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• T20 Blast: Notts Outlaws crush Middlesex to reach Finals Day

  05-09-2019 23:47
  • Middlesex 160-8; Notts Outlaws 165-0 (Outlaws win by 10 wkts)
  • Alex Hales (83*) and Chris Nash (74*) show Middlesex no mercyThe openers Chris Nash and Alex Hales fired Notts Outlaws to Vitality Blast Finals Day with a 10-wicket win against Middlesex at Trent Bridge. The hosts’ bold decision to tinker with their top order paid off as Nash, replacing Joe Clarke, and Hales led their side to victory with a 165-run stand.Set a victory target of 161, Outlaws raced to the finish line
  
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• T20 Blast: Alex Hales and Chris Nash send Notts Outlaws cruising into T20 Blast Finals Day

  05-09-2019 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  A magnificent partnership from Alex Hales and Chris Nash gives Nottinghamshire Outlaws a 10-wicket win over Middlesex in the quarter-finals of the T20 Blast.
  
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• T20 Blast: Notts Outlaws beat Middlesex by 10 wickets in quarter-final

  05-09-2019 22:59 via bbc.co.uk
  Notts Outlaws thrash Middlesex by 10 wickets to reach their third T20 Blast Finals Day in the past four seasons.
  
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• Ashes 2019: England must not be written off but day two was like torture

  05-09-2019 22:33 via bbc.co.uk
  England should not be written off but Steve Smith made day two of the fourth Test feel like torture, writes Stephan Shemilt.
  
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• Steve Smith: England’s short deliveries soften the ball and play into my hands

  05-09-2019 21:59
  • Joe Root and Trevor Bayliss deliver scolding to England team
  • ‘It’s satisfying to get a big score’ after Headingley, says SmithEngland face an uphill battle to keep their Ashes hopes alive after a scolding from Joe Root was followed by the agony of watching Steve Smith pile on a masterful double-century in Manchester. Related: Australia’s Steve Smith hits double century to turn screw on EnglandRelated: England’s inept afternoon conjures dark memories of
  
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• Joe Root and Trevor Bayliss fail to get reaction as Steve Smith takes control

  05-09-2019 21:59
  • Captain and coach deliver scolding to England team
  • Smith: ‘It’s satisfying to get a big score’England face an uphill battle to keep their Ashes hopes alive after a scolding from Joe Root was followed by the agony of watching Steve Smith pile on a masterful double-century in Manchester.Root and Trevor Bayliss, the head coach, are understood to have thundered about the team’s poor attitude following their struggles on the wind- and rain-swept opening day &ndas
  
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• Ashes 2019: Steve Smith says England's tactics played into his hands at Old Trafford

  05-09-2019 21:50 via bbc.co.uk
  Steve Smith says England's tactics played into his hands after his double century gave Australia control of the fourth Ashes Test.
  
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• Australia’s Tim Paine does not need to be peeling off tons to be worth his salt | Geoff Lemon

  05-09-2019 21:43
  Supporting top batsmen such as Steve Smith and stitching together faltering innings makes captain a valuable Ashes assetWhen your Ashes tour around England extends from days into months, you start to read the local consensus. Pub talk, pundit talk and player talk overlap, sometimes divergent and sometimes repeated. When this year’s subject has been Steve Smith there has been a general despondency; for Australia’s fast bowlers a general disquiet; for the wicketkeeping captain, Tim Pai
  
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• England’s inept afternoon conjures dark memories of 90s Ashes failings | Barney Ronay

  05-09-2019 21:17
  Two and a half hours of spills, thrills and bellyaches put Australia out of sight and the home side may already be thinking about how to surviveFor a while in mid‑afternoon as the score ticked along, the white shapes moved listlessly about the Old Trafford turf and the men in green helmets punched gloves at some fresh milestone, something odd seemed to happen. Related: Australia’s Steve Smith hits double century to turn screw on EnglandRelated: Australia’s Tim Paine does not ne
  
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• Ashes 2019: Steve Smith 211 punishes wasteful England in fourth Test

  05-09-2019 21:10 via bbc.co.uk
  Steve Smith's relentless 211 demoralises England and puts Australia in prime position to retain the Ashes after two days of the fourth Test.
  
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• Ashes highlights: Steve Smith's double century puts Australia in control of fourth Ashes Test

  05-09-2019 21:03 via bbc.co.uk
  Steve Smith scores a double century as Australia declare on 497-8 to take control on an error-strewn day two for England who finish on 23-1 in the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford.
  
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• Ashes 2019: England finish day two on 23-1 after Australia dominate – as it happened

  05-09-2019 20:49
  Steve Smith hit 211 before Australia declared on 497-8, with England’s miserable day ending with the wicket of Joe DenlyRead Vic Marks’ report of day two 9.05pm BSTRelated: Joe Root and Trevor Bayliss fail to get reaction as Steve Smith takes control9.04pm BSTRelated: Australia’s Tim Paine does not need to be peeling off tons to be worth his salt | Geoff Lemon9.03pm BSTRelated: England’s inept afternoon conjures dark memories of 90s Ashes failings | Barney Ronay7.18pm BST
  
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• Australia’s Steve Smith hits double century to turn screw on England

  05-09-2019 20:28
  • Australia 497-8 dec; England 23-1
  • Smith ‘out’ off Jack Leach no-ball after reaching centuryIt is that man again. Currently he averages 147.25 in the series and the parallels with Bradman are no longer delivered with a wry grin. Steve Smith has done it again. He is never beautiful but he is brilliant and forever mesmerising, especially during his increasingly eccentric post-delivery antics. Then he resembles one of the great mime artists as he demonstrates – very o
  
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• Ashes: England's Joe Denly caught at short leg by Matthew Wade

  05-09-2019 20:18 via bbc.co.uk
  England lose opener Joe Denly as Matthew Wade takes a good catch at short leg off the bowling of Pat Cummins in the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford.
  
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• Ashes: England remove Australia's Steve Smith for 211

  05-09-2019 19:05 via bbc.co.uk
  England finally remove Australia's Steve Smith for 211 after he reverse-sweeps Joe Root straight to Joe Denly at backward point in the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford.
  
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• Man charged £55k for a single beer in Manchester hotel

  05-09-2019 18:48 via bbc.co.uk
  Peter Lalor is waiting for a refund after being mistakenly charged £55,315 for a £5.50 bottle of ale.
  
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• Steve Smith reaches 200 against England at Old Trafford

  05-09-2019 18:46 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch the moment Australia's Steve Smith brings up a brilliant 200 in the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford.
  
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• Manchester hotel charges Australian £55,000 for a beer

  05-09-2019 16:56
  Cricket writer was stunned to find his bank honoured payment of A$99,983.64Complaints about the price of a pint are nothing new but an Australian journalist has more reason than most to gripe, after being charged more than £55,000 for a beer in a Manchester hotel.Peter Lalor, who is the chief cricket writer and beer editor of the Australian newspaper, was charged the exorbitant sum for a bottle of Deuchars IPA at the Malmaison hotel, after a day watching the Ashes cricket series at Old Tra
  
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• Ashes: Steve Smith reprieved after Jack Leach no-ball

  05-09-2019 15:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Australia's key man Steve Smith edges to Ben Stokes at slip on 118 but is given a reprieve when replays show that the delivery from Jack Leach is a front-foot no-ball.
  
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• Watch: Archer drops key man Smith on 65

  05-09-2019 12:24 via bbc.co.uk
  Jofra Archer drops Australia's key man Steve Smith on 65 on day two of the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford.
  
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• Ashes 2019: England v Australia fourth Test, day two – live!

  05-09-2019 10:57
  Updates from the second day of play at Old TraffordSmith craft dampens English hopes of fiery Archer rematchAny thoughts? Email or tweet @JPHowcroft 9.57am BST Chris Raybould has the honour of sending in the first email of the day. It takes an unexpected turn. “Sitting here in Australia and wondering whether England might have had their two big games of the summer,” he writes. “I desperately want them to wrestle the Ashes back but as good as he is, Stokesy isn’t a one man
  
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