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• Dawid Malan: I’m proud of being No 1 but it guarantees nothing

  05-12-2020 13:00
  
  The world’s top T20i batsman powered England to a 3-0 series clean sweep in South Africa but says becoming a fixture in the team has been no easy ride and that he still has Ashes ambitionsDawid Malan landed in South Africa unsure if he would play but he has left with a greater sense of belonging, both in terms of his place in England’s best Twenty20 team and the No 1 tag that previously left him feeling embarrassed.A 14-day quarantine period in an Australian hotel room now beckons fo
  
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• Tom Banton withdraws from Brisbane Heat team for Big Bash League over bio-bubble fatigue

  05-12-2020 11:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England batsman Tom Banton withdraws from the Big Bash League, saying living in bio-secure bubbles has been "harder than I thought".
  
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• England-South Africa ODI series to go ahead after negative Covid-19 tests

  05-12-2020 09:51
  
  Series to start on Sunday after South Africa’s negative tests
  Further positives would have likely led to tour’s abrupt endEngland’s one-day series against South Africa will go ahead after the home side’s latest round of coronavirus tests came back negative. The first ODI was postponed barely an hour before play was due to start at Newlands on Friday following a positive test in the Proteas camp and any further cases would have likely led to the tour’s abrupt end. Re
  
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• Pandemic puts a pause on England and Australia's vital talent exchange | Ali Martin

  05-12-2020 09:00
  
  For decades hundreds of players from the two countries have spent their winters trying club cricket on the other side of the world … but not this yearFor all the white heat of the Ashes rivalry, the relationship between England and Australia is arguably the most symbiotic in world cricket; an alternating seasonal exchange of talent that enriches both ecosystems far more than is often heralded.Beyond the regular influx of Australians in the county game and what is now a surge of English cr
  
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• Dilemmas at every turn in the illogical, dangerous beauty of sport | Barney Ronay

  05-12-2020 09:00
  
  After a week of trauma from boxing ring to football pitch we must remember there is value in the extreme things people do
  If you haven’t seen the new TV advert for Jacamo clothing I highly recommend doing so. It’s an exhilarating thing. First up we see the Jacamo models: stern, powerful men dressed in comfortable nylon leisurewear. These pictures are cut with a reel of stirring images. Rutting stags. A priapic wind tower. A spurting volcano. A craning lighthouse drenched in surf. Sta
  
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• Australia's women's T20 World Cup-winning cricket team win The Don Award

  05-12-2020 01:40
  
  Socceroos in 2006 only other team to claim gongCaptain Meg Lanning says award “huge honour”Australia’s women’s T20 World Cup winners have become just the second team to win the The Don Award after their memorable tournament victory at the MCG in March.Their dominant win in the final was watched by 86,174 fans at the iconic venue – the largest crowd for a women’s sporting event in Australia and the record figure for a women’s cricket match globally. Relat
  
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