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• England's top-order solidity has Andrew Strauss thinking of Ashes | Andy Bull

  27-07-2020 19:12
  
  Rory Burns and Dom Sibley appear to have solved a problem that has blighted the Test team since the playing retirement of the former ECB director of cricketIn the end it took England so long to find a new opening batsman that the man they were trying to replace ended up taking on the job of searching himself. So long, in fact, that he had to quit before he had finished.In the eight years since Andrew Strauss retired in 2012, England have tried 18 different openers in 18 combinations. There was A
  
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• Evergreen Stuart Broad can look back to New Zealand in 2008 for inspiration

  27-07-2020 18:39
  
  England can secure first victory from 1-0 down since 2008 seriesHome side well placed to beat West Indies despite weatherThe experts do get it right more often than not in the 21st century, whatever our leaders may say. As the forecasters said would be the case, there was no play at Old Trafford on Monday. So the series has yet to be decided but the strong expectation remains that, weather permitting, England will win it. They need eight more wickets in what is likely to be a maximum of 98 overs
  
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• Broad and England can call on spirit of 2008 in hunt for final-day victory

  27-07-2020 18:39
  
  England are poised to win a Test series after losing the opener for the first time since Broad made an impact 12 years agoThe experts do get it right more often than not in the 21st century, whatever our leaders may say. As the forecasters said would be the case, there was no play at Old Trafford on Monday. So the series has yet to be decided but the strong expectation remains that, weather permitting, England will win it. They need eight more wickets in what is likely to be a maximum of 98 over
  
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• England v West Indies: third Test, day four – as it didn't happen

  27-07-2020 17:23
  
  Constant rain meant that there was no play at Old Trafford, but the weather might be good enough to facilitate a fifth-day finish 4.23pm BST But we should – should – have enough time to get things finished tomorrow. And, of course, we’ll be here with you. Ta-ra.4.22pm BST “Lovely words about the OBO,” says stalwart Pete Salmon. “I sometimes have to remind myself that the players aren’t just doing this to generate content for our community... Just wanted
  
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• England v West Indies: Rain ruins day four of third Test at Emirates Old Trafford

  27-07-2020 17:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Heavy rain prevents any play on day four of the third Test between England and West Indies at Emirates Old Trafford.
  
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• A great read on how plagues change us | Brief letters

  27-07-2020 17:10
  
  Safer singing | Books | Face masks | Cricket | China’s Covid-19 storyEmma Lilley (Letters, 26 July) inquires about humming or vocalising as a way to get back to singing. The master of wordless choral composition was, of course, Frederick Delius. Lilley’s choir might like to investigate the first of Delius’s two part-songs, To Be Sung of a Summer Night on the Water. Ravishing harmonies, but no words!Nick Chadwick Oxford• The book everyone should be reading is William McNeil
  
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• Crowd pilot schemes at The Oval & Edgbaston for Bob Willis Trophy

  27-07-2020 15:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Surrey and Warwickshire can admit crowds of up to 2,500 for the first two days of their opening Bob Willis Trophy fixtures.
  
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• Reece Topley and David Willey in England's ODI squad for Ireland series

  27-07-2020 13:23
  
  Pair make comebacks in 14-man squad for three-match seriesEoin Morgan, Jonny Bairstow and Jason Roy also selectedLeft-arm bowling pair Reece Topley and David Willey are back in England’s one-day squad for the forthcoming series against Ireland.The selectors have named 14 players plus three reserves for the three-match series at the Rose Bowl, drawing on an initial white-ball training group of 24. Topley last played for his country in 2016 and has since endured a host of back injuries that
  
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• Reece Topley and David Willey in England squad for ODIs v Ireland

  27-07-2020 13:23
  
  Pair make comebacks for three-match seriesMorgan, Bairstow and Roy also in 14-man squadLeft-armers Reece Topley and David Willey have made comebacks to England’s one-day squad for the forthcoming series against Ireland.The selectors have named 14 players plus three reserves for the three-match series at the Rose Bowl, drawing on an initial white-ball training group of 24. Topley last played for his country in 2016 and has since endured a host of back injuries that threatened his career, wh
  
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• England v Ireland: David Willey and Reece Topley recalled for ODI series

  27-07-2020 13:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Left-arm seamers David Willey and Reece Topley are named in England's 14-man squad for the three one-day internationals against Ireland.
  
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• England v West Indies: third Test, day four start delayed by rain – live!

  27-07-2020 12:18
  
  All the latest news as the rain delays the start at Emirates Old TraffordWhen West Indies condemned England’s four captains to a 4-0 defeatEmail Tanya with any thoughts | Tweet @tjaldred 11.17am BST I knew someone would be number crunching. Romeo gets there first:“On Nasser Hussain’s comment, I just had a look and by my calculations
  (which could be wrong), Anderson had taken about 40 fewer wickets than
  Broad has when he was the same age Broad is now, so in theory Broad
  could go
  
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• England v West Indies: third Test, day four – live!

  27-07-2020 11:06
  
  All the latest from the 11am BST start at Emirates Old TraffordWhen West Indies condemned England’s four captains to a 4-0 defeatEmail Tanya with any thoughts | Tweet @tjaldred 10.06am BST From a drier area of the country, a lovely piece by Tumaini Carayol on watching cricket at The Oval yesterday. Related: 'It's lovely to be here': county cricket fans return to the Oval Spare a thought for the West Indies players who will soon have to leave this island paradise and head home to the Caribb
  
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