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• Sri Lanka confident Test series with England will not be hit by covid

  05-01-2021 18:59
  
  Coach Mickey Arthur says officials have ‘done a hell of a job’‘More cases in the England camp could be the only issue’Sri Lanka have full confidence in their biosecure arrangements for the upcoming series against England, with the chief question now being whether Covid-19 was able to spread among the tourists during the journey from London last weekend.Moeen Ali is England’s one confirmed case after testing positive on arrival on Sunday, and on Tuesday the all-round
  
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• Sri Lanka confident Test series with England will not be derailed by Covid

  05-01-2021 18:59
  
  Coach Mickey Arthur says officials have ‘done a hell of a job’‘More cases in the England camp could be the only issue’Sri Lanka have full confidence in their biosecure arrangements for the upcoming series against England, with the chief question now being whether Covid-19 was able to spread among the tourists during the journey from London last weekend.Moeen Ali is England’s one confirmed case after testing positive on arrival on Sunday, and on Tuesday the all-round
  
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• Australia's cricket summer during Covid is about money and power – and men | Megan Maurice

  05-01-2021 17:30
  
  Such a monstrous effort to ensure a relatively normal series with India says a lot about the value placed on the men’s gameLike a Netflix drama binged during lockdown, the series between Australia and India has contained no end of surprising twists and turns. At first the storyline seemed predictable; the reassuring certainty of the Boxing Day Test and New Year’s Test set the scene at the heart of the tale.But quickly both matches were thrown into doubt. First it was Melbourne &ndash
  
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• South Africa claim second Test and series sweep after Sri Lanka collapse

  05-01-2021 13:44
  
  Johannesburg: Sri Lanka 157 & 211; South Africa 302 & 67-0Tourists suffer 10-wicket loss before England seriesSouth Africa completed a sweep of their two match series against Sri Lanka as they strolled to a 10-wicket win on the third day of the second Test on Tuesday.The hosts knocked off a target of 67 runs without loss as openers Dean Elgar (31 not out) and Aiden Markram (36 not out) saw them to victory at the Wanderers Stadium with two-and-a-half days of the contest still remaining. R
  
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• South Africa v Sri Lanka: Hosts wrap up 10-wicket win inside three days

  05-01-2021 12:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  South Africa comfortably beat England's next opponents, Sri Lanka, by 10 wickets, to wrap up a comfortable 2-0 series win.
  
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• The Spin | How one umpire's war on throwing hounded a bowler out via 16 no balls

  05-01-2021 11:55
  
  Jim Phillips could not stand crooked elbows in cricket and in 1901 Arthur Mold ended up bearing the brunt of his ireIt was in this week in 1898 that Ernest Jones became the first bowler in Test history to be no-balled for throwing, an early skirmish in a one-man war waged by James, Jim or Jem Phillips, Anglo-Australian cricketer, umpire and fighter against the crooked elbow, who once went two full decades without experiencing a winter only to break that run in the most emphatic way possible by g
  
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• Australia will watch anxiously if Will Pucovski makes Test debut against India at SCG | Adam Collins

  05-01-2021 07:59
  
  Justin Langer is upbeat but the fact two neurologists were consulted to pass the concussion-prone batting prodigy fit is cause for concernUnresolved as they are, the internal grumbles and logistical queries surrounding this Sydney Test have ceased. Come Thursday morning, it will be in the Harbour City where the show will go on between Australia and India – a captivating show at that. But this off-field noise has instead been replaced by another confusing poser: is he good to go?The subject
  
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• Australia will watch anxiously if Will Pucovski makes Test debut against India | Adam Collins

  05-01-2021 07:59
  
  Justin Langer is upbeat but the fact two neurologists were consulted to pass the concussion-prone batting prodigy fit is cause for concernUnresolved as they are, the internal grumbles and logistical queries surrounding this Sydney Test have ceased. Come Thursday morning, it will be in the Harbour City where the show will go on between Australia and India – a captivating show at that. But this off-field noise has instead been replaced by another confusing poser: is he good to go?The subject
  
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• Berala and western Sydney residents risk $1,000 fines if they attend SCG for Sydney Test

  05-01-2021 05:08
  
  New health order to ban suburbs surrounding Berala clusterUnclear if order will affect other sporting events NSW hotspots listVictoria hotspots listResidents from Berala and surrounding western Sydney suburbs have been warned they will be fined $1,000 if they “put a foot inside the SCG” for Australia’s third Test against India.The Sydney Test will proceed as planned from Thursday, though crowd capacity has been reduced from 50% to 25%. Related: Crowd capacity for SCG Test betwe
  
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