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• UK government warns sport not to expect quick return to action

  29-04-2020 20:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Premier League among organisations meeting DCMS on FridayNo relaxation of guidelines for sport until 7 May at earliestThe prospects of sport being given the green light to restart behind closed doors when it meets the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and Public Health England on Friday have been heavily played down – with those involved in the talks saying any such move is at least a week away.It is understood that any potential relaxations for the Premier League, horse raci
  
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• Unexpected timeout offers global sport chance to tackle its pollution problem | Tanya Aldred

  29-04-2020 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Sustainability is already on the agenda and it needs to be in a country that sends three cricket teams on tour every winterWith no live sport to watch or play, exercise has never been more precious. Those minutes of freedom, an uncurling away from bad posture on the sofa, lifting the spirits and boosting the heart rate. But, as you slurp your morning lungfuls of air, have your noticed a change? Think the sky has looked a more perfect cornflower, noticed the stars shining a little brighter?You wo
  
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• Australian sport's shaky financial foundations exposed by Covid-19 spotlight | Scott Heinrich

  29-04-2020 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  We thought sport in Australia was rich, but in reality it has been living pay cheque to pay chequeThe chickens they are a-roosting. Covid-19 has claimed many things in its dastardly travails – lives, jobs, a common sense of security – and it might well add Australian sport to its list of casualties. Not in the sense that it is gone. But the chronology of the way top-level sport is administered in this country will reveal it as having two identities: one pre-coronavirus, the other pos
  
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• BBC Sport Quarantine Quiz: Stuart Broad recalls Mollie King's first visit to Lord's

  29-04-2020 17:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England cricketer Stuart Broad reveals what happened when his girlfriend and BBC Radio 1 presenter Mollie King first watched him play cricket.
  
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• Stuart Broad: Cricket will take 'no risks' when returning to play

  29-04-2020 16:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England bowler Stuart Broad tells BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast a return to playing cricket "still feels a long way away" and the sport will take "no risks".
  
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• 'We want the best players to come': Moeen Ali backs delaying of Hundred

  29-04-2020 13:53 via theguardian.com
  
  All-rounder believes cricket this summer is unlikelyMoeen believes overseas players vital to Hundred’s successMoeen Ali insists the coronavirus pandemic would have to “drastically” improve for cricket to be played this summer and so is fully behind the Hundred’s expected 12-month postponement.The England and Wales Cricket Board has said no professional matches can be staged before 1 July at the earliest and, with internationals and the T20 Blast prioritised in the event o
  
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• Moeen Ali backs delaying launch of the Hundred until 2021

  29-04-2020 13:53 via theguardian.com
  
  • ‘Too much to squeeze it in at end of season’, says all-rounder• Moeen believes overseas players are vital to Hundred’s successMoeen Ali has endorsed postponing the Hundred this year, reasoning that the England and Wales Cricket Board’s flagship competition is too important to be diluted because of current world events. The ECB last week called a halt to all cricket until 1 July at the earliest because of coronavirus while the board is set to convene on Wednesd
  
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• The Hundred: Moeen Ali says tournament should be postponed until 2021

  29-04-2020 13:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England all-rounder Moeen Ali believes it would be the right decision for the launch of The Hundred to be postponed.
  
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• Cricket quiz: England in the 1990s

  29-04-2020 10:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Who scored? Who misspoke? Who was ‘the prat without a hat’?Which England batsman was the world’s leading Test runscorer in the 1990s?Alec StewartMike Atherton Graham Gooch Graham Thorpe Devon Malcolm made South Africa history by taking 9/57 at the Oval in 1994. Who picked up the other wicket?Phil DeFreitas Joey Benjamin Martin McCague Darren Gough The BBC cut away from the cricket just before Graham Gooch reached a triple-hundred against India at Lord’s in 1990. What were
  
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• Chance To Shine: Cricket charity keeps coaching sessions running for home-school pupils

  29-04-2020 10:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How cricket charity Chance to Shine is helping to keep school children in touch with the game during the coronavirus lockdown.
  
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