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• Steve Smith to play for Australia against Derbyshire after returning to nets

  24-08-2019 22:25 via theguardian.com
  • Smith cleared to bat by medics after sitting out Headingley Test• Denly says Root’s innings has given England belief they can winSteve Smith has stepped up his comeback from the concussion he suffered during the second Test at Lord’s after returning to the nets for his first batting session in a week. Australia’s premier batsman is sitting out the Headingley Test as he recovers from the Jofra Archer short ball that struck him in the neck and caused delayed symptoms
  
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• Joe Denly shows touch of class in belated attempt to shed outsider tag | Ali Martin

  24-08-2019 22:12 via theguardian.com
  Under-fire batsman’s determined half-century at Headingley was a performance that should earn him at least one more TestJoe Denly’s belated Test career owes much to the perspective that comes with age.After a handful of one-day caps in his early 20s he admits he went missing in county cricket and overcame a crippling run of poor form only when he stopped craving an England return so badly. Related: Joe Root digs in to give England glimmer of hope in third Ashes TestRelated: Joe Root
  
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• Joe Root shakes off the sleepless nights to awaken his inner Boycott | Andy Bull

  24-08-2019 21:49 via theguardian.com
  England captain is fighting for more than just the Ashes and discovered the attitude he needed at HeadingleyIt was hot in the sunshine at Headingley and by two o’clock a lot of the spectators were sheltering in the shadows under the Western Terrace. There was not a scrap of cover out in the middle then, where Joe Root, horribly exposed, was just starting out on one of the most important innings of his career. Root was playing to prove he is still one of the world’s best batsman, that
  
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• Marnus Labuschagne proves himself a sparkling Ashes understudy | Geoff Lemon

  24-08-2019 21:27 via theguardian.com
  The batsman brought in after Steve Smith’s concussion enjoyed the rub of the green and now has three Test fifties in a rowOf all of the prayers and invocations and chants and rituals aimed at the Ashes, through the red-sock superstitions and the shushing of jinxes and the supplications to latent power within tattered posters of Derek Pringle, someone must have connected to a good sprite who sprinkled some magic over the Australian No 4 batting position.First it was Steve Smith, doing what
  
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• Ashes: Joe Root & Joe Denly give England a chance against Australia

  24-08-2019 21:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch highlights as a 126-run partnership between Joe Root and Joe Denly leaves England 156-3 at the close of day three of the third Ashes Test, chasing 359 to beat Australia.
  
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• Ashes 2019: England end on 156-3 chasing 359 v Australia, third Test day three – as it happened

  24-08-2019 20:33 via theguardian.com
  The two Joes, Root and Denly, restored some pride with a fiercely determined partnership - and gave England an outside chance of a miraculous victory 7.33pm BSTRelated: Joe Root digs in to give England glimmer of hope in third Ashes Test7.07pm BST England need another 203 runs to complete a Headingley miracle to go alongside 1981 and 2001. Australia need seven wickets to retgain the Ashes, and they are still huge favourites. The new ball is due after eight overs tomorrow, and their impeccable bo
  
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• Joe Root digs in to give England glimmer of hope in third Ashes Test

  24-08-2019 20:29 via theguardian.com
  • Australia 179 & 246, England 67 & 156-3
  • England captain unbeaten but Denly departs for 50We are still here. When England were 15 for two in their seventh over with another 344 runs required for victory and 70 overs to be bowled in the day, swift exit possibilities were being explored. Now other possibilities, more unlikely but much more intriguing, have surfaced. In their pursuit of 359 for victory England were 156 for three at the close with Joe Root on home turf attemptin
  
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• Ashes: England's Joe Denly falls v Australia after century partnership with Joe Root

  24-08-2019 19:27 via bbc.co.uk
  Joe Denly gloves Josh Hazlewood behind after sharing a 126-run partnership with Joe Root with England chasing 359 to win the third Ashes Test at Headingley.
  
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• Ashes: England's Jason Roy bowled by Australia's Pat Cummins at Headingley

  24-08-2019 15:24 via bbc.co.uk
  England opener Jason Roy is bowled by Australia's Pat Cummins for just eight as the hosts chase 359 to win the third Ashes Test at Headingley.
  
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• Ashes: England's Rory Burns edges Australia's Josh Hazlewood to David Warner at Headingley

  24-08-2019 15:05 via bbc.co.uk
  England opener Rory Burns edges Australia's Josh Hazlewood to David Warner at first slip to fall for just seven as the hosts chase 359 to win the third Ashes Test at Headingley.
  
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• Ashes 2019: England chasing 359 v Australia, third Test day three – live!

  24-08-2019 14:42 via theguardian.com
  Updates from the third day of play at HeadingleyEngland capitulate with an exhausted shrugAny thoughts? Email or tweet @collinsadam 1.42pm BST It will be Cummins to Roy. We’re back. PLAY! 1.40pm BST “England need more than five times as many in the 4th innings as they got in the second,” notes Jim Hart. “Anyone know what the record is in a winning 4th innings chase?”That would be, if I recall correctly, the West Indies at the Rec in 2003 vs Australia. They successfu
  
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• Ashes: Australia's James Pattison edges England's Jofra Archer to Joe Root at Headingley

  24-08-2019 13:04 via bbc.co.uk
  Australia's James Pattinson edges England's Jofra Archer to Joe Root at first slip to fall for 20 in the third Ashes Test at Headingley.
  
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• Ashes 2019: England v Australia, third Test day three – live!

  24-08-2019 11:23 via theguardian.com
  Updates from the third day of play at HeadingleyEngland capitulate with an exhausted shrugAny thoughts? Email or tweet @JPHowcroft 10.23am BST Tim Smith disagrees with my suggestion that prioritising a home World Cup over the Ashes was worthwhile for England. “As any true cricket lover knows the long form is the pinnacle of the sport. Anything less is an accommodation to generate revenue, pure and simple. As such any Test playing authority who puts short form above long form is not worthy
  
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• Australian women's cricketers launch Indigenous uniform

  24-08-2019 06:06 via theguardian.com
  The Aboriginal-designed uniform will be worn against England in February 2020The uniform pays homage to the 1868 Aboriginal cricket teamThe Australian Women’s Cricket Team will wear a uniform designed by Aboriginal artists when they take on England in a T20 international on 1 February 2020 on Ngunnawal Country, at Manuka Oval in Canberra.A collaborative project between Cricket Australia, Aboriginal artists, Kirrae Whurrong woman Aunty Fiona Clarke and Butchulla woman Courtney Hagen, and As
  
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