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• Mark Wood column: What Trevor Bayliss is really like

  11-09-2019 22:33 via bbc.co.uk
  England bowler Mark Wood says "all of the players will miss" departing coach Trevor Bayliss and his "old school methods".
  
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• Joe Root wants England to send off Trevor Bayliss with an Ashes victory

  11-09-2019 21:05 via theguardian.com
  • Jason Roy left out with recalls for Sam Curran and Chris Woakes
  • ‘I know the direction I want to take this team,’ says RootJoe Root said the planning for England’s next Ashes tour to Australia begins right away, after dropping Jason Roy for Thursday’s fifth Test and telling others they are playing for their futures. A shoulder injury to Ben Stokes, who plays as a specialist batsman, has given England an easy out on the misfiring Roy, with Sam Curran recalled
  
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• County cricket: Yorkshire collapse hands Somerset title boost – as it happened

  11-09-2019 20:30 via theguardian.com
  A calamitous morning collapse at Taunton swung the championship pendulum towards Somerset with Essex struggling against Warwickshire 8.29pm BST A calamitous morning collapse at Taunton swung the championship pendulum firmly towards Somerset. From a promising position, Yorkshire lost six for 17 in barely seven overs, a short, sharp, shock compounded by Ben Coad falling sick and being unable to bat. Somerset strode gratefully into the distance, Tom Abell notching up his second fifty of the match,
  
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• David Gower on nicknames, Boycott and the final Ashes Test – The Spin podcast

  11-09-2019 19:55 via theguardian.com
  Former England cricket captain David Gower joins Emma John prior to the final Ashes Test of the summer. Regular guests Andy Bull and Charlie Baker will also answer some of the big questions raised by England’s failure to impress in the longer format of the game, and whether Geoffrey Boycott should have been nominated for a knighthood Continue reading...
  
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• Agincourt ascribed to a mistaken scribe | Brief letters

  11-09-2019 19:11 via theguardian.com
  Azincourt | Geoffrey Boycott | Strawberries | Steam trains | Coffee ordersI think Prof Valentine Cunningham might be wrong about Agincourt being a medieval trooper’s mishearing of Azincourt (Letters, 7 September). I believe it was actually a spelling error; some medieval scribe mistook the letter Z for the letter yogh (a version of G). The opposite occurs in the name McKenzie, which is really McKengie, similar to Menzies, pronounced “Mingies”.Robert Craig
  Weston-super-Mare, Som
  
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• Ashes 2019: Joe Root says England must build towards Ashes in Australia

  11-09-2019 18:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Captain Joe Root says England must build towards winning the Ashes in Australia in 2021-22 after failing to regain the urn this summer.
  
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• Bayliss is bowing out, but England’s flaws remain beyond this Ashes finale | Vic Marks

  11-09-2019 17:52 via theguardian.com
  This game has meaning, for history shows the ‘dead’ rubber in a series can have lasting significance – not least on the captaincyThe Ashes may be gone but the notion of a dead rubber seldom applies when England meet Australia. A Test match between these two nations has a life of its own. There is now the added incentive of points in the Test Championship (no irony intended here, let’s give it a go) and a drawn series would be a welcome rarity in Ashes cricket.Moreover the
  
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• Fifth Test is Australia’s ‘Grand Final’ even with Ashes won, says Tim Paine

  11-09-2019 17:45 via theguardian.com
  • Captain desperate to emulate 2001 series win in England
  • ‘We want this Test just as much as any other in this series’Australia have been filming a fly-on-the-wall documentary during this Ashes campaign and now the fifth Test – one their captain Tim Paine has dubbed a “Grand Final” – is a chance to hand the editors a flourish for the final episode.As well as the head coach, Justin Langer, Paine has drawn on the experience of the team’s mentor
  
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• Fifth Test is Australia’s ‘Grand Final’ even with Ashes retained, says Paine

  11-09-2019 17:45 via theguardian.com
  • Captain desperate to emulate 2001 series win in England
  • ‘We want this Test just as much as any other in this series’Australia have been filming a fly-on-the-wall documentary during this Ashes campaign and now the fifth Test – one their captain, Tim Paine, has dubbed a “Grand Final” – is a chance to hand the editors a flourish for the last episode.As well as the head coach, Justin Langer, Paine has drawn on the experience of the team’s mento
  
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• Ashes captains on Joe Root's role and the fifth and final Test – video

  11-09-2019 16:50 via theguardian.com
  Ashes captains Joe Root and Tim Paine have spoken ahead of the fifth and final Ashes Test at the Oval. England have made two changes with Sam Curran and Chris Woakes replacing Jason Roy and Craig Overton. Root insisted there was plenty still for his side to play for. 'It’s bitterly disappointing not to have got the Ashes back, but we haven’t lost anything yet,' he said. 'We’ve got to make sure we square the series up'. Australia will be looking to seal the series with a win. 'T
  
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• Geoffrey Boycott’s self-absorption has always kept him close to controversy | Matthew Engel

  11-09-2019 15:59 via theguardian.com
  It was entirely in keeping with the nature of Boycott’s cricketing and subsequent careers that it took just hours for the announcement of his knighthood to turn messyIt has taken 40 years – longer than even the most interminable Boycott innings – but it has come to pass, as the prophet foretold.It was Christmas 1979; then as now, England had just been walloped by Australia; Boycott had batted through an otherwise hopeless second innings in Perth for an unbeaten 99. On the Guard
  
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• England make two changes to team for final Ashes Test with Jason Roy dropped

  11-09-2019 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  England have made two changes to their team for the final Ashes Test at the Oval.
  
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• England drop Jason Roy and bring in Curran and Woakes for fifth Ashes Test

  11-09-2019 14:52 via theguardian.com
  • Craig Overton also replaced for final Test at the Oval
  • Australia’s Tim Paine calls up Mitchell Marsh for Travis HeadEngland have made two changes to their side for the fifth Ashes Test starting at the Oval on Thursday, with Sam Curran and Chris Woakes replacing Jason Roy and Craig Overton.Roy has failed to impress in the first four matches of the series, while the England and Wales Cricket Board also confirmed Ben Stokes would not bowl in the match, which gets under way on Th
  
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• Joe Root’s fatigue shows the catch of being a cricketer for all formats | Andy Bull

  11-09-2019 13:55 via theguardian.com
  The England Test captain’s tiredness exposes modern cricket’s faultline – a packed schedule is brilliant for fans but brutal for playersThe weather seemed to turn last week, and the conversation with it. All of a sudden it was autumn and, since what it’s like out is one of the few reliable topics of conversation in this country, friends sent despairing messages from Old Trafford complaining about how bitterly cold it was in the stands. The cricket season’s still got
  
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• County cricket: Warwickshire v Essex, Somerset v Yorkshire and more – live!

  11-09-2019 11:39 via theguardian.com
  Updates from around the county groundsDay one: wickets tumble as title contenders struggleGet in touch with Tanya by email, Twitter or BTL 10.39am BST And in other news, James Anderson is considering following Peter Siddle and turning to veganism to prolong his career. "Australia bowler Peter Siddle, who famously eats up to 20 bananas a day, is cricket’s most prominent vegan."
  https://t.co/51r68qhUGH 10.37am BST I don’t think I linked this by Marina Hyde yesterday on Geoffrey Boycott
  
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