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• Jos Buttler admits fatigue confusion after waking from lull to revive England

  12-09-2019 21:49 via theguardian.com
  • Buttler says it was nice to relax and have fun during unbeaten 64
  • Australia’s Mitchell Marsh reveals tragedy that led to slumpJos Buttler put confusing thoughts of fatigue to one side and decided to have some fun before the counterattacking half-century that has kept England’s heads above water in this final Ashes Test.Four wickets for Australia’s freshly recalled Mitch Marsh had threatened to ruin the opening day for Joe Root’s side, who after being asked t
  
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• Ashes 2019: 'Hated' Mitchell Marsh the unlikely foe who ripped through England

  12-09-2019 21:39 via bbc.co.uk
  Mitchell Marsh was not supposed to rip through England but a man who says he is hated in Australia proves to be the hosts' unlikely foe at The Oval.
  
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• Mitchell Marsh swings into Ashes groove to hush Australian naysayers | Geoff Lemon

  12-09-2019 21:03 via theguardian.com
  All-rounder is always a controversial pick but he swung the ball more than any bowler in the series to grab four England wicketsWhenever a team sheet appears featuring the name “Marsh” these days, you can hear a distant rumbling begin. It gathers pace across the Australian continent, growing in volume and intensity, as the voice of cricket followers swells into a storm of discontent. Bloody Marsh again, is the general tenor. How many times? What dirt does he have on the selectors? An
  
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• Heavy sits the crown of captaincy on Joe Root after ugly half-century | Barney Ronay

  12-09-2019 20:32 via theguardian.com
  Root entered his own Bermuda triangle, once again, after passing 50 before getting out to a fearsome Pat Cummins ballTo receive one stump‑splaying, seam‑fizzing, late‑afternoon miracle ball from Pat Cummins might be considered a misfortune. To get two in five days starts to look like … well, what exactly?Bad luck for Joe Root, certainly, whose misfortune it was to face the opening ball of Cummins’s 15th over on the first day of this Oval Test. It was Cummins who ha
  
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• Ashes: Watch as Jos Buttler's fifty gives England a platform despite middle-order disintegration

  12-09-2019 20:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Jos Buttler's counter-attack gives England hope after a middle-order collapse on the first day of the final Ashes Test at The Oval.
  
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• Jos Buttler keeps England afloat after familiar collapse against Australia

  12-09-2019 20:03 via theguardian.com
  • Fifth Test, day one: England 271-8 v Australia
  • Buttler finishes first day unbeaten on 64Two contrasting half-centuries kept England afloat - just about - on an another engaging day of Test cricket. Joe Root dutifully grafted away without inspiration in the first half of the day, while Jos Buttler for the first time in the series unfurled some of his one-day magic in the final session. The upshot was that England finished the day on 271 for eight; Australia will not be too disappoin
  
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• Ashes 2019: England v Australia, fifth Test day one – as it happened

  12-09-2019 19:52 via theguardian.com
  Jos Buttler bashed 64 not out and the recalled Mitch Marsh took four cheap wickets as England ended a topsy-turvy day on 271 for eight 7.51pm BSTRelated: Heavy sits the crown of captaincy on Joe Root after ugly half-century | Barney Ronay7.13pm BSTRelated: Jos Buttler rescues England after familiar collapse against Australia6.32pm BST That was an enjoyable day’s play. The recalled Mitch Marsh was the star, with four for 35, while Jos Buttler top-scored with a breezy unbeaten 64. Australia
  
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• County cricket: Somerset beat Yorkshire, Lancashire promoted – as it happened

  12-09-2019 19:24 via theguardian.com
  Somerset returned to the Division One summit with victory over title rivals Yorkshire, while Lancashire sealed an immediate escape from Division Two 8.02pm BST It was the afternoon someone put a rocket-booster up county cricket, six games finishing with a day still to go. At Taunton, Somerset traced the outline of the championship on to their brows after wrapping up a 298-run win against Yorkshire who, set 426 to win, were bowled out for 127. Keshav Maharaj had become Yorkshire’s leading w
  
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• Sir Andrew Strauss returns to ECB as cricket committee chair

  12-09-2019 18:05 via bbc.co.uk
  Former England captain Sir Andrew Strauss is appointed chair of the England and Wales Cricket Board's cricket committee.
  
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• Ashes: England captain Joe Root departs as Australia's Pat Cummins bowls him

  12-09-2019 17:36 via bbc.co.uk
  Joe Root becomes the fourth man out at The Oval as Pat Cummins bowls him for 57 in the fifth Ashes Test.
  
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• County cricket: Somerset beat Yorkshire, Warwickshire v Essex and more – live!

  12-09-2019 16:56 via theguardian.com
  Updates from around the county groundsEngland v Australia: fifth Ashes Test – live!
  And you can email Tanya, tweet her or comment BTL 3.50pm BST Division OneHampshire 149 & 436: Vince 91, Northeast 73, Dawson 88 Surrey 162: Pope 68; Barker 4-38 and 100-4. 3.38pm BST We think that Durham last beat Middlesex at Lord’s five years ago to the very day! 3.36pm BST DARREN STEVENS, in tooth and claw: 10-92 and 88.pic.twitter.com/TiqPKSDlht 3.31pm BST NOTTINGHAMSHIRE’S RELEGATION wi
  
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• Ashes: Ben Stokes out after slashing a short ball up to Nathan Lyon

  12-09-2019 16:04 via bbc.co.uk
  Ben Stokes departs for 20 after looping up an easy catch off Mitchell Marsh as Australia pick up a third wicket against England at The Oval.
  
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• Ashes: Rory Burns suffers a soft dismissal as Australia get their second wicket

  12-09-2019 15:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Rory Burns falls for 47 after chipping up an easy catch to short mid-wicket to give Australia a second wicket against England at The Oval.
  
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• Ashes 2019: England coach Trevor Bayliss reflects on his time in charge

  12-09-2019 14:40 via bbc.co.uk
  England coach Trevor Bayliss reflects on his four years in charge before stepping down at the end of the current Ashes series.
  
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• Ashes: Australia's Peter Siddle drops simple catch to let England's Joe Root off the hook

  12-09-2019 14:05 via bbc.co.uk
  Peter Siddle spills a seemingly straightforward catch in the deep to give England captain Joe Root a let-off during the fifth Ashes Test at The Oval.
  
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• Ashes 2019: England v Australia, fifth Test day one – live!

  12-09-2019 13:16 via theguardian.com
  County cricket – live! Join Tanya Aldred for the latestThe Spin podcast, with special guest David GowerAny thoughts? Email or tweet @collinsadam12.16pm BST 15th over: England 53-1 (Burns 23, Root 16) Hazlewood’s sixth over of the morning, again trying to get Root playing throughout from the line of the stumps. It’s a good contest, the No3 collecting two to square leg when there’s enough room for him to do so. Perhaps Siddle to follow from that end? They need to manage Haz
  
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• County cricket: Somerset v Yorkshire, Warwickshire v Essex and more – live!

  12-09-2019 13:11 via theguardian.com
  Updates from around the county groundsEngland v Australia: fifth Ashes Test – live!
  And you can email Tanya, tweet her or comment BTL 12.11pm BST Josh Bohannon out for a cracker of a maiden century - I think 174 is a daddy in anyone’s book. My son told me he and his friends had gone down to Old Trafford yesterday after school and that it had been “brilliant.” Lancashire 328-5 and recovering from a mid-morning ravaging by Rampaul: two in two balls - Livingstone for 71 and
  
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• Ashes 2019: Pick your combined England-Australia team

  12-09-2019 11:33 via bbc.co.uk
  As the Ashes draws to a conclusion it's time to pick your combined England and Australia XI.
  
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• NFL hurdling, basketball ejections and a cyclist's imaginary penalty | Classic YouTube

  12-09-2019 11:08 via theguardian.com
  This week’s roundup also features Oval Ashes Test memories, WSL highlights and some spectacular surfing1) The NFL is back, baby, and game of the opening weekend had to be New Orleans Saints’ last-gasp 30-28 victory over Houston Texans. There was an officiating blunder and three scoring plays in the dramatic finale, including a monstrous 58-yard match-winning field goal by Wil Lutz as time expired. Play of the weekend? How about Washington’s Vernon Davis hurdling his way to a 48
  
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• Megan Schutt and Meg Lanning make history in Australia's ODI win

  12-09-2019 01:54 via theguardian.com
  Schutt claims hat-trick; Lanning reaches milestoneEight-wicket win completes 3-0 series sweepMegan Schutt bowled her way into the record books while Meg Lanning became Australia’s leading women’s runscorer as the visitors completed an eight-wicket ODI win over the West Indies in Antigua on Wednesday.The right-arm medium pacer claimed a ODI hat-trick to become the first Australian woman to achieve the feat. Schutt cleaned up the tail in the last three balls of the West Indies innings,
  
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• Sri Lankan cricket board warned over terrorist threat to Pakistan tour

  12-09-2019 00:17 via theguardian.com
  • 10 Sri Lankan players have pulled out over security concerns• Pakistan has not hosted Test since Sri Lanka bus attack in 2009The Sri Lankan cricket board says it has been warned about a possible terrorist threat during its planned tour of Pakistan and called for a reassessment of the security situation before play starts in two weeks.The SLC said in a statement on Wednesday that the Sri Lankan Prime Minister’s Office “has received reliable information of a possible terror
  
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