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• Vince and Westley score first double tons of county season – as it happened

  09-04-2021 20:51
  
  Hampshire and Essex captains led their team into strong positions, while 44-year-old Darren Stevens helped Kent to 455 7.49pm BST Hampshire’s James Vince and Tom Westley of Essex became the season’s first double-centurions on the second day of the County Championship season, both captains steering their sides to commanding first-innings totals in very different styles.Vince’s swashbuckling 231 came off just 220 balls, with 38 boundaries including a pair of sixes. He put on 224
  
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• Moeen Ali abuse an upsetting start to both the IPL and County Championship

  09-04-2021 13:55
  
  Moeen has received excellent support from his fellow cricketers after a tweet by a dissident free-thinker, Taslima NasreenThe first little buds and whispers are here. Rabbits are rustling in the tree line. Photos of grimacing people in white jumpers shadowed by vast anvil clouds are bubbling up on the timeline. At Northants Gareth Berg, aged 40, has been bowling to Darren Stevens, aged 44 – a weirdly primal collision, like some ancient dance of defiance by the last men on Earth before the
  
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• England’s cricketers provide voice of reason after racist abuse of Moeen Ali | Barney Ronay

  09-04-2021 13:55
  
  In a heartening collision of the cultural spheres Moeen’s England teammates were quick to jump in when he was abused by dissident free-thinker Taslima NasreenThe first little buds and whispers are here. Rabbits are rustling in the tree line. Photos of grimacing people in white jumpers shadowed by vast anvil clouds are bubbling up on the timeline. At Northants Gareth Berg, aged 40, has been bowling to Darren Stevens, aged 44 – a weirdly primal collision, like some ancient dance of def
  
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• Middlesex v Somerset, Lancashire v Sussex: County Championship – live!

  09-04-2021 11:28
  
  County Championship updates from day two of round oneRuns for Robson as Middlesex and Somerset make chilly start
  Send thoughts to Simon on email, Twitter or comment BTL 10.26am BST I’m back at Lord’s, and this morning the sun is shining. Having learned my lesson the hard way, today I arrived with winter coat and scarf, and both are draped on the back of my chair. What’s more, although I now know about the switch in my repurposed hospitality box marked “heater”, I am
  
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