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• Kagiso Rabada: ‘I’ve lost control in the past but I’m more mature now’

  23-12-2019 22:00
  
  The South Africa quick says he has put past controversies behind him as he prepares for the first Test against England on Boxing Day“Sometimes you do think of physically hurting the opposition with the ball,” Kagiso Rabada says, matter of factly, as he explains what sets the greatest exponents of his art apart. South Africa’s 24-year-old fast bowler, who became the youngest player to be ranked No 1 in the world two years ago, has all the attributes necessary to be one of them.A
  
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• Teenager Naseem Shah bowls Pakistan to Test series victory over Sri Lanka

  23-12-2019 16:28
  
  • He is second youngest player to take five wickets in Test innings
  • It is Pakistan’s first home Test series win since 2006Pakistan needed only 16 balls on the final morning to beat Sri Lanka by 263 runs in Karachi and complete their first Test series victory on home soil for 13 years.The 16-year-old Naseem Shah took five for 13 to become the second youngest player to take five wickets in a Test innings as the tourists, chasing 476, were dismissed for 212 in the second Test. His
  
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• Sixteen-year-old Shah bowls Pakistan to first home Test series win since 2006

  23-12-2019 16:28
  
  • He is second youngest player to take five wickets in Test innings
  • Pakistan seal 263-run victory in second Test top seal series 1-0Pakistan needed only 16 balls on the final morning to beat Sri Lanka by 263 runs in Karachi and complete their first Test series victory on home soil for 13 years.The 16-year-old Naseem Shah took five for 13 to become the second youngest player to take five wickets in a Test innings as the tourists, chasing 476, were dismissed for 212 in the second Test.
  
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• Shah, only 16, bowls Pakistan to first home Test series win since 2006

  23-12-2019 16:28
  
  • He is second youngest player to take five wickets in Test innings
  • Pakistan seal 263-run victory in second Test top seal series 1-0Pakistan needed only 16 balls on the final morning to beat Sri Lanka by 263 runs in Karachi and complete their first Test series victory on home soil for 13 years.The 16-year-old Naseem Shah took five for 13 to become the second youngest player to take five wickets in a Test innings as the tourists, chasing 476, were dismissed for 212 in the second Test.
  
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• Peter Hain ‘Stopping South Africa’s rugby and cricket teams hit them right in the gut’

  23-12-2019 14:12
  
  Peter Hain was 19 when he realised sport was the way to bring down apartheid in South Africa – a fight captured in a powerful documentary called Stop the Tour“I was a source of great hatred,” Peter Hain says with a wry smile as he remembers how, 50 years ago this month, he led passionate anti-apartheid protests against the Springbok rugby tour of Britain and Ireland. “I was seen as a traitor by South Africa’s white volk [people] and the newspapers described me as pu
  
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• Jaw-dropping sport moments of 2019: England win the Cricket World Cup

  23-12-2019 12:00
  
  The finish combined drama and terror, outrageous reversals of fortune and the utter confusion of a dead heat after a dead heatFive months on I can still remember all of it. But never all of it at once. It returns, instead, in fickle flashes and brief bolts. Martin Guptill knocks the ball to midwicket and scampers for a run. England need 15 to win off four balls. The sunlight is golden and glorious. Ben Stokes slides desperately for his ground, bat outstretched. New Zealand win the toss and bat.
  
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• Cricket Australia expects bushfire smoke to be an issue in Sydney Test

  23-12-2019 05:02
  
  A Big Bash match has already been lost due to smoke haze‘It’s a growing issue that we’re seeing around the country’Cricket Australia is preparing for smoke from bushfires to impact play during Sydney’s New Year’s Test match between Australia and New Zealand.On Saturday, a Big Bash League fixture in Canberra was abandoned because of poor air quality. Reduced visibility on the field, caused by smoke from the bushfires currently ravaging parts of NSW, is the prim
  
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• 'We know where we went wrong': MCG curator tips lively Boxing Day pitch

  23-12-2019 03:02
  
  All eyes on Boxing Day Test pitch after Sheffield Shield debacleMatt Page is confident surface will produce ‘exciting cricket’Head curator Matt Page has vowed to continue pushing the boundaries in a bid to produce a lively MCG pitch for the Boxing Day Test. The much-maligned wicket took a huge hit earlier this month when a Sheffield Shield match was abandoned because of player safety fears on a surface that the MCC later conceded had contained too much moisture.But the former Waca cu
  
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