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• County cricket: Somerset storm to victory over Northants – as it happened

  09-08-2020 20:24
  
  Somerset saw off Northants inside two days, as Jamie Overton and Jack Brooks both take four wickets in the final innings 8.09pm BST The Somerset cider wagon has started to roll, after a victory within two days at Northamptonshire’s County Ground. They dismissed the hosts for 154 in their second innings on a pitch with somewhat haphazard bounce – some shooting low, others grazing the eyebrows. It had been a topsy-turvy game throughout, and Sunday was no different. The day belonged to
  
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• Bob Willis Trophy, county cricket: Somerset storm to victory over Northants

  09-08-2020 20:24
  
  Somerset saw off Northants inside two days, as Jamie Overton and Jack Brooks both take four wickets in the final innings 7.24pm BST Congratulations Somerset on a rollicking win - they know how to do it in style. Those Overton boys - just shows England’s strength in bowling, that neither of them have managed to hold down a regular spot. Otherwise, good days for Notts’ and Glamorgan’s batsmen and you can’t write that very often. Brilliant too from Jordan Cox, and Wayne Mads
  
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• First course promises a Test series to savour even without Ben Stokes

  09-08-2020 19:00
  
  Pakistan contributed to a brilliant first Test and the next two promise more of the same even if England have selection problems to ponder, although no longer behind the stumpsWe had no right to expect such enthralling drama in what we assumed would be the most sterile of settings this summer. The West Indies series made for good viewing (and listening) but this was better. The England and Pakistan players at Old Trafford were utterly committed in a deserted stadium, the quality of some of the c
  
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• Azhar Ali's captaincy faces big test with only a few days to rally Pakistan

  09-08-2020 16:09
  
  With the second Test coming so soon after the first, Azhar must remind his players that they dominated England for the majority of the match at Old TraffordBy reputation, Pakistan are a chaotic and unpredictable team. The journalist Osman Samiuddin, who has spent years trying to make sense of them, once wrote a brilliant essay about those glorious moments when the players would sense something coming, would slip all of sudden into a higher gear, and inexorably wrest control of a game away from t
  
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• Ben Stokes: England all-rounder to miss remainder of Pakistan series

  09-08-2020 15:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England all-rounder Ben Stokes will miss the remainder of the Test series against Pakistan for family reasons, it has been announced.
  
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• Ben Stokes ruled out of rest of Pakistan series due to family reasons

  09-08-2020 14:52
  
  • England all-rounder will fly to New Zealand this week
  • Stokes to miss two remaining Tests in SouthamptonBen Stokes has withdrawn from the remainder of England’s Test series against Pakistan for unspecified family reasons, with the all-rounder due to join his parents in New Zealand later this week.England’s vice-captain has already had a huge impact on the summer thus far, leading the side against West Indies in Southampton and then helping set up the 2-1 series vcitory b
  
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• UK catering firm cuts jobs, saying Covid-19 may mean no sport crowds until 2021

  09-08-2020 12:47
  
  Premier League caterer Levy UK told casual staff ‘no prospect’ of catered events this yearCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe world’s largest catering firm is to lay off casual staff after raising doubts over whether crowds will be able to fully return to sporting events such as Premier League football this year.Boris Johnson said in July that he expected large scale events to resume as early as 1 October, with the sport minister, Nigel Huddles
  
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• Bob Willis Trophy, county cricket: Northants v Somerset and more – live!

  09-08-2020 12:02
  
  Live updates from Sunday’s play around the groundsEngland’s capacity for unlikely victory can leave you lost for wordsDrop Tanya an email | Tweet @tjaldred11.02am BST And so it continues - Tom Abell caught behind in the first over of the day. Somerset 15-2. We need Kim Thonger’s son Tom’s with a report from the bathroom. 10.53am BST Some morning reading to wallow in:A superb piece by Andy Bull: Related: England's capacity for an unlikely victory can leave you lost for wor
  
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