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• Haseeb Hameed rediscovers form and love of game at Nottinghamshire

  28-04-2021 21:26
  
  Batsman hit two centuries in Championship match last weekHameed made early England bow, but then sacked by LancsWhen Haseeb Hameed registered his second century of the match for Nottinghamshire in the County Championship game against Worcestershire last week, film showed a dressing room bursting with pleasure. It was not confined to the players; all round the country affection bubbles for a young man treated most unkindly by the cricketing gods.Plucked for a tour of India as a 19-year-old after
  
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• IPL: Chennai Super Kings go top after beating Sunrisers Hyderabad

  28-04-2021 19:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three-time champions Chennai Super Kings move to the top of the Indian Premier League table with a seven-wicket win against Sunrisers Hyderabad.
  
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• Long silence awaits banned Heath Streak and cricket’s condemned corruptors | Andy Bull

  28-04-2021 15:44
  
  One of the ironies of the former Zimbabwe captain’s case is that the fixers used his care for the game against himJune 2015, and I’m in the headmaster’s study at Christchurch boys’ high school, listening to him tick off the famous New Zealand sportsmen who went there. Dan Carter, Brodie Retallick, Andrew Mehrtens, Owen Franks, Aaron Mauger, Steve Hansen, Graham Henry, he was running out of fingers, and he hadn’t even started on the cricketers, Richard Hadlee, Chris
  
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• Cricket unites to join English football’s weekend boycott of social media

  28-04-2021 13:58
  
  First-class counties in show of solidarity against racismWomen’s regional teams and players’ union also in protestEnglish and Welsh cricket will join this weekend’s boycott of social media by football clubs and players in a show of solidarity against online racism and discrimination.The England and Wales Cricket Board will be joined by all 18 first-class counties, the eight women’s regional teams and the Professional Cricketers’ Association in boycotting platforms b
  
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• Cricket unites to join British football’s weekend boycott of social media

  28-04-2021 13:58
  
  First-class counties in show of solidarity against racismWomen’s regional teams and players’ union also in protestEnglish and Welsh cricket will join this weekend’s boycott of social media by football clubs and players in a show of solidarity against online racism and discrimination.The England and Wales Cricket Board will be joined by all 18 first-class counties, the eight women’s regional teams and the Professional Cricketers’ Association in boycotting platforms b
  
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• Cricket and rugby join British football’s weekend boycott of social media

  28-04-2021 13:58
  
  First-class counties in show of solidarity against racismPremiership’s clubs follow suit, backed by players’ unionEnglish cricket and Premiership rugby will join the football-led sporting boycott of social media this weekend in a bid to force Twitter, Instagram and Facebook to tackle the issue of online racism and discrimination. Related: ‘Something drastic’: Stuart Broad would back social media boycott over abuseContinue reading...
  
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• Andrew Tye: Australian cricketer says coronavirus situation in India is 'harrowing'

  28-04-2021 13:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  IPL cricketer Andrew Tye says the coronavirus situation in India is "harrowing", and he is relieved to have flown home.
  
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• WG Grace, Don Bradman and the race to 1,000 runs before the end of May

  28-04-2021 13:03
  
  Only eight batsmen have hit 1,000 first-class runs before the end of May in a season. Will a ninth join the club this year?By Jo Harman for Wisden Cricket MonthlyWG was the first. Forty-six years young, in his 31st season as a first-class cricketer, and he didn’t get a hit until 9 May. By racking up nine centuries across the 1895 campaign, the game’s first great icon reached three figures on as many occasions as he’d managed across the previous six seasons; an unexpected Indian
  
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• IPL show lifts the gloom and will go on despite Covid crisis, claims BCCI official

  28-04-2021 11:35
  
  T20 competition will continue, according to one senior official‘Fans are absorbed, otherwise many will step out without masks’The Indian Premier League will continue as scheduled, a senior Indian cricket board official has said, despite fierce criticism of the Twenty20 competition being played in the midst of a surge in Covid cases that has gripped the world’s second most populous nation.India’s death toll surged past 200,000 on Wednesday and at least 300,000 people a day
  
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• Australians in IPL ‘pretty anxious’ about getting home, says players’ union

  28-04-2021 05:42
  
  Two wantaway players remain stranded in India after flight ban‘Conversations’ being had about chartering a flightAustralians involved in the Indian Premier League are “anxious” about how they will get home from the tournament as the Covid-19 crisis continues in India but they are not looking for any “free rides”, the head of the Australian Cricketers’ Association has said.Three Australian players have pulled out of the IPL but two remain stranded in Indi
  
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