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• Gabba a fitting venue for Nathan Lyon's 100th Test milestone | Adam Collins

  13-01-2021 23:49 via theguardian.com
  
  The quiet offspinner has found his voice but Lyon knows his actions with ball in hand will talk loudestNathan Lyon has never been the type let his guard down when a microphone is in front of him. Sure, he was always unlikely to be the most verbose of characters, having arrived at international cricket from nowhere as a shy 23-year-old who had never been on the national pathway until months before his extraordinary debut in 2011.However, after a while, we learned not to expect an awful lot more t
  
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• England batting consultant Jacques Kallis regrets enforced South Africa exit

  13-01-2021 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  South Africa role ‘fell away’ because of affirmative action policy Kallis: ‘It’s tough but we understand where it comes from’Jacques Kallis, the legendary all-rounder who is working as England’s batting consultant for the Test series in Sri Lanka, has spoken of his regret at being forced out of a similar position with his native South Africa after their adoption of an affirmative action policy last year.“I wasn’t allowed to be involved because Cric
  
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• Since Jardine's ill-fated taxi ride, Sri Lankan Tests have always been a bit taxing | Andy Bull

  13-01-2021 16:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Only after being thrashed at the Oval in 1998 have England stopped treating their Test rivals this month as underdogs – but all subsequent series have been played on equal footingFrom this distance it seems to have been a tricky little start to the tour of Sri Lanka, where England spent three days locked up inside their hotel rooms, then had one half of their only warm-up game washed out by rain. Still, Joe Root has handled these little challenges with more grace, and good humour, than som
  
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• Australia coach Justin Langer defends Tim Paine over sledging criticism

  13-01-2021 15:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Australia head coach Justin Langer defends Tim Paine after the captain was involved in a sledging incident with India's Ravichandran Ashwin.
  
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• Colin Graves insists rich IPL owners willing to invest in the Hundred

  13-01-2021 14:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Former ECB chairman believes private investment now vitalHiring Indian players for competition would be ‘phenomenal’Colin Graves has stressed wealthy Indian Premier League team owners remain keen to buy into the Hundred as English cricket considers private investment in response to the financial challenges of Covid-19.Eyebrows were raised last week when it was announced that Graves, chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board until last September, had joined the advisory board of
  
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• Colin Graves insists rich IPL owners are willing to invest in the Hundred

  13-01-2021 14:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Former ECB chairman believes private investment now vitalHiring Indian players for competition would be ‘phenomenal’Colin Graves has stressed wealthy Indian Premier League team owners remain keen to buy into the Hundred as English cricket considers private investment in response to the financial challenges of Covid-19.Eyebrows were raised last week when it was announced that Graves, chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board until last September, had joined the advisory board of
  
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• The Steve Smith scuffing story is little more than dust | Geoff Lemon

  13-01-2021 08:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Smith’s history of cheating will always invite scrutiny but accusations still need enough substance to stand upAs India saw out the final moments of a remarkable Test draw with Australia in Sydney on Monday, former Indian batsman Virender Sehwag posted a video on Twitter. Clipped from stump camera footage, it showed an Australian fielder walking to the empty batting crease and scraping his foot across the pitch, before an Indian batsman entered to resume play.“Tried all tricks includ
  
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• Concrete facts prove Steve Smith scuffing claims just political dirt-kicking | Geoff Lemon

  13-01-2021 08:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Smith’s history of cheating will always invite scrutiny, but accusations still need enough substance to stand upAs India saw out the final moments of a remarkable Test draw with Australia in Sydney on Monday, former Indian batsman Virender Sehwag posted a video on Twitter. Clipped from stump camera footage, it showed an Australian fielder walking to the empty batting crease and scraping his foot across the pitch, before an Indian batsman entered to resume play.“Tried all tricks inclu
  
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• Justin Langer, Tim Paine defend Steve Smith over crease-scuffing claim

  13-01-2021 03:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Smith accused of scuffing guard of India’s Rishabh PantAustralia captain Paine apologises for his own behaviour Australia’s coach, Justin Langer, and captain, Tim Paine, have defended Steve Smith after he was accused of deliberately scuffing away the guard of the India batsman Rishabh Pant on a climactic final day of the third Test between the teams.Smith was filmed on a stump camera shadow-batting then seemingly swiping away at pitch marks made by Pant, whose 97 from 118 balls gave
  
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• India reportedly complain to Cricket Australia about Brisbane Test hotel

  13-01-2021 00:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Standard of gym and lack of housekeeping among complaintsCA gives BCCI fresh assurances hotel facilities are adequateIndia’s cricket board has reportedly complained to Cricket Australia about several aspects of the Brisbane bubble that Ajinkya Rahane’s team will call home until the Test series ends.The tourists had been reluctant to travel to Queensland’s capital for the series decider that begins at the Gabba on Friday, worried about what sort of biosecurity restrictions could
  
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