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• Pakistan's Cricket World Cup revival has uncanny echoes of 1992 triumph

  29-06-2019 22:34 via bbc.co.uk
  Halfway through the World Cup, Pakistan were ninth after a heavy defeat by India. Four matches later, they occupy a semi-final spot.
  
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• Highlights: Australia thrash New Zealand

  29-06-2019 22:34 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch highlights as Australia throw New Zealand's bid to reach the World Cup semi-finals off course as they beat their old rivals by 86 runs.
  
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• Mitchell Starc sinks New Zealand after Usman Khawaja lifts Australia

  29-06-2019 22:26 via theguardian.com
  • Australia 243-9; New Zealand 157. Australia win by 86 runs
  • Trent Boult’s hat-trick in vain as Starc takes 5-26Be afraid, England and Wales 2019. The Aussies are coming. Or rather, the Aussies are still coming, after an 86-run defeat of a New Zealand team who seemed consumed by the occasion at Lord’s.At times in the Black Caps’ attempts to chase 243 this felt a bit like a Sunday morning junior age group game. Steve Smith sent down some weird, wonky all-sorts. Wicke
  
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• Australia beat New Zealand by 86 runs: Cricket World Cup 2019 – as it happened

  29-06-2019 22:23 via theguardian.com
  Australia ensured they finished above the Black Caps with victory at Lord’s with Mitchell Starc and Usman Khawaja their key men 9.23pm BST “The wickets haven’t been what a lot of people thought,” says Kane Williamson. “They’re perhaps a bit tired.” They have been strange pitches. Virat Kohli said today that everyone was expecting England to dominate in their own conditions. But they haven’t been English conditions at all: neither the green seamers
  
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• Kate Cross: ‘The Ashes are more special because the Australians are my friends’

  29-06-2019 22:00 via theguardian.com
  Seamer says playing Big Bash cricket helped her get back in England teamKate Cross owes something of a debt to Australia. On Tuesday, as the Women’s Ashes begins at Leicester, the England seamer is set to go head to head against them, seeking to destroy their batting lineup while knowing that without playing alongside them in the Women’s Big Bash League last winter, she might never have been selected for this series at all.Cross, who between July 2016 and July 2018 did not feature in
  
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• Highlights: Pakistan beat Afghanistan in Cricket World Cup thriller at Headingley

  29-06-2019 20:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch match highlights as Pakistan survive a scare to beat Afghanistan by three wickets with two balls remaining in a thriller at Headingley.
  
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• England captain Eoin Morgan reveals Jason Roy is preparing to face India - video

  29-06-2019 20:13 via theguardian.com
  Jason Roy is preparing to face India on Sunday, England captain Eoin Morgan revealed. Morgan was speaking ahead of their must-win World Cup match against India at Edgbaston, Birmingham Continue reading...
  
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• Pakistan beat Afghanistan by three wickets in thrilling match: Cricket World Cup – as it happened

  29-06-2019 19:31 via theguardian.com
  Imad Wasim held his nerve to guide Pakistan to a vital victory at Headingley, which moved them above England into fourth place 6.31pm BSTRelated: Pakistan’s Imad Wasim holds nerve to see of Afghanistan in thriller6.20pm BSTRelated: England’s Eoin Morgan ready for ‘short-term’ risks with Roy and Archer6.17pm BST It’s worth repeating: a week ago, Pakistan were ninth in the table. Now they are fourth, and they’ll all be Indian fans tomorrow. We should not forget
  
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• Pakistan’s Imad Wasim holds nerve to see off Afghanistan in thriller

  29-06-2019 19:26 via theguardian.com
  • Afghanistan 227-9; Pakistan 230-7
  • Pakistan win with two balls to spare from 156-6The edgiest of matches at Headingley was marred by crowd disturbances as Pakistan crept over the line by three wickets with two balls to spare to keep their World Cup dreams alive.With a handful of overs to go, tension that had been building between pockets of spectators all day – with fights outside the gate, and disruptive fans being bundled out of the ground – bubbled over with a plastic
  
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• England’s Eoin Morgan ready for ‘short-term’ risks with Roy and Archer

  29-06-2019 19:09 via theguardian.com
  • Captain keen for Jason Roy and Jofra Archer to face India
  • ‘If it’s long-term [risk], then no. If it’s short-term, then yes’Eoin Morgan is prepared to risk tournament-ending injuries to Jason Roy and Jofra Archer as England strive to keep their World Cup dream alive against India on Sunday.The must-win scenario for Morgan’s men dictates a mend-and-make-do approach to their fitness doubts. Roy, who tore a hamstring against West Indies two weeks ago, retu
  
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• Cricket World Cup: Trent Boult stuns Australia with final-over hat-trick

  29-06-2019 18:28 via bbc.co.uk
  New Zealand fast bowler Trent Boult takes a hat-trick in the final over of Australia's innings in their World Cup match at Lord's.
  
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• New Zealand chase 244 to beat Australia: Cricket World Cup 2019 – live!

  29-06-2019 18:18 via theguardian.com
  Cricket World Cup updates from the match at Lord’sPakistan v Afghanistan: Cricket World Cup – live!Any thoughts? Email or tweet @TimdeLisle 5.18pm BST Hello everyone, thanks Geoff and commiserations on the hat-trick – every live-blogger’s nightmare. So New Zealand have shown the world how to deal with Australia’s opening batsmen. Can they do the same with the opening bowlers? That’s where this game is likely to be won and lost. New Zealand have so much time, t
  
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• India captain Virat Kohli 'surprised' by England's World Cup struggles – video

  29-06-2019 16:26 via theguardian.com
  India captain Virat Kohli says he is surprised at England’s struggles at the Cricket World Cup. Tournament hosts England face India on Sunday and New Zealand on Wednesday and must win both of those games to guarantee a place in the semi-finals. If they slip up, Pakistan, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka could qualify at their expense. Continue reading...
  
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• England must gamble on Jason Roy to keep World Cup alive and beat India

  29-06-2019 16:07 via theguardian.com
  Three defeats mean Eoin Morgan’s side have to win and to do so they need to be bold against India’s brilliant bowlersEngland’s most important white-ball cricket match for four years has come a little earlier than expected. The anticipation was that it would take place at Old Trafford or Edgbaston next week in one of the semi-finals. But three losses, especially the wanton one to Sri Lanka, during the qualification process have meant the crunch game has arrived a week ahead of s
  
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• Cricket World Cup: 'Are you serious?' - Martin Guptill takes fantastic catch to remove Steve Smith

  29-06-2019 15:42 via bbc.co.uk
  Martin Guptill takes a "fantastic" catch to send Steve Smith packing in the World Cup match between New Zealand and Australia at Lord's.
  
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• New Zealand v Australia: Cricket World Cup 2019 – live!

  29-06-2019 15:24 via theguardian.com
  Cricket World Cup updates from the match at Lord’sPakistan v Afghanistan: Cricket World Cup – live!Any thoughts? Email or tweet @GeoffLemonSport 2.23pm BST What a catch! Third time lucky for Guptill. He’s dropped a tough one, a straightforward one, and now he snares a worldly one. Ferguson’s pace does for Smith, who is trying to hook a short ball but got it high on the splice. It goes flat rather than up, but Guptill at backward square leg takes off to his left and takes
  
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• Pakistan chasing 228 to beat Afghanistan: Cricket World Cup – live!

  29-06-2019 15:20 via theguardian.com
  Cricket World Cup updates from the match at HeadingleyNew Zealand v Australia: Cricket World Cup – live!And you can email Rob here 2.20pm BST Thanks Tom, hello everyone. If a week is a long time in politics, then it’s an absolute age in Pakistan cricket. Seven days ago they were ninth in the World Cup table, with only Afghanistan below them. Now they are 228 runs away from moving into the magical fourth spot, the one that comes with a semi-final place. For any other country it would
  
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• Virat Kohli says England are struggling to handle tournament pressure

  29-06-2019 14:07 via theguardian.com
  • England’s game at Edgbaston on Sunday is crucial for hosts
  • India captain says emotion ‘can put too much pressure on’Virat Kohli has diagnosed tournament pressure as the reason for England’s predicament, with the India captain having previously expected Eoin Morgan’s side to dominate their home World Cup. Speaking as he prepared for Sunday’s crunch group game in Edgbaston – where tickets are changing hands for four-figure sums and a strong a
  
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• Five things England must do to avoid crashing out of the World Cup | Tim de Lisle

  29-06-2019 12:59 via theguardian.com
  More imaginative selections are required, fielding must be ruthless and Joe Root given a new roleEoin Morgan is a fearless captain but quite a cautious selector. His response to a limp display against Sri Lanka was to pick an unchanged team. Liam Plunkett, the master of the middle overs, has been sidelined. Tom Curran, England’s most incisive bowler of the past year, has become the invisible man. Either of them would take more wickets than Moeen Ali and probably make more runs than James V
  
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• Pakistan v Afghanistan: Cricket World Cup 2019 – live!

  29-06-2019 12:31 via theguardian.com
  Cricket World Cup updates from the match at HeadingleyHow they stand: the latest World Cup tableAnd you can email Tom here or tweet him here 11.31am BST 14th over: Afghanistan 71-3 (Ikram 7, Afghan 10) The Sky commentary team get my slightly hungover juices flowing by chatting at length about the joys of Bradford curries. Also getting those juices flowing is Asghar Afghan who clips Imad with effortless beautiful brutality into the Western TerraceStand for SIX. Two more follow with a slightly ugl
  
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• Why we can’t stop watching Mitchell Starc’s dismissal of Ben Stokes | Geoff Lemon

  29-06-2019 08:01 via theguardian.com
  The Australian’s yorker against England at the World Cup was a rare blend of beauty, mechanics and context – a work of artSome moments in cricket you can watch forever. A delivery, a catch, a shot. Sport is mostly about context and story and character, the things that put an action in its place. But some rare actions transcend context. When Mitchell Starc bowled Ben Stokes in a World Cup match at Lord’s, the physical fact of it was all that mattered. You can treat that moment a
  
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