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• Premier League to vote on allowing fans back for final game of the season

  23-02-2021 20:29
  
  Restrictions due to end in time for 23 May
  Move would require approval from 14 of 20 clubs
  Premier League clubs are to vote on whether to allow fans back for the final day of the season with concerns that home teams could have an significant advantage in the battle for European places and the relegation fight.Boris Johnson announced the government’s post-lockdown plans on Monday and up to 10,000 spectators could be let into grounds on 23 May, when Fulham are due to play Newcastle at Craven
  
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• Premier League to vote on allowing fans back for final game of season

  23-02-2021 20:29
  
  Restrictions due to end in time for 23 May
  Move would require approval from 14 of 20 clubs
  Premier League clubs are to vote on whether to allow fans back for the final day of the season with concerns that home teams could have an significant advantage in the battle for European places and the relegation fight.Boris Johnson announced the government’s post-lockdown plans on Monday and up to 10,000 spectators could be let into grounds on 23 May, when Fulham are due to play Newcastle at Craven
  
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• Virat Kohli calls on crowd to 'make life more difficult' for England in third Test

  23-02-2021 19:30
  
  Third Test taking place in front of thousands in Ahmedabad‘The crowd plays a massive role. I’ve experienced that’
  Virat Kohli has called on a bumper crowd in Ahmedabad to make life difficult for England as India’s firebrand captain heads into Wednesday’s crucial day-night third Test seemingly brimming with confidence.The pink ball fixture at the Motera Stadium marks the first international at the ground since it was revamped for a new 110,000 capacity and while Covi
  
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• Virat Kohli calls on crowd 'make life more difficult' for England in third Test

  23-02-2021 19:30
  
  India captain brimming with confidence before key match‘The crowd plays a massive role. I’ve experienced that’
  Virat Kohli has called on a bumper crowd in Ahmedabad to make life difficult for England as India’s firebrand captain heads into Wednesday’s crucial day-night third Test seemingly brimming with confidence.The pink ball fixture at the Motera Stadium marks the first international at the ground since it was revamped for a new 110,000 capacity and while Covid-1
  
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• The Hundred 2021: Full squad list

  23-02-2021 17:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Find out who is playing for who in The Hundred's debut season in 2021.
  
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• England and India ready for battle under Ahmedabad lights

  23-02-2021 17:05
  
  Kohli and Root to lead sides in day-night blockbuster
  Series level 1-1, with pink SG ball in use for third TestAfter one win each in the series and with two to play, the third Test between India and England at Ahmedabad’s hulking great Motera Stadium would be a blockbuster affair regardless of the day-night element. The two teams have served up a treat thus far, in keeping with what feels a wider golden period for Test cricket.But as well as a more palatable 9am start time for viewers in t
  
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• The Hundred: Sophie Devine shows women's cricket can create heroes for boys and girls

  23-02-2021 13:58 via bbc.co.uk
  Why The Hundred could prove to be the platform which creates female cricket heroes for both boys and girls.
  
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• The Spin | The Commonwealth of Cricket: sport, race and empire in powerful memoir

  23-02-2021 12:00
  
  Ramachandra Guha’s A Corner of a Foreign Field was a landmark work and his new book finds him no less outspokenIt is nearly two decades since A Corner of a Foreign Field was published. The importance (not to say brilliance) of Ramachandra Guha’s work was immediately understood, and its subtitle – An Indian History of a British Sport – perfectly encapsulated its pioneering perspective. Here was a social history of the game that met and challenged the yet-lingering gaze of
  
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• ECB announces Hundred will start in July with women's match at Oval

  23-02-2021 11:19
  
  Manchester Originals to face Oval Invincibles on 21 JulyKieron Pollard and Meg Lanning drafted by Welsh Fire
  It has been reviled, then delayed. Now the England and Wales Cricket Board has announced the Hundred will start with a standalone match from the women’s tournament – featuring Manchester Originals, one of the team names that provoked such mixed reactions when they were announced 18 months ago.The Originals will take on the Oval Invincibles on 21 July at the Oval, with the corr
  
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• Tammy Beaumont and Heather Knight ease England to ODI win in New Zealand

  23-02-2021 10:28
  
  New Zealand 178; England 181-2 – England win by eight wicketsCaptain steers tourists home with 16.2 overs to spareStylish half-centuries from Tammy Beaumont and Heather Knight steered England to an emphatic eight-wicket win in their opening one-day international against New Zealand in Christchurch.Playing in their first 50-over match for 14 months, England skittled the hosts for 178, with Tash Farrant – playing only her second ODI, seven years after her first – impressing with
  
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• The Hundred: Simon Katich's guide to building a team from scratch

  23-02-2021 09:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Simon Katich, head coach of Manchester Originals, tells BBC Sport what he looked for when assembling a squad from scratch.
  
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• England in New Zealand: Tourists claim comfortable eight-wicket win in first ODI

  23-02-2021 08:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England register a comfortable eight-wicket win over New Zealand in their first one-day international for over a year.
  
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• The Hundred: New tournament to begin on 21 July with women's fixture at The Oval

  23-02-2021 08:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The first match of The Hundred will be a women's fixture between Oval Invincibles and Manchester Originals on 21 July live on BBC TV.
  
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• ECB announces the Hundred will start in July with women's match at Oval

  23-02-2021 08:00
  
  Manchester Originals to face Oval Invincibles on 21 JulyCorresponding men’s fixture will follow the next dayIt has been reviled, then delayed; now the England and Wales Cricket Board has announced the Hundred will start with a standalone match from the women’s tournament – featuring Manchester Originals, one of the team names that provoked such mixed reactions when they were first announced 18 months ago.The Originals will take on the Oval Invincibles on 21 July at the Oval, wi
  
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• Seventeen-year-old Darcie Brown included in Australia squad for New Zealand tour

  23-02-2021 02:53
  
  Hannah Darlington, 20, also on 17-player listThree T20s and three ODIs scheduled for March and AprilAustralia’s rich depth of talent has been highlighted with the inclusion of up-and-coming players Darcie Brown and Hannah Darlington for the white-ball tour of New Zealand.Brown, 17, and Darlington, 20, have been selected in the national squad for the first time and will travel across the Tasman Sea for three T20s and three ODIs, starting in late March and running into April. Related: Ellyse
  
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