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• Morrison's smoke and mirrors can't hide cricket's place in climate crisis

  13-12-2019 20:00
  
  While bushfire smoke and extreme heat disrupt matches in Australia, the prime minister must offer more than photocalls In the last week of October, Scott Morrison got more involved with the Prime Minister’s XI match than most who have held the office. While the home team took on a touring Sri Lankan side, Morrison spent a Canberra evening running out drink bottles to the players for some good wholesome everyman sporting photo opportunities.Before the season’s first Test in November h
  
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• Joe Root left out of England's T20 squad to face South Africa

  13-12-2019 14:04
  
  England Test skipper will play in 50-over matchesAll other senior players are back in the T20 squadJoe Root has been omitted from England’s T20 squad to play against South Africa in February after the Test series. This is likely to provoke mixed feelings for England’s Test captain, who offered a timely reminder of his red-ball credentials with his double century against New Zealand in Hamilton earlier this month.Root, who is selected for the 50-over matches in South Africa, may well
  
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• Steve Smith makes stunning catch as Australia boss New Zealand

  13-12-2019 13:46
  
  Australia 416; New Zealand 109-5Hosts lead by 307 runs after second day of first TestSteve Smith took a spectacular catch and Mitchell Starc claimed four wickets as New Zealand slumped to 109 for five, after Josh Hazlewood’s hamstring injury soured Australia’s dream night in Perth.After Starc and Hazlewood had the Black Caps struggling at 1-2 under lights in reply to their 416, Australia hit a hurdle when Hazlewood limped off injured. The tall fast bowler was immediately sent for sca
  
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• Steve Smith makes stunning catch as Australia boss Black Caps

  13-12-2019 13:46
  
  Australia 416; New Zealand 109-5Hosts lead by 307 runs after second day of first TestSteve Smith took a spectacular catch and Mitchell Starc claimed four wickets as New Zealand slumped to 109-5, after Josh Hazlewood’s hamstring injury soured Australia’s dream night in Perth.After Starc and Hazlewood had the Black Caps struggling at 1-2 under lights in reply to their 416, Australia hit a hurdle when Hazlewood limped off injured. The tall quick was immediately sent for scans and Austra
  
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• Australia v New Zealand: first Test, day two – as it happened

  13-12-2019 13:36
  
  Steve Smith took a superhuman catch and Mitchell Starc claimed four wickets as New Zealand slumped in reply to the hosts 12.48pm GMTRelated: Steve Smith makes stunning catch as Australia boss Black Caps12.36pm GMT New Zealand trail by 307 runs. Needless to say, they are in a world of pain if they don’t have a perfect first session tomorrow - then some. We’ll be back for that, as always, on the OBO! Goodbye for now.12.35pm GMT Starc is on telly. Knew to go straight at the stumps when
  
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• Ben Stokes overwhelming favourite to win Sports Personality of the Year

  13-12-2019 13:07
  
  World Cup final and Headingley Ashes win make Stokes odds-onDina Asher-Smith second on list after World Championship goldThere will be another public vote this weekend. On Sunday night, the BBC will announce its Sports Personality of the Year with Ben Stokes the overwhelming favourite to take the prize after a summer of cricketing heroics.In the 65th year of the award, he is joined by five other athletes who each have strong claims themselves, after another impressive year for British sport. Rel
  
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• Australia v New Zealand: first Test, day two – live!

  13-12-2019 05:45
  
  Updates from the second day of play at Optus StadiumAny updates? Email or tweet @GeoffLemonSport 4.39am GMT Strewth, cobbers. Time for another fair dinkum true blue session of dinky-di Test cricket from rolled gold Perth Stadium. Hear the serried banks of sandgropers chanting “Labuschagne! Labuschagne!” Are sandgropers the Western Australian ones? I can never remember. It sounds fairly indecent in any case. Keep that behaviour off our beaches. Never mind. They’re Labuschagne fr
  
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