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• County cricket: Harmer’s six-wicket haul sends Essex top – as it happened

  16-07-2019 20:58
  Essex beat Warwickshire to leapfrog Somerset, who were thrashed by an innings at Headingley thanks to Steven Patterson’s Yorkshire heroics 7.58pm BST As County Championship cricket pauses till late August to make way for the Vitality Blast, a timely win for Essex against Warwickshire leaves them surveying the summer from the heady heights of the top of the table. Simon Harmer, yet again, was their lock-picker – taking six for 75, his seventh five-wicket haul of the summer. His pile r
  
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• County cricket: Yorkshire beat Somerset, Essex see off Warwickshire – live!

  16-07-2019 20:16
  Updates from around the county groundsHunt for legacy continues in wake of World Cup triumph
  You can get in touch with Tanya by email, twitter or BTL 7.16pm BST And that’s that.A draw at Southampton to go with the other results tapped up today. Only the game between Gloucestershire and Leicestershire trundles on, with two days still to go and Gloucester slightly in the lead with four wickets in hand. Congratulations to Chris Dent for a smashing century.Thanks so much everyone for your comm
  
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• Eoin Morgan has earned right to decide his future, says Chris Woakes

  16-07-2019 19:28
  • England’s winning captain would be 36 at next World Cup
  • Suggestions he may hand over to his deputy Jos ButtlerChris Woakes says England’s players will back whatever decision Eoin Morgan makes over his future as the one-day captain after he led the team to World Cup glory on Sunday.Morgan took over the leadership of England’s limited-overs sides from Alastair Cook four and a half years ago and the expectation is he will continue in his role as T20 captain until the
  
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• County Championship: Kent settle for draw with Hampshire

  16-07-2019 19:20 via bbc.co.uk
  Kent settle for a draw on the final day against Hampshire after calling time on a tricky run-chase in the final hour.
  
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• Giving youngsters a sporting chance | Letters

  16-07-2019 18:41
  Austerity is hindering youth participation, says Nick Jeffrey. Plus David Rimmer on the ECB’s dilemmaSean Ingle misses the whole pattern of the failure of the Women’s World Cup and other tournaments to be able to recharge youth participation in sport (Lionesses inspire us all but heroes alone cannot make a nation sporty, 9 July). It is clear and present following football. Now cricket raises expectations.Following big investment in events by governments, a period of austerity happens
  
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• England’s World Cup win must launch something bigger, says Andrew Strauss

  16-07-2019 18:23
  • Former director of cricket wants ECB to capitalise on euphoria
  • Strauss says success of 2005 Ashes was not built onAndrew Strauss, England’s former director of cricket, has urged the game’s powerbrokers to learn from the mistakes of the past and capitalise on England’s World Cup success, declaring: “This has to be the start of something bigger.”Strauss left his job at the England and Wales Cricket Board last October but not before laying the foundations
  
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• County Championship: Chris Rushworth impresses as Durham beat Worcestershire

  16-07-2019 17:25 via bbc.co.uk
  Chris Rushworth ends with match figures of 10-67 as Durham beat Worcestershire by 109 runs at Chester-le-Street.
  
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• County Championship: Yorkshire thump Somerset by an innings and 73 runs

  16-07-2019 15:39 via bbc.co.uk
  Yorkshire crush Somerset by an innings and 73 runs to dent their ambitions of a first-ever County Championship title.
  
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• County Championship: Essex beat Warwickshire to go top of Division One

  16-07-2019 15:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Simon Harmer takes 6-75 as Essex beat Warwickshire by 188 runs at Chelmsford to go top of the Division One table.
  
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• County cricket: Yorkshire beat Somerset, Essex v Warwickshire and more – live!

  16-07-2019 15:15
  Updates from around the county groundsHunt for legacy continues in wake of World Cup triumph
  You can get in touch with Tanya by email, twitter or BTL 2.15pm BST I like these spa towns. 2.13pm BST And the 96 run partnership has been broken at The Riverside, with Barnard lbw to Rimmington for 43. And Rushworth bowling from the other end. Ben Cox hangs on, 52 not out.Worcestershire 156-6 - need another 196 to win.2.10pm BST Ooooh-er - are we going to have a surprise at The Ageas? Hampshire’s
  
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• County Championship: Middlesex inflict Glamorgan's first loss

  16-07-2019 13:51 via bbc.co.uk
  Toby Roland-Jones bowls Middlesex to win over Glamorgan who suffer first loss of season in County Championship.
  
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• Cricket World Cup: fans of all 10 teams review the tournament

  16-07-2019 13:49
  Readers from around the world reflect on seven weeks of cricket and one astounding final
  England’s run to the semi-finals, and indeed final, could not have been more quintessentially English. The team came into the tournament on a great run and hope was lifted to even greater heights with a few high-quality performances, only to be met with a crash back to traditional English cynicism when we almost inevitably lost to two tournament underdogs. From this point on though, they were exception
  
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• New Zealand coach: ICC should consider trophy share in future after final drama

  16-07-2019 13:37
  • Black Caps coach declines to blame umpiring error for loss
  • Stead says losing in such a manner a ‘very hollow feeling’The New Zealand coach, Gary Stead, has shrugged off the debate over whether an umpiring error denied the Black Caps World Cup final glory against England, saying umpires are “human”. However, he added that sharing the trophy when teams cannot be separated should be considered.England beat New Zealand on boundaries scored after a tied super ove
  
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• The Spin | Cricket World Cup special: highs, lows and an otherworldly final

  16-07-2019 13:35
  We celebrate the moments that made the 2019 tournament, from Cottrell’s salute to New Zealand’s fielding and that drama Related: Cricket World Cup 2019: Guardian writers pick their highs and lowsRelated: Diversity is one of our strengths and it helped us win the World Cup | Moeen AliContinue reading...
  
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• How hard would it be to correct the slope of Lord’s cricket ground?

  16-07-2019 13:30
  The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific conceptsDuring the incredible Cricket World Cup final on Sunday, TV commentators repeatedly referred to the slope of the Lord’s ground. Why don’t they just level it off? How difficult can it be?John Carter, London SE20 Continue reading...
  
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• County cricket: Yorkshire v Somerset, Essex v Warwickshire and more – live!

  16-07-2019 13:02
  Updates from around the county groundsHunt for legacy continues in wake of World Cup triumph
  You can get in touch with Tanya by email, twitter or BTL 12.02pm BST De Lange going large at Sophia Gardens... oh but that’s a fourth wicket for Toby Roland-Jones. Death throes now...CARNAGE// de Lange goes 6,4,4,6,4 to take 24 off a Murtagh over, including this monster maximum over cow corner
  Glamorgan 250/7 after 83 overs #GLAvMID #GoGlam pic.twitter.com/LFMmi9qzfc 11.54am BSTTwo in two, it&rsquo
  
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• England Jofra Archer’s secret heartbreak: Brave cricket hero hid tragedy from teammates

  16-07-2019 12:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  ENGLAND cricket hero Jofra Archer suffered a family tragedy the day after the Cricket World Cup started.
  
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• Women's Ashes: England players share their favourite Ashes moment, go-to karaoke song and more

  16-07-2019 11:49 via bbc.co.uk
  England's Alex Hartley, Danielle Wyatt, Sophie Ecclestone and Kate Cross share their favourite Ashes moment, go-to karaoke song and more.
  
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• 'Hello... can you hear me?' When cricket and music collide

  16-07-2019 11:49 via bbc.co.uk
  England's Alex Hartley, Danielle Wyatt, Sophie Ecclestone and Kate Cross share their favourite Ashes moment, go-to karaoke song and more.
  
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• Clare in the community: It's just not cricket

  16-07-2019 11:00
  Brian gets over-familiar with a Kiwi acquaintance Continue reading...
  
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• Benefits of victory will disappear once England go back behind paywall | Matthew Engel

  16-07-2019 11:00
  Clashes with other events and changes in domestic structure mean cricket’s attempts to reclaim its territory will be resistedAn hour after the midsummer madness finished at Lord’s on Sunday night the phone rang. One of our relatives in Yorkshire had something to say. “I couldn’t handle the tension,” announced nine-year-old Amos. “Really, I just wanted it to be over. My hands were so sweaty.” He did not say this as though it were a bad thing. He said it w
  
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• The colour and drama of the Cricket World Cup – photo essay

  16-07-2019 10:45
  Guardian and Observer photographer Tom Jenkins spent seven weeks working on the Cricket World Cup from the first game between South Africa and England at the Oval to the dramatic finale at Lord’s. His images here focus on the friendly and colourful tournament that showcased the country’s multicultural populationClick on the information icons for more details on each imageEverybody is allowed to be themselves, and everybody should be a little bit different as well.I’m not even g
  
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• Former Fairfax newspapers lose Chris Gayle defamation appeal

  16-07-2019 02:21
  The Sydney Morning Herald and Age wrongly accused the cricketer of exposing himself to a female massage therapistThe Sydney Morning Herald and Age newspapers have lost an appeal against a defamation payment of $300,000 to international cricketer Chris Gayle, who was wrongly accused of exposing himself to a female massage therapist in 2015.The court of appeal unanimously dismissed the appeal from the former Fairfax media group as well as a cross-appeal from Gayle who wanted to increase the amount
  
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• Inside the England dressing room as Cricket World Cup champions celebrate at Lord's

  16-07-2019 01:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  ENGLAND players celebrated long into the night after winning the Cricket World Cup, appearing to leave Lord’s in the early hours of Monday morning.
  
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