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• T20 Blast: Aaron Finch century keeps Surrey alive with Somerset win

  27-08-2019 23:12 via bbc.co.uk
  Aaron Finch smashes an unbeaten 102 as Surrey hammer Somerset at The Oval to keep alive their hopes of a T20 quarter-final.
  
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• There have been 2,358 Tests since 1877 and this was the greatest of them all | Matthew Engel

  27-08-2019 21:40
  It is hard to differentiate between a great game and a great finish but Ben Stokes’s Headingley miracle takes the biscuitBeing broad-minded, we had an unbeliever to stay the weekend. At some point on Sunday afternoon I yelled out of the window: “You’ve got to come and see this! It’s the most astonishing game!” A languorous, world-weary voice replied from the garden: “Cricket! Always astonishing. Always historic. Always unprecedented.” She never budged.It
  
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• England's most thrilling Ashes win - which Test won the vote?

  27-08-2019 21:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Was Ben Stokes' Test at Headingley the most exciting England win of all time?
  
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• Ashes 2019: James Anderson bowls 20 overs for Lancashire second XI

  27-08-2019 20:59 via bbc.co.uk
  England seamer James Anderson bowls 20 overs for Lancashire second XI as he aims to prove his fitness for the fourth Ashes Test against Australia.
  
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• Fidel Edwards: West Indies bowler extends Hampshire stay

  27-08-2019 18:41 via bbc.co.uk
  Former West Indies paceman Fidel Edwards signs a new one-year contract extension with Hampshire for the 2020 summer season.
  
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• Ben Stokes v Australia: a Headingley miracle – The Spin podcast

  27-08-2019 18:19
  Emma John is joined by Charlie Baker, Tim de Lisle and Felicity Ward to discuss the miracle of Headingley ‘19. Was this Ashes-saving innings better than Botham’s at the same venue and does it gloss over England’s 67 all out? Plus, The Spin launches its own unofficial Ben Stokes energy drinkContinue reading...
  
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• The Spin | Goodbye misery, hello glee: Ashes miracle was fans’ Test of character

  27-08-2019 13:13
  Headingley 2019 has left English sceptics, cynics and pessimists in dreamland – being proved wrong never felt so rightThere are things you can learn about yourself only in extremis: when your plane ditches in the Arctic tundra, for instance. Instead of the untapped action hero you’ve always suspected lives inside you, you discover you’re actually the scene-one extra who would rather succumb to a rapid and surprisingly comfortable hypothermia. At least you’re leaving the r
  
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• Ben Stokes celebrated Ashes exploits with TV replay and fast-food

  27-08-2019 11:14
  • Allrounder revels in aftermath of Headingley heroics
  • Stokes: ‘There were quarter-pounders flying everywhere’Ben Stokes has revealed he celebrated his miraculous Ashes-saving innings at Headingley with his England teammates by visiting a McDonald’s drive-thru.The 28-year-old hit an unbeaten 135 – including eight sixes – as he won the third Test virtually single-handedly on Sunday. Related: Once troubled Ben Stokes now has a summer he will always own | A
  
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• Once troubled Ben Stokes now has a summer he will always own | Andy Bull

  27-08-2019 10:00
  His career obituary was being written in 2017 but England’s Headingley Ashes hero has become the best version of himselfThe messiest corner of any sports writer’s life is their waste-paper bin. A lot of the time print deadlines are so tight that most of the writing is done live while the match happens, and since sport has an unfortunate way of throwing up all those late twists you end up, often as not, throwing half of it away.This is the stuff that does not even get to be the next d
  
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• Ben Stokes and team-mates celebrated Ashes heroics with £55 drive-thru blow-out

  27-08-2019 09:43 via bbc.co.uk
  England hero Ben Stokes reveals how he and his team-mates celebrated their remarkable Ashes win at Headingley on Sunday.
  
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• Ben Stokes out to emulate Freddie Flintoff as England look to replicate 2005 Ashes heroics

  27-08-2019 08:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Daily Express chief sports writer Neil Squires draws comparisons between the current Ashes series and England’s iconic 2005 triumph after an incredible third Test at Headingley.
  
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• Talking Horses: England cricketers set to cause racecourse buzz

  27-08-2019 01:01
  Elysium Dream, owned by Stuart Broad, Jimmy Anderson and Eoin Morgan, back in training at Richard Hannon’s stablesAshes fever is spreading to racing and one focus of excitement is where a filly named Elysium Dream will run next – because she could well bring along to the track three of her owners plus teammates. Stuart Broad, Jimmy Anderson and Eoin Morgan are the stalwarts of The Racing Cricketers & Partner, the syndicate whose colours she runs in.The trio are regular racegoers
  
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• Ashes 2019: English summer 'written in the stars' - Michael Vaughan

  27-08-2019 00:23 via bbc.co.uk
  Michael Vaughan says with the World Cup and the amazing Headingley win, the English summer feels as though it is "written in the stars".
  
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