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• Women's Ashes: Meg Lanning scores 133 as Australia beat England in T20

  26-07-2019 23:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch Meg Lanning's best shots on the way to a stunning 133 not out for Australia as they beat England by 93 runs in the first T20 match of the Women's Ashes series at Chelmsford.
  
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• Jos Buttler: England wicketkeeper extends Lancashire deal and set for The Hundred

  26-07-2019 23:20 via bbc.co.uk
  World Cup winner Jos Buttler signs a new deal with Lancashire and is set to play for Manchester Originals in The Hundred.
  
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• Australia win Women's Ashes after beating England in first T20 – as it happened

  26-07-2019 23:15
  Meg Lanning scored 133 – a record in a women’s T20 international – as Australia won by 93 runs to take an unassailable series lead 11.42pm BSTRelated: Australia seal Women’s Ashes triumph with record T20 defeat of England10.08pm BST That’s it, there’ll be no party-spoiling draws of the series this year. The points scoreline across all formats is 2-10 Australia’s way, meaning England can only close the gap to 6-10 at best. And that looks unlikely given th
  
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• Sri Lanka v Bangladesh: Lasith Malinga takes 3-38 in final ODI

  26-07-2019 20:37 via bbc.co.uk
  Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga takes 3-38, including the last wicket of the match, in his final one-day international as the hosts beat Bangladesh by 91 runs in Colombo.
  
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• Cameron Bancroft’s recall shows Australia are desperate to make up for the past | Geoff Lemon

  26-07-2019 20:22
  Selectors have given the opener another chance as they try to break the link with ball-tampering forged in South AfricaThere are stock phrases we get used to in Australian cricket. “Play his natural game” has been given a bit of a rest since the rank batting collapses early this decade. “Not crossing the line” is heard less often since the sandpaper fiasco of 2018. But “banging the door down” is alive and well.Bang the door down. That is what you are supposed
  
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• Ashes 2019: England team for first Test - as voted for by BBC Sport users

  26-07-2019 20:07 via bbc.co.uk
  Who should make their debut against Australia? And where should Joe Root bat? BBC Sport users have their say on the England team.
  
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• Joe Root hits out at ‘substandard’ Lord’s pitch after England’s three-day Test win

  26-07-2019 19:52
  • Root: ‘It wasn’t even close to being a fair contest’• England avoid defeat but Lord’s groundsman under fireEngland’s bowlers will not thank Joe Root for it but their captain was highly critical of the Lord’s pitch after his side’s 143-run victory against Ireland. “I don’t like saying this but the wicket was substandard for a Test match,” Root said after Ireland were bowled out for 38. “It wasn’t even close to bei
  
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• Porterfield’s bad feeling comes true at Lord’s to leave Ireland with regrets | Andy Bull

  26-07-2019 19:42
  Captain rues their missed opportunity for major upset against England – ‘the back end of day one was the best time to bat’A pitiless finish for Ireland, this, as sobering as a cold shower and a hot pot of coffee. For one brief, sweet moment, the third day blew their way, when Stuart Thompson bowled Olly Stone with the first ball of the morning. The wind was with them then, when Thompson leapt into his teammates’ embrace, and they beat back to the pavilion to ready themsel
  
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• Ashes 2019: England captain Joe Root has 'no concerns' about team's batting before Australia series

  26-07-2019 18:27 via bbc.co.uk
  Captain Joe Root says he has no "concerns" about England's batting before the Ashes against Australia.
  
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• England bowl Ireland out for 38 to win Lord's Test in three days

  26-07-2019 18:03 via bbc.co.uk
  England bowl Ireland out for 38 to win the four-day Test at Lord's by 143 runs and avoid being on the end of a stunning upset.
  
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• England beat Ireland by 143 runs to win Test match at Lord's – as it happened

  26-07-2019 15:47
  Under heavy cloud, with moisture in the air and the lights on, 11 wickets fell, 36 runs were scored and Ireland were beaten in a chaotic day at Lord’s 2.47pm BST Here’s a match report. I’ll be off then. Bye! Related: England skittle Ireland for 38 to bounce back and win Test match at Lord’s2.44pm BST There’s some discussion about whether Mazher Arshad’s stat is actually true, positing that Laker and Lock took all the wickets against Australia in 1956, and that
  
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• England beat Ireland by 143 runs to win Test match at Lords – live!

  26-07-2019 15:41
  Over-by-over coverage of England’s first Test against IrelandYou can email Simon or tweet @simon_burnton2.41pm BST Chris Woakes is chirpy:It was always going to be a little bit trick defending that score but I always felt confident we could knock them over. Still you’ve got to do a professional job, and it’s fair to say we did that. The World Cup was long and quite gruelling at times, and mentally and physically you feel a little bit drained, but then you’ve got a Test ma
  
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• England v Ireland: Chris Woakes takes sixth wicket as Ireland bowled out for 38

  26-07-2019 15:29 via bbc.co.uk
  Chris Woakes bowls Tim Murtagh to complete career best figures of 6-17 as England dismiss Ireland for 38 and seal a 143-run victory at Lord's.
  
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• Ireland beaten by England as Chris Woakes takes six to dash Irish dreams at Lord's

  26-07-2019 15:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  IRELAND's dream of a historic Test win at Lord's was blown away by England at Lord's with the visitors all out for 38.
  
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• England skittle Ireland for 38 to bounce back and win Test match at Lord’s

  26-07-2019 15:11
  • Woakes takes five wickets and Broad four in rampant display
  • England 85 & 303; Ireland 207 & 38. England win by 143 runsChris Woakes and Stuart Broad tore through Ireland in a savage morning session on day three at Lord’s to seal victory by 143 runs in the one-off Test match. Related: Ireland need 182 to beat England but wickets are tumbling: day three – live!Continue reading...
  
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• England skittle Ireland for 38 to bounce back and win Test at Lord’s

  26-07-2019 15:11
  • Woakes takes six wickets and Broad four in rampant display
  • England 85 & 303; Ireland 207 & 38. England win by 143 runsAnd so in the blink of an eye all hope was extinguished. Under glowering skies with the floodlights at full blast Irish dreams were shattered by the old English pros Stuart Broad and Chris Woakes. For the first time in three days the gulf between the sides was chillingly demonstrated. Having taken the wicket of Olly Stone with the first ball of a gloomy day,
  
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• Cameron Bancroft joins Smith and Warner in Australia’s Ashes squad

  26-07-2019 14:01
  • Trio reunited for first time since ball-tampering scandal
  • Recalls also for fast bowlers James Pattinson and Peter SiddleCameron Bancroft has been named in Australia’s Ashes squad, reuniting him with Steve Smith and David Warner for the first time since their involvement in the ball-tampering scandal.The opening batsman was instrumental in the plot to cheat against South Africa in March of last year as he applied sandpaper to the ball in Cape Town, an idea that Warner came up
  
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• Ashes 2019: Australia name Cameron Bancroft in squad to face England

  26-07-2019 13:53 via bbc.co.uk
  Australia recall opening batsman Cameron Bancroft in their 17-man squad for the Ashes series against England.
  
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• Ireland need 182 to beat England in Lord's Test match: rain delay – live!

  26-07-2019 12:38
  Over-by-over coverage of England’s first Test against IrelandDay two report: Ireland remain in hunt for Test winAndy Bull: Leach makes up for England’s lack of leadershipEmail [email protected] with any thoughts 11.36am BST The covers are on, with no immediate prospect of a resumption. The Guardian’s exclusive Leather on Willow Predictor reckons the players will be back on at 12.15pm. 11.28am BST “I’ve always wondered why it has to be a batsman to captain th
  
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• England v Ireland: Olly Stone bowled by Stuart Thompson by first ball of the day

  26-07-2019 12:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Stuart Thompson bowls Olly Stone with the first ball of the day on day three of England's Test against Ireland at Lord's.
  
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• The Great Romantic by Duncan Hamilton – one of the best biographies of a sports writer

  26-07-2019 10:00
  The interest never falters in Duncan Hamilton’s life of the colourful Guardian cricket correspondent Neville Cardus, who rose from poverty to invent literary sports reporting Neville Cardus’s death in early 1975 coincides in my memory with getting hold of two hotly desired things: Bob Dylan’s new album Blood on the Tracks, at last another masterpiece after a long, long wait; and John Fowles’s The Ebony Tower, “only” a collection of stories, unlike his zeitgeis
  
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• Jofra Archer to hand England huge Ashes boost as Sussex star primed for injury return

  26-07-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  ENGLAND hope Jofra Archer can give their Ashes plans a major boost by proving his fitness for the first Test tonight.
  
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• Cameron Bancroft set for Australia reunion with David Warner after Ashes audition

  26-07-2019 03:00
  Bancroft hits unbeaten 93 in pre-Ashes trial matchSquad for series in England announced on FridayCameron Bancroft has seemingly stormed into Australia’s Ashes squad with an unbeaten match-winning knock of 93 that could result in him reuniting with David Warner at the top of the order for the first Test.Bancroft, returning to a national side for the first time since serving a nine-month ban for his role in the ball-tampering scandal, dominated day three of the intra-squad clash in Southampt
  
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• England vs Ireland day two ended early by lightning at Lord's as hosts face tough task

  26-07-2019 01:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE second day of England's Test match against Ireland was forced to end early as nearby thunderstorms closed out a tumultuous day for the hosts.
  
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• England in need of third day thriller after batters collapse again to leave Ireland on top

  26-07-2019 01:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  THERE were positives to take from the second day of this rocket-fuelled Test match not least of which the second-highest score by an England opener since Alastair Cook retired.
  
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