hand, they got to within 49 runs before Oliver Hannon-Dalby was caught for a dogged 13. Sam Hain, a broom-handle up the batting, finished 92 not out; Lewis Gregory the pick of the bowlers with four for 48. Leaders Somerset have th
  
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• Joe Root happy to leave power-hitting to others during World Cup

  22-05-2019 19:42
  • England’s No 3 intends to rein in aggressive approach• World Cup to be first 50-over tournament with away shirtsJoe Root has revisited his responsibilities as England’s one-day anchor before the World Cup after admitting he got slightly carried away during the recent ODI series victory against Pakistan.There is little doubt the right‑hander has been central to the four-year revival under Eoin Morgan’s captaincy, chiefly operating as an orthodox No 3 who provid
  
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• Only cricket makes Afghanistan smile, says bowler Hassan

  22-05-2019 18:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Afghanistan bowler Hamid Hassan says cricket is the "only thing that will bring a smile" to his war-torn country.
  
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• Cricket World Cup: Liam Plunkett says England know we can get better

  22-05-2019 18:05 via bbc.co.uk
  Liam Plunkett says the England players "know that they can get better" heading into a home Cricket World Cup.
  
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• 'She prepared us for life after her' - Strauss pays tribute to late wife

  22-05-2019 17:50 via bbc.co.uk
  Former England director of cricket Andrew Strauss says it has been a "long five months" since his wife Ruth died from a rare lung cancer in December.
  
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• County Championship: Lancashire beat Worcestershire by six wickets

  22-05-2019 16:17 via bbc.co.uk
  Lancashire hold their nerve to beat Division Two promotion rivals Worcestershire by six wickets at Old Trafford.
  
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• County Championship: Somerset beat Warks, Lancs v Worcs and more – live!

  22-05-2019 15:40
  Regular updates from around the county groundsYou can email Tanya here, tweet her here or post BTLDay two: how Tuesday’s action unfoldedAli Martin’s England World Cup team guide 2.40pm BST Remember Sam Curran? @CurranSM is off the mark! pic.twitter.com/U4ke57aby1 2.38pm BST And all is quiet round the grounds. Batting not much of a problem. All eyes then turn to The County Ground, where Glamorgan need another 132.2.23pm BST Hmmmm, Warwickshire contemplating opening the bank vault agai
  
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• Willey 'will tear it up for Yorkshire' after England omission

  22-05-2019 14:24 via bbc.co.uk
  Yorkshire's Tim Bresnan backs David Willey to "tear it up" for the county after being left out of England's World Cup squad.
  
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• County Championship: Somerset complete 49-run win over Warwickshire at Taunton

  22-05-2019 14:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Division One leaders Somerset overcome Warwickshire's lower-order resistance to beat the Bears by 49 runs at Taunton.
  
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• The Spin | When Lance Klusener set the standard for cricketing all-rounders

  22-05-2019 13:30
  The 1999 World Cup ended in tears for Klusener and South Africa but his work with bat and ball was still astonishingFor years, cricket was a game of specialists. You were expected to be good at what you were good at, and that was it. In the last couple of decades that’s all changed, and if you’re not competent in at least two disciplines then you won’t last long.Even now, though, nobody expects you to dominate with both bat and ball. But 20 years ago, in the last World Cup to b
  
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• County Championship: Somerset v Warks, Lancs v Worcs and more – live!

  22-05-2019 12:57
  Regular updates from around the county groundsYou can email Tanya here, tweet her here or post BTLDay two: how Tuesday’s action unfoldedAli Martin’s England World Cup team guide 11.57am BST Northants in excelsis, and the Warwickshire target falls below 10082.4 | Wonderfully pulled away for four by @NathanBuck17, takes us past the follow-on mark.
  Northamptonshire 275/8. pic.twitter.com/vLKiCYHvS2 11.51am BST Good news for Lancashire - Wayne Parnell won’t bowl today, a “nig
  
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• England World Cup guide: gameplan, key player and prediction

  22-05-2019 09:45
  The hosts are, whisper it, among the favourites to lift the Cricket World Cup for the first time after a remarkable transformation but the burden of pressure is enormousIt has been a transformation akin to one of those TV architecture shows, where some utter carbuncle of a 1950s bungalow is dramatically turned into a modern family home that suddenly sits as the envy of the entire street. Related: Bangladesh World Cup guide: gameplan, key player and prediction England Related: England’s Cri
  
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• England Cricket World Cup guide: gameplan, key player and prediction

  22-05-2019 09:45
  The hosts are, whisper it, among the favourites to lift the Cricket World Cup for the first time after a remarkable transformation but the burden of pressure is enormousIt has been a transformation akin to one of those TV architecture shows, where some utter carbuncle of a 1950s bungalow is dramatically turned into a modern family home that suddenly sits as the envy of the entire street. Related: Bangladesh World Cup guide: gameplan, key player and prediction England Related: England’s Cri
  
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