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• Western Storm beat Southern Vipers and are first to win Super League twice

  01-09-2019 21:17
  • Heather Knight saw Storm home with unbeaten 78
  • Knight hits winning runs with six balls to spareWestern Storm became the first team to win the Kia Super League title twice, repeating their feat from 2017 against the same opposition as they once again pipped Southern Vipers at the post, chasing down their target of 173 with six wickets in hand but only six balls to spare.Fittingly it was the captain, Heather Knight, who hit the winning runs, punching a four down the ground as she fin
  
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• Women's Super League: Heather Knight & Deepti Sharma lead Western Storm to title v Southern Vipers

  01-09-2019 20:32 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch the best shots from an unbroken partnership of 71 between Heather Knight and Deepti Sharma as Western Storm beat Southern Vipers by six wickets to win their second Women's Super League title.
  
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• Australia’s Steve Smith seizes second chance in Ashes tale of two redemptions | Matthew Engel

  01-09-2019 18:04
  Rather than being booed, Australia’s leading batsman should be saluted as a brave and decent cricketer for his stirring batting performances against EnglandFor tonight we’ll merry merry be,For tonight we’ll merry merry be, Related: Returning Steve Smith plays down impact of Jofra Archer bouncerRelated: There have been 2,358 Tests since 1877 and this was the greatest of them all | Matthew EngelContinue reading...
  
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• Women's Super League: Western Storm's Sonia Odedra takes brilliant to remove Suzie Bates

  01-09-2019 17:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Western Storm's Sondia Odedra takes a "brilliant" return catch to remove Southern Vipers opener Suzie Bates in the Women's Super League final at Hove.
  
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• Highlights: Danni Wyatt and Suzie Bates star as Vipers set up Storm Women's Super League final clash

  01-09-2019 16:25 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch the best shots as Danni Wyatt and Suzie Bates put on 76 for the opening partnership to help Southern Vipers earn a place in the Women's Super League final against Western Storm.
  
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• Women's Super League finals day: Amy Jones bowled by Lauren Bell

  01-09-2019 13:25 via bbc.co.uk
  Loughborough Lightning and England opener Amy Jones is bowled by Southern Vipers' Lauren Bell in the Women's Super League semi-final at Hove.
  
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• Ben Stokes, hero of Headingley, is England’s buccaneering totem

  01-09-2019 11:00
  The all-action miracle man will never be perfect but belongs to that rare group of sporting giants with superhuman willIn the delirious aftermath of the World Cup final in July, Jos Buttler had a quick chat with Michael Vaughan on the Lord’s outfield. The conversation soon turned to the bizarre incident in the final over of normal time, when Martin Guptill’s throw hit Ben Stokes’s bat and raced to the boundary. “That,” whispered Buttler, “was the first thing h
  
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• Going with the crowd is now the way to seeing the future with better odds | Greg Wood

  01-09-2019 10:00
  The rise of Betfair’s wisdom-of-crowds online gambling model has put canny sports fans in the driving seatSir Tim Rice found a moment during the gripping final hours of the third Ashes Test at Headingley last weekend to tweet about the latest betting on the outcome. “Just phoned my bookie (a rare occurrence of course),” he said, “to see what odds they were offering against an England win. They quoted 6-1! Ludicrous. Should be 500-1. At 100-1 I might have invested a fiver.
  
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• Thank you, Ben Stokes, for another Headingley miracle | Emma John

  01-09-2019 07:00
  After years of hearing about Botham’s exploits from our parents, thanks to Ben Stokes we now have new tales to tell
  There was something about Ben Stokes’s miraculous match-winning performance in the third Ashes Test that felt like a coming of age. Not for him, you understand, but for me. For me and anyone else too embryonic to have been around for Headingley 81.Like all England fans, I maintain a suitable awe of Ian Botham, all-round genius and charity walker. But Beefy has always be
  
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• David Gower reveals what England's Joe Root must remember in Ashes fourth Test - EXCLUSIVE

  01-09-2019 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chief Sports Correspondent of the Sunday Express Jim Holden talks to David Gower about the Ashes, which returns for the fourth Test at Old Trafford next week, and in particular England captain Joe Root, who he believes must remember "how good he is" after the highs and lows of the third Test.
  
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