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• T20 Blast: Notts and Lancashire still neck and neck as Worcestershire lose again, plus round-up

  04-09-2020 23:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Notts and Lancashire win to remain neck and neck at the top of T20 Blast North Group, while Worcestershire lose to Gloucestershire.
  
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• England v Australia: Hosts produce remarkable fightback to win first T20

  04-09-2020 23:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England pull off a remarkable fightback to beat Australia by two runs in a thrilling first Twenty20 international at the Ageas Bowl.
  
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• England win T20 thriller after Australia throw away golden chance

  04-09-2020 23:23
  
  England 162-7, Australia 160-6; England win by two runsWarner and Finch put Australia on target before collapseIt seemed the sort of match when it was safe for the viewer to pop out to the kitchen for a cup of tea without missing anything crucial. At an empty, noisy stadium with the music system lurching into action after every boundary, the old firm of Aaron Finch and David Warner went about their business as if they had been playing regular cricket for the past few months.They compiled a clini
  
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• England beat Australia by two runs to win first T20 international – as it happened

  04-09-2020 22:52
  
  Australia threw away a golden chance for victory as England conjured a late turnaround at the Ageas Bowl 9.49pm BST Who dares doubt Eoin Morgan? With a bunch of begonias and a hanky, he pulled the rabbit from the hat.Common-sense from Kevin Pietersen, who thinks that Australia were brilliant, considering they’ve not played since March. Nasser is not so sympathetic!. When Australia restricted England to 162, they seemed on top. When they were 91-0 off 10, it seemed a foregone conclusion. Bu
  
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• England beat Australia by two runs to win first T20 international – live!

  04-09-2020 22:34
  
  Over-by-over updates, play starts at 6pm BSTYorkshire investigate Azeem Rafiq’s racism claimsAnd send your thoughts to Tanya on email or Twitter 9.34pm BST 20th over: Australia 158-6 ( Cummins 0, Stoinis 21) Stoinis makes contact at last, but too late, a booming six off Curran, over long-off and into the seats. A couple of twos, and Stoinis needs a six off the last ball! He can’t manage to deposit a steely yorker from Tom Curran and that is a sensational England win by two runs!9.29p
  
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• England set Australia 163 to win first T20 international – live!

  04-09-2020 20:55
  
  Over-by-over updates, play starts at 6pm BSTYorkshire investigate Azeem Rafiq’s racism claimsAnd send your thoughts to Tanya on email or Twitter 7.55pm BST 2nd over: Australia 20-0 (Warner 12, Finch 8) Wood, just as fast, takes the other end. Slightly worried demeanour, a more obvious acceleration in approach. Warner is nearly beaten by a ball that skids onto the splice from Wood, and bumps over mid-off for four. Then a swivel pull for another four. Not pretty, but effective.7.50pm BST 1st
  
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• England v Australia: Aaron Finch takes a brilliant catch to remove Tom Banton

  04-09-2020 20:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Australia captain Aaron Finch takes a brilliant running catch to remove Tom Banton in the first T20 against England in Southampton.
  
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• England v Australia: Jos Buttler hits two huge sixes in an over

  04-09-2020 19:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jos Buttler hits Ashton Agar for two sixes in an over in the first T20 between England and Australia in Southampton.
  
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• CPL: Kevin Sinclair's summersaults for Guyana Amazon Warriors

  04-09-2020 19:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Watch a brilliant catch on the boundary from Shimron Hetmyer, a "magnificent six" and double somersault celebrations from Kevin Sinclair in the Caribbean Premier League.
  
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• England v Australia: first T20 international – live!

  04-09-2020 18:19
  
  Over-by-over updates, play starts at 6pm BSTYorkshire investigate Azeem Rafiq’s racism claimsAnd send your thoughts to Tanya on email or Twitter 5.19pm BST And some fascinating insights into the Australian psyche in this piece from Adam Collins. As far as meaningless white-ball series are concerned, Australia’s 2018 trip to England lives long in the memory. The first time the national side convened since the sandpaper fiasco four months earlier, they were duly annihilated by the worl
  
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• David Capel obituary

  04-09-2020 17:48
  
  Cricketing all-rounder who was loyal to Northamptonshire and made 15 Test appearances for EnglandIt was 1989, another disastrous summer for English cricket. The Ashes had been lost, horribly. Half the England team were on the brink of joining a rebel tour to the pariah state of South Africa. Of those staying, the former star Ian Botham was in eclipse and there was an urgent search for a new world-beating all-rounder.As a try-out, England then sent a team of young hopefuls to the Netherlands for
  
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• Bob Willis Trophy: Kent deducted one point for slow over-rate

  04-09-2020 16:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Kent are given a one-point deduction for a slow over-rate in their Bob Willis Trophy game with Surrey.
  
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• Azeem Rafiq: Yorkshire's former spinner on 'dreading every second' of playing for the county

  04-09-2020 14:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Azeem Rafiq says while people thought he was "living a dream" in reality he was "dreading every second" of his time at Yorkshire.
  
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• Graham Onions: Lancashire & ex-England bowler retires

  04-09-2020 14:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lancashire and former England seam bowler Graham Onions retires from cricket following a back injury.
  
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• Entire Women's Big Bash season to be held in Sydney bio-secure hub

  04-09-2020 10:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Australia's Women's Big Bash season will be played entirely in Sydney because of travel restrictions imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Toby Roland-Jones: Middlesex seamer to miss rest of season with shoulder injury

  04-09-2020 09:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Middlesex seamer Toby Roland-Jones will miss the rest of the season because of an "ongoing shoulder complaint".
  
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• Sydney to host entire WBBL season as tension with Channel Seven eases

  04-09-2020 08:05
  
  All 59 games confirmed for competition’s sixth seasonChannel Seven holds ‘constructive’ talks with CACricket Australia has confirmed Sydney will host host all 59 games of this year’s Women’s Big Bash League this summer, as Channel Seven said it had held “constructive” talks with CA over this summer’s broadcasting deal. The sixth edition of the WBBL will be held exclusively in Sydney in a move CA said “demonstrates the commitment across Austra
  
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• England's card school, life as 12th man and facing Australia

  04-09-2020 07:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How do you fill your days as 12th man? Who is king of the card school? And why England are grateful to biggest rivals Australia.
  
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