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• New Zealand v Australia: fifth T20 international – live!

  06-03-2021 23:30
  
  Updates from the final match of the seriesStart time in Wellington is 12pm local time/10am AEDTAny thoughts? Email or tweet @GeoffLemonSport 10.19pm GMT It’s decider time. The fifth and final match of this T20 contest. What a strange series it has been. For the first two matches, New Zealand were cruising and Australia were total pants. Then the next two New Zealand were pants and Australia looked great. We started with two big New Zealand totals and two poor Australian chases, even if the
  
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• Twenty20 World Cup final remains an untouched monument to women's sport | Megan Schutt

  06-03-2021 20:00
  
  Australia’s triumph in front of a huge crowd at the MCG on International Women’s Day a year ago was the last slice of normality before the sporting landscape shifted irrevocablyI have never been the type of person to relive moments from the past. I remember them, for sure – little things about this match being enjoyable or that one not so much – but my modus operandi is generally to recall, rather than reflect and reminisce.It is why, whenever my parents recorded my match
  
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• England's young guns learning on the job speaks to systematic failing | Andy Bull

  06-03-2021 17:20
  
  While India’s Virat Kohli talked up the contribution of his newer players, Joe Root admitted his charges have a way to go yetThere was a weary inevitability about the last day of the series. England 10 for one, 10 for two, 20 for three, 30 for four, the wickets dropping like tired eyelids, loss washing over them like sleep falling on an exhausted man.It leaves their winter split neatly in two: three handsome victories – two in Sri Lanka by seven wickets and then six wickets, and one
  
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• England's young guns learning on the job speaks to a systemic failing | Andy Bull

  06-03-2021 17:20
  
  While India’s Virat Kohli talked up the contribution of his newer players, Joe Root admitted his charges have a way to go yetThere was a weary inevitability about the last day of the series. England 10 for one, 10 for two, 20 for three, 30 for four, the wickets dropping like tired eyelids, loss washing over them like sleep falling on an exhausted man.It leaves their winter split neatly in two: three handsome victories – two in Sri Lanka by seven wickets and then six wickets, and one
  
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• England's young guns learning on the job speaks to a systematic failing | Andy Bull

  06-03-2021 17:20
  
  While India’s Virat Kohli talked up the contribution of his newer players, Joe Root admitted his charges have a way to go yetThere was a weary inevitability about the last day of the series. England 10 for one, 10 for two, 20 for three, 30 for four, the wickets dropping like tired eyelids, loss washing over them like sleep falling on an exhausted man.It leaves their winter split neatly in two: three handsome victories – two in Sri Lanka by seven wickets and then six wickets, and one
  
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• 'Not a perfect scenario': Root regrets rotation but admits it may continue

  06-03-2021 17:09
  
  Tourists made four changes after victory in first Test‘It’s important we learn lessons,’ says England captainJoe Root has said England’s rest and rotation policy could rumble on through to next winter’s Ashes series and urged the team management and his players to learn key lessons from the heavy defeat suffered in India.After his side lost the fourth Test in Ahmedabad by an innings and 25 runs to complete a 3-1 loss, the England captain was honest enough to admit t
  
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• Ashwin hails India's bio-bubble bond after defeating England – video

  06-03-2021 17:00
  
  Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin took five wickets apiece as India overwhelmed England’s batsmen to seal a 3-1 series win and take a place in the World Test Championship final. Ashwin said being in the bio-bubble with the team had been ‘special’ and the bond they formed contributed to their successEngland fall apart again as spinners wrap up innings win and series for India Continue reading...
  
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• England in India: Joe Root says his team would be 'stupid' not to learn from defeat

  06-03-2021 13:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Captain Joe Root says England would be "stupid" not to learn lessons from their 3-1 Test series defeat in India.
  
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• Axar Patel: The story behind India's latest star spin bowler

  06-03-2021 12:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  From the mystery behind his name to how he brought Bollywood vibes to Durham, the story behind India's newest star spinner Axar Patel.
  
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• India v England: Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin seal series for hosts

  06-03-2021 12:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England's series defeat in India is sealed with one final, abject batting collapse on the third day of the fourth Test in Ahmedabad.
  
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• India beat England by an innings: fourth Test, day three – as it happened

  06-03-2021 12:06
  
  Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin took five wickets apiece as India overwhelmed England’s batsmen to complete a 3-1 series victory 11.08am GMT That’s it for our liveblog. Thanks for your company and emails, today and throughout a thrilling series. We’ll be back on Friday for the start of the T20 series. Good day!Related: England fall apart again as spinners wrap up innings win and series for India11.06am GMT And here’s Virat Kohli“The comeback pleased me the most.
  
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• India beat England by an innings: fourth Test, day three – live!

  06-03-2021 11:29
  
  Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin took five wickets apiece as India overwhelmed England’s batsmen to complete a 3-1 series victory 10.29am GMT I wonder what Shahbaz Nadeem makes of all this. His struggles seem a long time ago. 10.27am GMT Selected series averages 10.24am GMT This is (yet) another great spot from Tim#INDvENG Congratulations to Dan Lawrence, the only Englishman to make more Test runs in the whole winter than Joe Root made in his second-best innings 10.23am GMT England made
  
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• England fall apart again as spinners wrap up innings win and series for India

  06-03-2021 11:29
  
  Fourth Test, day three: England 205 & 135; 365Resounding victory seals 3-1 series triumph for hostsEngland’s punch-drunk batsmen crumbled one last time against India’s spinners as their hopes of a series-levelling victory in the fourth Test went up in smoke on day three in Ahmedabad.The hosts piled up a first-innings lead of 160 after adding another 69 runs in the morning session, before Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin continued their outright domination of a team who looked m
  
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• Alex Hartley: 'I don’t think I deserve to have people telling me to die' | Tanya Aldred

  06-03-2021 09:00
  
  A jokey attempt to advertise an England Women’s match against New Zealand on social media resulted in death threats to the bowlerBarely two hours after Joe Root had taken five wickets in the third Test at Ahmedabad with his holiday-season off-breaks, the cricketer Alex Hartley tapped out a tweet meant to highlight the women’s match against New Zealand that evening. “Nice of the England boys to get this test match finished just before England Women play tonight,” she wrote
  
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