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• Chris Silverwood to return early from New Zealand due to family bereavement

  26-11-2019 20:05
  
  • Coach to depart on day two of second Test in what is his first tour
  • Ashley Giles backs Joe Root despite captain’s batting strugglesChris Silverwood, on his first tour as England’s head coach, will fly home after day two of the upcoming second Test in New Zealand following a family bereavement.The news is a further setback in a two-match series that the tourists can now only draw following the innings-defeat in Mount Maunganui and comes after the director of cricket, Ash
  
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• Jofra Archer backed to perform under the brightest spotlight of his career

  26-11-2019 19:00
  
  Jason Gillespie says England paceman will put racial abuse he reported ‘to one side’ in the second Test against New ZealandJofra Archer heads into the second Test against New Zealand on Thursday after the toughest week of his fledgling international career and with an already bright spotlight on him having increased as a result of reporting racial abuse.New Zealand Cricket was still investigating the incident on Tuesday after Archer tweeted that he had been the target of a racial slu
  
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• Ashley Giles backs Joe Root as England captain despite batting struggles

  26-11-2019 19:00
  
  • Giles hoping Chris Silverwood can relieve pressure on Root
  • Captain drops out of top 10 Test batting rankingsAshley Giles has accepted the statistics back up the notion that Test captaincy has affected Joe Root’s batting after he dropped out of the world’s top 10 in the latest rankings. But England’s director of cricket is still expecting a turnaround, with Chris Silverwood’s role as head coach the key.Root goes into the second Test against New Zealand on Thu
  
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• Domestic calendar makes Test selectors’ task harder with The Hundred centre stage | Vic Marks

  26-11-2019 18:31
  
  There will be only three rounds of matches next year in the three months that constitute high summer, offering few chances for those seeking to break into Joe Root’s teamOne day after a numbing, naive innings defeat against New Zealand the impetus for England to become as effective with a red ball as they are with a white one is surely redoubled. Joe Root’s team were ultimately thrashed on a true, hard, unyielding pitch upon which the Kookaburra ball seldom deviated.Often the conditi
  
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• Domestic calendar makes Test selectors’ task harder with Hundred centre stage | Vic Marks

  26-11-2019 18:31
  
  There will be only three rounds of matches next year in the three months that constitute high summer, offering few chances for those seeking to break into Joe Root’s teamOne day after a numbing, naive innings defeat against New Zealand the impetus for England to become as effective with a red ball as they are with a white one is surely redoubled. Joe Root’s team were ultimately thrashed on a true, hard, unyielding pitch upon which the Kookaburra ball seldom deviated.Often the conditi
  
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• The Spin | Alfred Mynn: a cricketing colossus who fell foul of the amateur code

  26-11-2019 13:15
  
  Remembering a great on the anniversary of the day cricket scrapped the distinction between amateurs and professionals It was on this day in 1962 that the Advisory County Cricket Committee decided to scrap the distinction between amateurs and professionals and henceforth refer to all cricketers simply as “cricketers”. The tradition had long since ceased to be meaningful – the word “shamateurism” had already been in use for nearly 80 years – but that decision ma
  
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• The Hundred fixtures: Oval Invincibles host Welsh Fire in inaugural game

  26-11-2019 08:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Oval Invincibles will take on Welsh Fire in the inaugural match of The Hundred at The Oval on Friday, 17 July.
  
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• Oval Invincibles v Welsh Fire to start The Hundred next season

  26-11-2019 08:00
  
  • ECB’s new competition to dominate high-summer calendar
  • Full fixture list announced for all domestic cricket fixturesThe Oval Invincibles and the Welsh Fire will open the batting on 17 July next year for The Hundred, the England and Wales Cricket Board’s controversial new competition that will dominate the sport in high summer.The ECB’s domestic cricket revolution culminates a month later in a finals weekend at venues yet to be announced for the men’s and wom
  
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• Steve Smith fired up by first Test failure and Pakistan's send-off

  26-11-2019 06:51
  
  Yasir Shah’s celebration motivates AustralianTwo sides meet again in second Test on FridayA year out made Steve Smith run-hungry, but a cheap out and a send-off has made him plain ravenous. Pakistani Yasir Shah’s pointed celebration at dismissing Australia’s star batsman in the series-opener has spiked Smith’s motivation for the second Test starting on Friday in Adelaide.Shah raised seven fingers, denoting the number of times he has got Smith out in Test cricket, in an ac
  
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• Cricket union seeks to get Emily Smith's WBBL ban reduced

  26-11-2019 04:17
  
  ACA want 12-month suspension fully suspendedHurricanes keeper banned for posting line-up onlineThe Australian Cricketers’ Association will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday to explore potential ways they could support suspended Hobart Hurricanes wicketkeeper Emily Smith. The 24-year-old last week received a one-year ban, with nine months suspended, for posting a team line-up on her Instagram account, an hour before it was officially released by her team for the WBBL clash with Sydney Th
  
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• 'Utterly disgusting': New Zealand denounces racist abuse of Jofra Archer

  26-11-2019 02:03
  
  The English fast bowler said he was racially abused at a match in Mount ManganuiThe New Zealand race relations commissioner Meng Foon has labelled racist abuse of English bowler Jofra Archer on Monday “utterly disgusting”, as the country’s minister for sports also condemned the incident.“It’s not a good look for New Zealand, anytime we hurl abuse at visiting athletes and our local sportspeople. It really is disappointing. I commend Jofra Archer for being brave enoug
  
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