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• Ashes series order altered with no local warm-ups for England in Australia

  18-05-2021 22:30
  
  Travelling fans likely to be absent for rejigged tourFinal test scheduled for Perth in middle of JanuaryAn Ashes tour like no other awaits England’s men next winter, with a rejigged order of host venues, a mid-January finish, no warm-up games against local opposition and the possibility that their travelling support may be absent.Announcing the fixtures for the 2021-22 tour on Tuesday, Australia and England confirmed the widely reported news that the structure of recent men’s Ashes s
  
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• Chris Silverwood wants England to use summer as preparation for Ashes

  18-05-2021 19:43
  
  James Bracey and Ollie Robinson in a 15-man squad
  ‘Play to our abilities, it will help us win the Ashes’Andy Flower banned any talk of the Ashes when England hosted New Zealand in early 2013, a month before the back-to-back series against Australia when they triumphed at home but then disintegrated Down Under.Fast forward to the present day and Flower’s equivalent has no such qualms. Players have been told to move away from the word “bubble” for mental health reason
  
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• England name Bracey and Robinson in Test squad to face New Zealand

  18-05-2021 16:00
  
  Pair called up for first caps after 12 months in reservesCraig Overton returns for first time since 2019 AshesChris Silverwood has named a 15-man squad for next month’s two-Test series against New Zealand, with James Bracey and Ollie Robinson receiving their first full call-ups after 12 months spent among the reserves.As well as Craig Overton, who returns for the first time since winning the last of his four caps during the 2019 Ashes, the pair get this chance in Silverwood’s first s
  
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• The Spin | Jofra Archer, Frank Tyson and the need for speed in cricket

  18-05-2021 14:55
  
  The war of Jenkins’ Ear lasted nine years. You guess the worry of Jofra Archer’s elbow will run for at least nine monthsEarly in May 1955, Paramount sent a camera crew to the county ground in Northampton to film Frank Tyson. They brought a new “multi-speed camera” to “show how Tyson does it” in slow motion. The previous winter Tyson had won England the Ashes in Australia, 10 wickets in the second Test at Sydney, nine in the third at Melbourne, six in the fourt
  
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• Australian bowlers insist they had no knowledge of Cape Town ball tampering

  18-05-2021 10:57
  
  Cummins, Hazlewood, Starc and Lyon issue joint statement‘Disappointing to see our integrity has been questioned’ Cameron Bancroft interview: ‘I lost control of my values’Australia’s bowling group from the Cape Town Test match in 2018 has responded after comments made by teammate Cameron Bancroft, insisting they had no knowledge of the ball tampering which resulted in bans for Bancroft, David Warner and Steve Smith.Speaking to the Guardian last week, Bancroft was ask
  
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• Joe Root: England captain on impact of climate change on cricket

  18-05-2021 08:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England captain Joe Root says it is "scary" to think that cricket may not be in 30 years' time because of the impact of climate change.
  
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• Relax! Australia’s cricket stars are back – but it’s not a double standard, right? | Dom Knight

  18-05-2021 04:03
  
  Given the restrictions placed on Australians stuck in India, the treatment of our cricketers feels fairly nauseatingEverybody relax – our male cricket stars are back from India. Or in fact from the Maldives, where they’d been whisked to safety from the pandemic that has been devastating millions in India who weren’t lucky enough to be whisked to the Maldives.The players flew into Sydney Airport on Monday aboard a flight chartered by the Indian cricket authorities, who seem far
  
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