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• Australia's Indian summer states case for ODIs to precede Tests | Geoff Lemon

  30-11-2020 17:30
  
  This tour is a real-time refresher course on why starting with limited-overs matches is the best methodThe argument for playing one-day matches before a Test series has always been straightforward. You have an entree before the main. For spectators, shorter matches rouse the appetite. For players, it follows the principle of building up training loads, working their way into the most demanding format a day at a time.On both sides of the boundary it creates continuity, an earlier start to the thr
  
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• Australia's Indian summer is proof ODIs should precede Tests | Geoff Lemon

  30-11-2020 17:30
  
  This tour is a real-time refresher course on why starting with limited-overs matches is the best methodThe argument for playing one-day matches before a Test series has always been straightforward. You have an entree before the main. For spectators, shorter matches rouse the appetite. For players, it follows the principle of building up training loads, working their way into the most demanding format a day at a time.On both sides of the boundary it creates continuity, an earlier start to the thr
  
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• Jofra Archer ready to sign off T20 against South Africa and put his feet up

  30-11-2020 16:13
  
  England ponder excusing quick from two-Test Sri Lanka tourOther multi-format players may get similar treatmentJofra Archer will sign off from England’s tour of South Africa after Tuesday’s final Twenty20 at Newlands and could see this rest period extended into February amid thoughts of allowing him to miss the two-Test series in Sri Lanka.The 25-year-old fast bowler is one of three players to feature in the recent Indian Premier League and then take up the option to sit out the three
  
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• New ICC chair questions future of World Test Championship

  30-11-2020 11:50
  
  Greg Barclay offers no guarantees beyond 2021 Lord’s final‘I’m just not quite sure it’s entirely fit for purpose’The continuation of the World Test Championship beyond the final next year appears to be in doubt after Greg Barclay, the newly elected chair of the International Cricket Council, questioned whether the competition is fit for purpose.It was hoped the two-year league cycle, one that culminates in a showpiece Test between the top two sides, would add greate
  
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• Colin Ingram: Glamorgan batsman extends stay and returns to Championship

  30-11-2020 11:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Glamorgan's South African batsman Colin Ingram will return to Championship cricket as he extends his stay at the county in 2022.
  
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• Burdened by genius: Maradona reminds us how peaking young brings its problems | Vic Marks

  30-11-2020 09:00
  
  Following a Mexico 86 or Headingley 81 can weigh hard on superstars, which might be why many top coaches come from a lower rungThe death of Diego Maradona provided another reminder that life is seldom simple for the sporting superstar. Maradona was obviously a footballing genius, whose later life was, by all accounts, chaotic. In 1986, at the age of 26, the brilliance of his feet, his vision and his deception led to Argentina winning the World Cup. It doesn’t get any better than that. And
  
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• David Warner in race to prove fitness for Australia's Test series with India

  30-11-2020 03:00
  
  Opener ruled out of remainder of white-ball seriesD’Arcy Short called up as a replacementDavid Warner has avoided surgery on his injured groin but is now racing against the clock to play in the first Test of the summer. Warner went down in Sunday night’s ODI series-clinching win with scans confirming a strain that will keep him out of the white-ball matches.He has been replaced in the Twenty20 squad by D’Arcy Short, but has just 18 days to prove his fitness for the first Test i
  
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