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• Joe Root wants a braver England but India have no cause to let up

  02-03-2021 23:00
  
  With a world championship final place in sight for the hosts, the last Test of England’s tour poses as intense a challenge as everAfter two months in the subcontinent, England’s Test cricketers are within touching distance of the departure lounge. Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow, Jofra Archer and Mark Wood will stay on for a Twenty20 series that has seemingly taken priority with the selectors but, otherwise, the red-ball players will soon be home.Such thoughts inevitably creep in during r
  
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• Joe Root urges England to deliver 'monumental' end to India series

  02-03-2021 23:00
  
  Final Test begins in Ahmedabad on ThursdayHome side lead four-match series 2-1Joe Root has called on his England players to leave behind any baggage from their struggles against spin and produce a “monumental” end to their Test winter despite preparations for Thursday’sfinale in India having been hampered by sickness.Sitting 2-1 down with one to play, the fourth Test in Ahmedabad presents the tourists with a chance to become the first team since 2012 to avoid a series defeat in
  
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• England must be braver but India will not let up with a world final in sight | Ali Martin

  02-03-2021 23:00
  
  With a world championship final place in sight for the hosts, the last Test of England’s tour poses as intense a challenge as everAfter two months in the subcontinent, England’s Test cricketers are within touching distance of the departure lounge. Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow, Jofra Archer and Mark Wood will stay on for a Twenty20 series that has seemingly taken priority with the selectors but, otherwise, the red-ball players will soon be home.Such thoughts inevitably creep in during r
  
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• The Spin | The 1920-21 Ashes: typhus quarantine and unseemly barracking

  02-03-2021 13:26
  
  England’s men are struggling in India but the tour to Australia 100 years ago was beset from all sides and ended in a 5-0 defeatA hundred years ago on Monday, England’s fifth and final Test in Australia concluded, like the previous four, in defeat, ending a tour that started badly and went rapidly downhill, a voyage of Englishmen to Australia which was dealt its first blow when a man from Malta who had recently returned from Poland boarded a boat in Italy and disembarked in Sri Lanka
  
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• Australia set to make changes with New Zealand T20 series on line

  02-03-2021 04:03
  
  Visitors seeking to stay alive in third of five-match series Middle order shake-up expected in WellingtonAustralia are likely to change their T20 line-up in the hope of avoiding a series loss – and possible whitewash – to New Zealand. Wellington’s Sky Stadium hosts game three of the series on Wednesday night after the Black Caps won in Christchurch and Dunedin last week.Related: Australia’s T20 match against NZ moved to Wellington amid Auckland lockdownRelated: Joys of Tw
  
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• Budget 2021: Cricket to get 'significant slice' of £300m package to help sports

  02-03-2021 00:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  English cricket will receive a "significant chunk" of a new £300m summer sports recovery package.
  
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