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Stephen Fay obituary

24-05-2020 13:38

Veteran journalist, editor and author who wrote about finance, the arts and cricket In 1956, when the writer and journalist Stephen Fay was just 18 years old, he was invited, along with other recipients of the Beaverbrook scholarship for children of journalists, to lunch by the lord himself. Beaverbrook asked them for their reaction to the Suez crisis. Stephen was the only one to say that it was an extremely bad idea.Despite his tender years, he already refused to be intimidated, a characteristi

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Covid-19 has rocked women's sport but its future remains bright | Sean Ingle

24-05-2020 13:00

Hope and determination abound in professional women’s sport despite the profound challenges brought by coronavirusThe images come from a different time and place: before the sporting world became submerged in sepia and nostalgia, before the great stasis began. Dina Asher-Smith running a bend so geometrically perfect it could have been drawn by a compass before rocketing to the first global sprint title won by a British woman. The MCG swollen with a record 86,174 crowd watching Australia&rs

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Covid-19 has rocked women's sport but its future remains bright

24-05-2020 13:00

Hope and determination abound throughout professional women’s sport despite the profound challenges brought by the coronavirus pandemicThe images come from a different time and place: before the sporting world became submerged in sepia and nostalgia, before the great stasis began. Dina Asher-Smith running a bend so geometrically perfect it could have been drawn by a compass before rocketing to the first global sprint title won by a British woman. The MCG swollen with a record 86,174 crowd

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Quiz: Order women's cricket teams & players by their ICC ranking

24-05-2020 11:19 via bbc.co.uk

Think you're a women's cricket expert? Test your knowledge in our fun quiz.

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