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• Mark Wood on Cricket World Cup, Liam Plunkett & Northumberland's beaches

  02-07-2019 23:38 via bbc.co.uk
  England fast bowler Mark Wood explains how an honest chat with the team psychologist helped prepare for victory over India and how he wrote a song about Liam Plunkett for the Barmy Army.
  
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• Alyssa Healy helps Australia take first blood in Women’s Ashes

  02-07-2019 22:26
  • England 177; Australia 178-8. Australia won by two wickets
  • Wicketkeeper Healy hits 66 in low-scoring openerEngland’s 14-match winning run has been a badge worn with some pride by the players; they have spent the first half of 2019 trampling all over India, Sri Lanka and West Indies. It took a mere 25 minutes to realise how little any of that mattered. With 5.1 overs gone England were reduced to 19 for four – welcome to the Ashes.Incredibly, despite that start, England c
  
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• Women's Ashes 2019: Australia take series lead with victory in first ODI

  02-07-2019 22:08 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch all the England wickets as Australia take the lead in the multi-format Women's Ashes with a two wicket victory in the first one-day international.
  
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• Australia beat England by two wickets: Women's Ashes, first ODI – as it happened

  02-07-2019 21:48
  In the opening ODI of the Ashes, Australia took the two points after edging a low-scoring ODI match littered with batting errorsListen to our podcast on the Ashes … and Steve Smith’s neck 8.48pm BST Australia did their best to lose this game – 178 should have been a doddle – but they did eventually creep over the line. Lanning and co will be very frustrated as to their performance though, particularly with the bat, and there will be a lot to work on before the second ODI
  
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• Highlights: India confirm last-four spot and eliminate spirited Bangladesh

  02-07-2019 21:37 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch match highlights as India's Rohit Sharma & KL Rahul hit the highest opening partnership of the tournament to set up a relatively comfortable win which eliminates Bangladesh.
  
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• County cricket: Jimmy Anderson injured, Yorkshire v Surrey and more – as it happened

  02-07-2019 20:57
  County Championship updates from around the groundsAnd you can post BTL, email Tanya or tweet @tjaldred 7.55pm BST A great day’s cricket round the grounds. Marnus Labuschagne wins the race to a thousand Championship runs, with double-centurion Dom Sibley close on his tail; another dream day in a dream match for Brett D’Oliveria; a super win for Northants at Hove - chapeau Ben Sanderson - doughty runs for Dawid Malan and lots to look forward to at Scarborough and Taunton. Worrying tim
  
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• Rohit Sharma leads India into semi-finals and sends Bangladesh out

  02-07-2019 20:24
  • India 314-9; Bangladesh 286. India won by 28 runs
  • Sharma scores his fourth century of this World CupTwo days after a morale-denting defeat by England, India restored order to their World Cup campaign with victory against Bangladesh at the same venue to secure a place in the semi-finals with a group match to spare.Rohit Sharma’s fourth century of the tournament, a feat that makes him the leading runscorer with 544, proved the key contribution as India set their opponents 315 t
  
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• Cricket World Cup: Rohit survives an early scare to rack up a match-winning 104 for India

  02-07-2019 19:54 via bbc.co.uk
  Tournament top run scorer Rohit Sharma survives an early dropped catch and goes on to put Bangladesh to the sword with a match-winning 104 for India at Edgbaston.
  
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• India beat Bangladesh by 28 runs: Cricket World Cup 2019 – as it happened

  02-07-2019 19:52
  India qualified for the semi-finals, and ended Bangladesh’s own hopes of reaching them, with victory at Edgbaston 8.43pm BSTRelated: Rohit Sharma leads India into semi-finals and sends Bangladesh out6.52pm BST And with that, I’m off. Here’s some England-related reading. Bye! Related: Eoin Morgan tells England to focus on victory for vital New Zealand game6.51pm BST Bangladesh have had an excellent World Cup, without quite getting the results to reflect their performances. It&rs
  
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• India beat Bangladesh by 28 runs: Cricket World Cup 2019 – live!

  02-07-2019 19:42
  Cricket World Cup updates from the match at EdgbastonEngland v Australia: Women’s Ashes, first ODI – live!County cricket: the action from around the grounds – live!And you can email Simon here or tweet @Simon _Burnton 6.42pm BST Here are the latest standings. Two semi-final spots remain unclaimed, with Pakistan, England and New Zealand still in the hunt. England have to beat New Zealand tomorrow, or hope that Pakistan fail to beat Bangladesh on Friday. New Zealand are through a
  
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• The Women's Ashes, a baseball invasion and Steve Smith's neck – The Spin podcast

  02-07-2019 19:17
  Barney Ronay and Charlie Baker join presenter Emma John to discuss England’s victory over India. Plus we reflect on the arrival of baseball during the World Cup and the start of the Women’s Ashes series Continue reading...
  
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• Eoin Morgan tells England to focus on victory for vital New Zealand game

  02-07-2019 19:04
  • England will clinch semi-final spot with win
  • Morgan played in limp defeat to New Zealand in 2015Eoin Morgan has told his England players to stay in the moment and forget the consequences of a must-win game against the team that launched their one-day revolution four years ago.Defeat to New Zealand in Wednesday’s final World Cup group game would leave England worrying about the result of Bangladesh versus Pakistan at Lord’s on Friday. Related: England lift Cricket World
  
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• India set Bangladesh 315 to win: Cricket World Cup 2019 – live!

  02-07-2019 17:50
  Cricket World Cup updates from the match at EdgbastonEngland v Australia: Women’s Ashes, first ODI – live!County cricket: the action from around the grounds – live!And you can email Simon here or tweet @Simon _Burnton 4.50pm BST 28th over: Bangladesh 147-3 (Shakib 50, Das 14) I’m not sure how umpires regularly spot tiny nicks, accurately predict the ball’s path, spot when a ball pitches outside the line of leg stump even when nobody else can, yet when there’s
  
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• Australia chasing 178 to beat England: Women's Ashes, first ODI – live!

  02-07-2019 17:49
  Follow all the action from Leicester, 2pm BST startAshes eclipses World Cup at pinnacle of women’s cricketAnd you can email Geoff or tweet @GeoffLemonSport4.44pm BST The first Ashes ODI and the first two points are there on a plate for Australia, unless England can produce one hell of a bowling and fielding performance. It’s not like Australia were unplayable today. Schutt swung the ball a lot but could have been dealt with more pragmatically. Perry was rather given her early wickets
  
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• England face tense occasion to reach Cricket World Cup semi-finals | Vic Marks

  02-07-2019 15:42
  New Zealand offers a contrasting challenge to India but the stakes are just as high with a win enough to seal progressionThis is the most important white-ball cricket match for England since … well, last Sunday. Beat New Zealand in Chester-le-Street on Wednesday and Eoin Morgan’s side has secured a semi‑final berth, which was regarded as the minimum requirement for England at the outset. Lose and they can be overtaken in the table. A tie would probably be enough – if tha
  
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• County cricket: Jimmy Anderson injured, Yorkshire v Surrey and more – live!

  02-07-2019 14:01
  County Championship updates from around the groundsAnd you can post BTL, email Tanya or tweet @tjaldred 1.00pm BST Yorkshire and Somerset’s opening partnerships have both passed a hundred this morning undisturbed. Mull over that with your lunch, hot or cold. And consider a quick ten minute appointment with the OBO where Rishabh Pant and Virat Kohli are making batting look the easiest thing in the world.Related: Bangladesh v India: Cricket World Cup 2019 – live!12.52pm BST Rhodes out
  
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• The Spin | Time for England’s poor post-1992 Cricket World Cup record to improve

  02-07-2019 12:50
  Since final defeat to Pakistan 27 years ago, England have given fans and writers little but frustration at the one-day showpieceThere was a time, just a few days ago, when it felt like this week’s Spin was destined to be a wake, a coming-to-terms with another unexpectedly premature World Cup departure for an England team completely and thrillingly restyled since their last such failure, but still unable to escape the same miserable fate. Sunday’s victory over India has at the very le
  
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• England star Sarah Taylor hoping Australia experience helps as Women’s Ashes begin

  02-07-2019 12:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  ENGLAND star Sarah Taylor spent a winter playing men’s grade cricket in Australia but now focus turns to the Women’s Ashes.
  
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• Women's Ashes format explained: How England vs Australia series will be decided

  02-07-2019 11:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  ENGLAND and Australia meet again this summer as the Women’s Ashes takes place across England.
  
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• Cricket World Cup table LIVE: Latest standings and results as Sri Lanka beat West Indies

  02-07-2019 11:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  CRICKET WORLD CUP 2019 action continues with the race to reach the final four. See how the Cricket World Cup table is shaping up with the latest results and fixtures.
  
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• Bangladesh v India: Cricket World Cup 2019 – live!

  02-07-2019 10:30
  Cricket World Cup updates from the match at EdgbastonLatest standings: check out the Cricket World Cup tableAnd you can email Daniel here or tweet @DanielHarris9.00am BST The phrase “bad World Cup” is an oxymoron up there with “cool beard”, “orderly Brexit” and “young love”, but for a while, when it was raining and predictable, we were on the cusp. Now, though, as we complete the penultimate round of matches, we stand on the cusp of a jazzer for th
  
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• New Zealand’s struggling batsmen have to up their game against England | Liam Napier

  02-07-2019 10:05
  Kane Williamson’s side are faltering as they move to Durham to face the World Cup hosts in their final group matchNew Zealand, six matches into their World Cup campaign, were undefeated. A washout with India may have helped their cause somewhat but a coveted semi‑final place seemed assured. How quickly prospects have dimmed. Successive defeats by Pakistan and Australia leave New Zealand facing what could prove a sudden-death showdown with England on Wednesday.Grasp your Pimm’s
  
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• Boring and lifeless: Cricket NSW slams plans for drop-in pitch at the SCG

  02-07-2019 02:58
  SCG Trust is considering a drop-in pitch at the behest of the AFLCricket NSW is strongly opposed to the changeCricket NSW is opposing moves to use drop-in pitches at the SCG, fearing it will result in boring cricket which will turn off spectators.The Sydney Cricket Ground Trust, at the behest of the AFL, has formed a committee to consider drop-in pitches at the venue which has hosted Test cricket since 1882. “The move to a drop-in wicket with lifeless uniformity will create the risk of bor
  
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