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• World Test Championship final hinges on England playing this summer

  23-04-2020 21:46
  
  WTC qualifiers need to have completed six Test series‘If England fall three series behind, it’s done’The prospect of the inaugural World Test Championship (WTC) final taking place in 2021 will hinge on whether England can salvage a cricket season this year and get their home series against West Indies and Pakistan played.The International Cricket Council announced on Thursday that, following a conference call with its various national chief executives in response to the Covid-1
  
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• Middlesex opt to furlough players and staff amid coronavirus pandemic

  23-04-2020 19:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Middlesex become the latest county to furlough players and staff amid the coronavirus pandemic and delayed domestic season.
  
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• Peter Siddle: Australian paceman delays Essex return until 2021

  23-04-2020 16:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former Australia fast bowler Peter Siddle postpones his return to Essex until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Men's T20 World Cup and Women's 50-over World Cup plans ongoing - ICC

  23-04-2020 16:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Plans to stage the men's T20 World Cup and women's 50-over World Cup are going ahead as scheduled according the International Cricket Council (ICC).
  
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• From football to F1: when will sports fans be able to see live action again?

  23-04-2020 14:23
  
  Live Saturday afternoon football could be back on our screens in mid-May and horse racing may soon follow but other sports face a slower returnThe Premier League, which is suggesting a maximum of seven weeks to complete 92 matches, has set a tentative restart date of 13-14 June. The Football League’s proposed schedule is 56 days with 16 May the earliest requirement of players to return to training. Uefa’s executive committee has reportedly decided on Thursday that if leagues do not f
  
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• Enid Bakewell: 'I accidentally played cricket while six months pregnant'

  23-04-2020 13:30
  
  One of the all-time great all-rounders talks about playing for England, lockdown and getting herself out on purpose at Lord’sBy Raf Nicholson for The Pinch HitterEnid Bakewell has a strong claim to being the finest female all-rounder England has ever produced. Across 12 Tests and 23 ODIs for her country between 1968 and 1982, she made six international centuries and took 75 wickets with her left-arm spin. Bakewell was inducted into the ICC’s Hall of Fame in 2012 and was awarded an MB
  
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• My favourite game: Piers Morgan v Brett Lee, December 2013 | Russell Cunningham

  23-04-2020 13:00
  
  My respect for the hack blossomed after watching him face a ferocious over and live to tell the tale
  Say what you like about Piers Morgan, the man’s got balls. Kookaburras, no doubt. None of your soft Ooh-Jimmy-and-Duke-under-English-cloud nonsense. Strictly the right stuff here, for a batsman on a hiding to nothing.Morgan is now the man who owns breakfast as Good Morning Britain co-host with Susanna Reid, the duo presenting must-see telly during the coronavirus pandemic. But until a Decem
  
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• Experimentation may be the only option in this stalled summer of English cricket | Vic Marks

  23-04-2020 09:00
  
  Cricket fans only want good a scorecard to pore over but that seems far away, two weeks into what should be the new seasonThe talk is of misconduct, match-fixing, potential bankruptcies and tour cancellations when after two weeks of blissful sunshine at the start of the season we expected to be discussing Jimmy’s rib, Jofra’s elbow, Jos in the IPL and Joe’s inability to consolidate an innings. (I was thinking of Denly but let’s toss in Root as well for a better headline.)
  
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