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• Steve Smith has a quiet day on return for Australia against Derbyshire

  29-08-2019 21:08
  Back after suffering concussion, Smith had to be content with a single, peculiar over of bowling spin in the tour matchFans in Derby wanting to see Steve Smith had to content themselves with a bevy of autographs at stumps on the first day of Australia’s tour match, with the opening batsmen, Usman Khawaja and Marcus Harris, compiling 77 unbeaten runs after Derbyshire were bowled out for 172.Smith is listed at No 4 in his return since becoming the first Test player to be substituted because
  
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• After Headlingley, English cricket still faces its greatest test | Letters

  29-08-2019 18:45
  England’s third Test victory has a fictional precedent, writes Charles Barr, while Dr Howard Mason has a suggestion for England’s best cricketing all-rounder. Tom Rodwell says cricket’s survival depends on free-to-air TV coverageThere is one candidate for the greatest Test that Matthew Engel (28 August) fails to mention. Ahead of the momentous Ashes series of 1926, the Surrey and England star batsman Jack Hobbs gave his name to a prophetic novel, The Test Match Surprise. As las
  
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• 'The ball's in our court': Archer says heroic win may have swung Ashes England's way – video

  29-08-2019 18:10
  Jofra Archer believes the England cricket team have "planted a few seeds of doubt" in the minds of Australia's players with their incredible win at Headingley.Asked on Wednesday if the momentum is now with England going into the fourth Test, paceman Archer said: "We don't have to be optimists. I think so."England's attack looks likely to be bolstered by the return of record wicket-taker Jimmy Anderson following injury.Archer, who has already claimed 13 wickets in the series,
  
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• Jack Leach’s glasses cause optical illusion that we could be like him | Max Rushden

  29-08-2019 15:59
  The Headingley hero’s appearance gives us that ludicrous fake spark of hope that at some point in another life we too could have flicked that single off our hipsIt’s rare a sporting moment makes you shake. Last Sunday, while Ben Stokes was carving Australia to all parts of Headingley, I was in a park watching on my phone. As Nathan Lyon failed to collect the ball cleanly as Jack Leach wandered about in no man’s land I realised I had lost control of my body. The screen was all o
  
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• England’s Ashes puzzles: what to do about Anderson, Roy – and Stokes | Tim de Lisle

  29-08-2019 14:09
  Who makes room for Jimmy Anderson? Should Jason Roy be dropped or moved? And how do make sure Ben Stokes is still on song? There is plenty to ponder before the fourth TestEngland’s greatest bowler of the past decade has just proved his fitness again after pulling up lame on the first morning of the series. Good news, right? Well, yes, but in his absence, England discovered their greatest bowler of the next decade. Jimmy Anderson and Jofra Archer could be the new-ball pair of Ed Smith&rsquo
  
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• The Hundred: Charlotte Edwards & Mahela Jayawardene to coach Southampton-based side

  29-08-2019 12:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Charlotte Edwards and Mahela Jayawardene are named head coaches for The Hundred's Southampton-based side.
  
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