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• Let nerves jangle and adrenaline flow: the first Test of summer is here | Vic Marks

  07-07-2020 22:00
  
  The ECB and the West Indies deserve praise on the eve of the three-Test series, now it’s up to the players to put on a showAgainst the odds, the first Test match of the 2020 summer is upon us. Let us hope that in years to come the six Tests against the West Indies and Pakistan become a quiz question: what was odd about them? The only Test matches in history ever to take place behind closed doors. At the moment it requires a bit of optimism to think that will be the case.At the outset we sh
  
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• Let nerves jangle and adrenaline flow: the first Test of summer is here

  07-07-2020 22:00
  
  The ECB and the West Indies deserve praise on the eve of the three-Test series, now it’s up to the players to put on a showAgainst the odds the first Test match of the 2020 summer is upon us. Let us hope that in years to come the six Tests against the West Indies and Pakistan become a quiz question: what was odd about them? The only Test matches in history ever to take place behind closed doors. At the moment it requires a bit of optimism to think that will be the case. Related: England ha
  
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• Cricket: A pigeon flies into BBC cricket commentator Alison Mitchell's room

  07-07-2020 21:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC cricket commentator Alison Mitchell is alarmed to find a pigeon has flown in to her room, joking "I'm not sure he's got accreditation!".
  
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• England's Wood poised for West Indies Test with Broad set to miss out

  07-07-2020 20:40
  
  Veteran Stuart Broad has not missed a home Test since 2012Captain Ben Stokes ‘so excited’ with Mark Wood’s formBen Stokes warned his players there can be no excuses about a lack of intensity in Wednesday’s landmark first Test against West Indies, with England poised to leave Stuart Broad out of their XI and opt for more pace.The series opener in Southampton represents the return of Test cricket after more than four months and follows a huge operation by the England and Wa
  
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• England v West Indies: Ben Stokes ready for 'massive occasion'

  07-07-2020 20:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Stand-in captain Ben Stokes says England are ready for the "massive occasion" of the first Test against West Indies, which starts on Wednesday.
  
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• ECB to mandate boardroom diversity as Eni Aluko urges football to follow suit

  07-07-2020 20:08
  
  ECB tells boards to increase ethnic diversity ‘as soon as possible’Aluko calls on football to take similar action in evidence to MPsThe England and Wales Cricket Board announced plans to mandate black, Asian and minority ethnic inclusion at boardroom level across the game on the same day Eni Aluko, in evidence to MPs, called on football to do the same.Arguing cricket had some “very difficult truths to face” about its lack of engagement with the African-Caribbean community
  
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• ECB orders cricket to increase ethnic diversity in boardrooms across the sport

  07-07-2020 20:08
  
  ‘We realise there is a great deal more to do,’ says ECBEni Aluko calls on football to follow suitThe England and Wales Cricket Board announced plans to mandate black, Asian and minority ethnic inclusion at boardroom level across the game on the same day Eni Aluko called on football to do the same in evidence to MPs.Arguing that cricket had some “very difficult truths to face” about its lack of engagement with the African-Caribbean community, the ECB chief executive, Tom H
  
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• England and Wales Cricket Board broadens diversity action plan

  07-07-2020 17:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Increased representation in leadership roles, an anti-discrimination charter and a bursary scheme for young black coaches are among initiatives announced by the ECB.
  
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• Ben Stokes looking forward to the 'challenge' of captaining England

  07-07-2020 17:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ben Stokes, who captains England for the first Test against West Indies in place of Joe Root, says he is looking forward to the "challenge".
  
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• The Spin | Tim Killick, the bespectacled rogue who got clattered for 34 in an over

  07-07-2020 15:26
  
  He was revered by peers but has remained notorious for being on the wrong end of Ted Alletson and brushes with the lawOn this week in 1910, precisely 110 years ago, Ernest Killick, universally known as Tim, took seven wickets for 10 runs in 7.2 overs while playing for Sussex in a County Championship match against Essex. The circumstances were unusual, Essex going for fast runs in an unsuccessful effort to force victory, but the achievement wasn’t unique.
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• Cricket's new landscape could mean less is more for Test matches | Jonathan Liew

  07-07-2020 09:00
  
  Longest form of the game returns in England on Wednesday with the sport looking very different but with an opportunity to make some noise despite the silence
  Great news out of South Africa: 3 Team Cricket, the newest format of the game in which three teams play each other simultaneously, finally has a launch date. The inaugural 3TC event – featuring eight-man sides captained by AB de Villiers, Kagiso Rabada and Quinton de Kock – will be held at Pretoria’s SuperSport Park on 18
  
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• England v West Indies: Brian Lara says tourists must try to win in four days

  07-07-2020 08:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  West Indies must try and win the Tests against England in four days, says legendary batsman Brian Lara.
  
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