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• Avishka Fernando hits high notes and Sri Lanka hold nerve against West Indies

  01-07-2019 21:33
  • Sri Lanka 338-6; West Indies 315-9 (Sri Lanka win by 23 runs)
  • Nicholas Pooran’s 118 in vain as West Indies come up just shortNicholas Pooran waded in at the Riverside where MS Dhoni dared not tread at Edgbaston on Sunday, turning a game on its head with a barnstoming 118 that nearly dragged West Indies from a performance of limping ineptitude to remarkable victory.Coming in at 71 for three, Pooran had marshalled a cardboard batting display into respectability and then 3D-fant
  
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• County cricket: Stoneman stars for Surrey as Essex pile pressure on Notts

  01-07-2019 20:21
  Surrey batsman Mark Stoneman scores century for Surrey at Durham while Somerset struggled to chase down Hampshire’s first innings total of 4087.21pm BST Mark Stoneman was so near yet so far from cementing his place at the top of England’s Test order through late 2017 and early 2018, scoring five fifties in eleven matches. He just could not convert starts and was left out shortly after the 4-0 Ashes defeat Down Under at the start of last year.Since then, the Surrey man has rarely look
  
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• County cricket: Stoneman stars and Essex pile pressure on Notts – as it happened

  01-07-2019 20:21
  Surrey batsman Mark Stoneman scores century for Surrey at Durham while Somerset struggled to chase down Hampshire’s first innings total of 4087.21pm BST Mark Stoneman was so near yet so far from cementing his place at the top of England’s Test order through late 2017 and early 2018, scoring five fifties in eleven matches. He just could not convert starts and was left out shortly after the 4-0 Ashes defeat Down Under at the start of last year.Since then, the Surrey man has rarely look
  
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• Chris Woakes and Liam Plunkett delivered at right time for England

  01-07-2019 20:14
  Most of the plaudits after the win over India went to batsmen but the dependable duo weighed in with crucial wicketsIt is a case of one down, one to go in England’s pair of quasi-World Cup quarter-finals. Having restored confidence with a muscle-flexing victory against India, Eoin Morgan’s side meet New Zealand in Chester-le-street on Wednesday looking to cement their place in the final four.There is little question that the centurion Jonny Bairstow and Jason Roy combining for a 160-
  
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• Sri Lanka beat West Indies by 23 runs: Cricket World Cup 2019 – as it happened

  01-07-2019 20:13
  West Indies’ run chase fell flat once Nicholas Pooran was bowled out for 118 by Angelo Mathews 7.13pm BST That’s it for me. Thanks for your company, as always. Through the OBO, I think we have successfully solved the sub fielder issue. An afternoon well spent, I say. And a job well done by Sri Lanka, who really did hold their nerve through a thrilling final stanza. Check out the updated standings below. Six teams remain in contention, with India vs Bangladesh at Birmingham, coming up
  
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• England v Australia eclipses World Cup at pinnacle of women’s cricket

  01-07-2019 19:00
  • Ashes series consists of three T20s, three ODIs and one Test
  • Australia begin their defence in first ODI at Leicester on TuesdayThe last time England women won the Ashes was in 2014: Charlotte Edwards was still the captain, neither side was professional and the majority of the series was not even televised. In the five years since then the women’s cricket landscape has fundamentally shifted but one thing has remained a constant: beating Australia is a formidable challenge.That
  
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• West Indies chasing 339 to beat Sri Lanka: Cricket World Cup 2019 – live!

  01-07-2019 16:59
  Cricket World Cup updates from the Riverside in DurhamCounty cricket – live! Follow all the action around the groundsAnd feel free to email Adam or drop him a tweet3.59pm BST 12th over: West Indies 50-2 (Gayle 19, Hetmyer 17) At last, a boundary for Gayle. Rajitha is on for Dhananjaya with his right arm seam and Gayle is quickly into him, up and over the top of cover for four. The West Indies 50 is raised later in the over, Hetmyer picking out the sweeper at point off the back foot.
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• County cricket: Yorkshire v Surrey, Somerset v Hampshire and more – live!

  01-07-2019 14:28
  County Championship updates from around the grounds
  Sri Lanka v West Indies: Cricket World Cup 2019 – live!And you can get in touch BTL or tweet @tykestravels 1.28pm BST Kent 448-4 v Warwickshire at Canterbury – Daniel Bell-Drummond has ploughed on to 154 not out against the depleted Bears, who looked so good at York a fortnight ago before losing to Surrey last week.12.48pm BST Keshav Maharaj, Yorkshire’s new short-term overseas, is into the attack as Surrey advance to 139-2. M
  
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• Sri Lanka v West Indies: Cricket World Cup 2019 – live!

  01-07-2019 14:27
  Cricket World Cup updates from the Riverside in DurhamCounty cricket – live! Follow all the action around the groundsAnd feel free to email [email protected] 1.27pm BST 38th over: Sri Lanka 235-3 (Fernando 73, Mathews 15) Mathews slaps Holder through extra cover for four, a cracking shot, before Fernando picks a slower ball and swings it over mid-off for two. Sri Lanka are cruising towards their highest score of the competition, which was 247 against Australia. 1.23pm BST 37th over
  
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• Cricket World Cup: England's Jason Roy on the art of opening the batting

  01-07-2019 07:25 via bbc.co.uk
  Batsman Jason Roy explains what it's like to open the batting in a one-day international for England, how he prepares and how his partnership with Jonny Bairstow works.
  
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• Familiar foes Australia and England prepare to do battle for Women's Ashes

  01-07-2019 02:35
  England will enter the Women’s Ashes hungry for a win after a victory drought over their Australian counterparts for the past four yearsAs England prepares to welcome Australia for the Women’s Ashes of 2019, there’s a powerful sense of déjà vu. These teams play each other a lot. They’re stable in personnel. Half of the opponents spend their respective off-seasons as domestic teammates. They know each other back to front. Predictability, though, doesn’t
  
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• Jason Roy gives England a much needed adrenaline shot as India are well beaten

  01-07-2019 01:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  WITH their tournament on the line and India’s fans turning Edgbaston into a mini Mumbai, England could so easily have collapsed in on themselves.
  
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• Kevin Pietersen makes England Cricket World Cup prediction after huge India win

  01-07-2019 01:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  ENGLAND beat India in the Cricket World Cup by 31 runs after a Jonny Bairstow masterclass, and now Kevin Pietersen has made his prediction on who will win the trophy.
  
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