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• Ashton Agar's hat-trick inspires Australia to South Africa T20 romp

  21-02-2020 21:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Spinner finishes with 5-24 in Cape TownSouth Africa record lowest T20 scoreAshton Agar took a hat-trick as Australia thumped South Africa by 107 runs in the first Twenty20 on Friday, showing absolutely no signs of hesitancy in their first game back in the country following the embarrassing ball-tampering scandal of 2018.Agar nearly had a double hat-trick when he took two in two balls later on. The left-arm spinner finished with brilliant figures of 5-24 as South Africa crumbled to 89 all out &nd
  
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• Moises Henriques: Essex sign Australia all-rounder for T20 Blast

  21-02-2020 16:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Essex Eagles sign Australia all-rounder Moises Henriques for the defence of their T20 Blast title.
  
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• Women's T20 World Cup highlights: Poonam Yadav claims 4-19 as India stun hosts Australia

  21-02-2020 14:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Poonam Yadav claims 4-19 as India stun hosts Australia in the opening game of the Women's T20 World Cup in Sydney.
  
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• Felix Organ: Hampshire batsman signs contract extension

  21-02-2020 13:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hampshire's 20-year-old opening batsman Felix Organ extends his contract with the county.
  
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• Women's T20 World Cup 2020 - fixtures, results and scorecards

  21-02-2020 12:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fixtures, results, reports and scorecards from the seventh edition of the Women's T20 World Cup, held in Australia in February and March 2020.
  
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• Mitchell Marsh: Middlesex sign Australia all-rounder for T20 Blast

  21-02-2020 12:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Middlesex sign Australia all-rounder Mitchell Marsh for this season's T20 Blast campaign.
  
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• Women's T20 World Cup: Australia stunned by India in Sydney

  21-02-2020 12:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  India beat hosts and favourites Australia by 17 runs in the opening match of the Women's T20 World Cup in Sydney.
  
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• India beat Australia by 17 runs: Women's T20 World Cup opener – as it happened

  21-02-2020 12:27 via theguardian.com
  
  India 132-4; Australia 115 (19.5 overs) | India win by 17 runsPlayer of the match Poonam Yadav stuns hosts with 4-19 11.27am GMT That’s all from the Sydney Showgrounds. What a thrilling start to this Women’s T20 World Cup with India triumphant. Thanks for your company. Bye for now! Related: Australia bamboozled by Poonam Yadav as India cause upset in T20 World Cup opener11.25am GMT Harmanpreet Kaur speaks. She says they wanted 140 on a slow track and were short of that but were not t
  
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• India beat Australia by 17 runs: Women's T20 World Cup opener – live!

  21-02-2020 12:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Updates from the tournament opener in SydneyAny thoughts? Email or tweet @collinsadam 11.25am GMT Harmanpreet Kaur speaks. She says they wanted 140 on a slow track and were short of that but were not too worried with 132 if their bowlers delivered, which thye did. A lot of praise for Poonam, who has returned from injury to be a matchwinner tonight. The skipper believes they can win the Cup. What a victory!11.23am GMT Meg Lanning speaks. She credits her bowlers for bringing it back after India go
  
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• Australia bamboozled by Yadav as India cause upset in T20 World Cup opener

  21-02-2020 12:25 via theguardian.com
  
  India 132-4; Australia 115 (19.5 overs) | India win by 17 runsPoonam Yadav (4-19) sparks Australian collapse in SydneyIndia stunned Australia by 17 runs to leave the hosts’ Twenty20 World Cup title defence hanging by a thread after the opening night, as Alyssa Healy’s return to form was immaterial.In front of a record Australian crowd of 13,432 for a stand-alone women’s match, the hosts lost 4-15 midway through their innings to slump to the shock defeat on Friday. Related:
  
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• Australia bamboozled by Poonam Yadav as India cause upset in T20 World Cup opener

  21-02-2020 12:25 via theguardian.com
  
  India 132-4; Australia 115 (19.5 overs) | India win by 17 runsPoonam Yadav (4-19) sparks Australian collapse in SydneyIndia stunned Australia by 17 runs to leave the hosts’ Twenty20 World Cup title defence hanging by a thread after the opening night, as Alyssa Healy’s return to form was immaterial.In front of a record Australian crowd of 13,432 for a stand-alone women’s match, the hosts lost 4-15 midway through their innings to slump to the shock defeat on Friday. Related:
  
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• Women's T20 World Cup: Poonam Yadav rips through Australia with back-to-back wickets

  21-02-2020 11:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hosts Australia lose Rachael Haynes and Ellyse Perry in successive balls as India's Poonam Yadav takes back-to back wickets in a thrilling opening game at the Women's T20 World Cup.
  
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• Australia chasing 133 to beat India: Women's T20 World Cup opener – live!

  21-02-2020 10:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Updates from the tournament opener in SydneyAny thoughts? Email or tweet @collinsadam 9.38am GMT The players are back on the field! Spin to begin: the experienced Deepti Sharma has the ball in her hand with Alyssa Healy taking the first delivery. She’s there with the ever-reliable Beth Mooney. PLAY! 9.30am GMT That wasn’t a good finish. Remember, India were 0/40 after four overs. Yes, they lost 3/9 in a hurry and were in strife; they had to rebuild. But they waited too long to pull t
  
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• Women's T20 World Cup: Australia's Alyssa Healy removes India's Harmanpreet Kaur

  21-02-2020 09:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Australia receive a stroke of fortune as Alyssa Healy fumbles a stumping chance but the ball ricochets off her pads and into the stumps with Harmanpreet Kaur out of her ground.
  
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• Women's T20 World Cup: Shafali Verma, 16, hits first six of tournament

  21-02-2020 09:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sixteen-year-old Shafali Verma hits the first six of the Women's T20 World Cup for India against hosts Australia.
  
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• Australia v India: Women's Twenty20 World Cup opener – live!

  21-02-2020 08:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Updates from the tournament opener in SydneyAny thoughts? Email or tweet @collinsadam 7.21am GMT This tournament, now into its seventh iteration, has been a long time in the making. Australia have won it four times but never played host, which changes tonight when they take the field against India in the first of 20 group games. The prize for the locals is more than the trophy alone on this occasion: to advance to the final would be to turn out in front of 91,000 spectators when the final is pla
  
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• 'I don't have his number': David Warner has no plans to clear air with Quinton de Kock

  21-02-2020 00:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Pair clashed in stairwell during bitter 2018 Test seriesHostile crowd expected at Wanderers for first T20David Warner has no intention of clearing the air with Quinton de Kock after their stairwell clash during Australia’s last visit to South Africa, but both men have played down the likelihood of tensions reigniting between the two nations.Warner and De Kock delivered one of the ugliest moments of a bitter Test series in 2018 when they squared off on a staircase after play in Durban. The
  
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