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• IPL: Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Mumbai Indians to reach play-offs

  03-11-2020 19:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  David Warner's 85 helps Sunrisers Hyderabad reach the last four of the Indian Premier League with a 10-wicket victory against Mumbai Indians.
  
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• Letter: John Reid obituary

  03-11-2020 18:40
  
  In 1965 John Reid and the West Indies batsman Conrad Hunte were keen to practice in London before the Rest of the World against an England XI series. Hunte came to my club, Shepherd’s Bush, when we played Stanmore, who got Reid.I happened to be playing, and recall that while Reid was the more serious of the two, they were both very gracious about having to ply their trade at a lower than usual standard. Both scored 30-odd runs before getting out, and fortunately Reid turned down the opport
  
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• South Africa v England: Ben Stokes named in Twenty20 squad for white-ball tour

  03-11-2020 15:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ben Stokes has been named in England's Twenty20 squad for next month's white-ball tour of South Africa.
  
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• Ed Smith denies Stokes, Archer and Curran lack commitment to England

  03-11-2020 14:14
  
  Trio permitted to miss ODI leg of South Africa tourSurrey’s Reece Topley named in T20 and ODI squadsEd Smith felt moved to defend the commitment of Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer and Sam Curran to the England cause after allowing them to miss the one-day international leg of the upcoming South Africa tour in order to rest.All three have recently been playing the Indian Premier League and, while they will still fly to Cape Town on 16 November as part of a 23-man touring party, they have permissio
  
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• Ben Stokes rested from England's ODI squad for tour of South Africa

  03-11-2020 14:14
  
  Jofra Archer and Sam Curran will also only feature in T20sReece Topley named in both squads for tour later this monthBen Stokes, Jofra Archer and Sam Curran have been rested from the one-day international portion of England’s upcoming white-ball tour of South Africa and will return home after the Twenty20 series has finished.Left-arm seamer Reece Topley has been named in both 15-man squads for a tour which gets underway with the first of three T20s on 27 November and finishes with the last
  
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• The Spin | What's in a name? No sport is as bound up with nomenclature as cricket

  03-11-2020 12:00
  
  From IT Botham to Garfield St Aubrun Sobers, the stories behind players’ names adds to cricket’s mythology and richnessIn particularly desperate times, the Spin’s parents wondered whether, had they called their son something “less naughty than Daniel,” they would have enjoyed a more ruly son. Which is to say that names are strange, at once arbitrary and definitive; we’re allocated them as babies, then grow to inhabit them so completely that they become insepar
  
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• Shane Watson: Former Australia all-rounder retires

  03-11-2020 09:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former Australia all-rounder Shane Watson retires from all forms of cricket after a 20-year career.
  
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