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• Glamorgan close on win over Lancs: county cricket – as it happened

  04-06-2021 21:18
  
  Glamorgan need another 51 runs to seal victory in a low-scoring game while Yorkshire and Hampshire both rallied from unsteady starts 8.18pm BST A gripping finale to the low-scoring game at Sophia Gardens bubbled up as Glamorgan chased 188 to beat Lancashire. With Saqib Mahmood straining every sinew and Matt Parkinson twirling with intent, conditions were challenging. Joe Cooke and David Lloyd gave Glamorgan a promising start, Cooke bringing up the 50 stand with a six over square leg, before slam
  
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• Glamorgan close on win over Lancashire: county cricket – as it happened

  04-06-2021 21:18
  
  Glamorgan need another 51 runs to seal victory in a low-scoring game while Yorkshire and Hampshire both rallied from unsteady starts 8.18pm BST A gripping finale to the low-scoring game at Sophia Gardens bubbled up as Glamorgan chased 188 to beat Lancashire. With Saqib Mahmood straining every sinew and Matt Parkinson twirling with intent, conditions were challenging. Joe Cooke and David Lloyd gave Glamorgan a promising start, Cooke bringing up the 50 stand with a six over square leg, before slam
  
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• The need for speed: Mark Wood deserves his moment of supremacy | Barney Ronay

  04-06-2021 21:00
  
  The world’s quickest bowler is also England’s best and remains an impossibly likable everyday sporting heroSpeed has always been a fascination in sport, from the first Olympic event, the Stadion – essentially an oiled-up naked foot race – to the sense of wellbeing to be found in rewatching YouTube films of Jeff Thompson slingshotting a cricket ball into the chests of sad, stiff-collared Englishmen.There is something here that stands outside the nuts and bolts of scorecard
  
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• The need for speed: Mark Wood deserves his moment of supremacy

  04-06-2021 21:00
  
  The world’s quickest bowler is also England’s best and remains an impossibly likable everyday sporting heroSpeed has always been a fascination in sport, from the first Olympic event, the Stadion – essentially an oiled-up naked foot race – to the sense of wellbeing to be found in rewatching YouTube films of Jeff Thompson slingshotting a cricket ball into the chests of sad, stiff-collared Englishmen.There is something here that stands outside the nuts and bolts of scorecard
  
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• New Zealand’s Devon Conway makes remarkable rise from obscurity

  04-06-2021 19:25
  
  Opener who spent years on the fringes of professional cricket now has the highest score by a Test debutant in EnglandDevon Conway was out in the middle for a quarter of an hour before he actually did any batting on Wednesday morning. His partner, Tom Latham, took one single off the last ball of the first over, another off the last ball of the second, and faced all of the third himself, so the game was into its fourth over before Conway finally got to face his first ball. Eight hours (and 136 run
  
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• From the Lancs League to Lord’s: remarkable rise of Devon Conway

  04-06-2021 19:25
  
  New Zealand opener who spent years on fringes of the game now has the highest score by a Test debutant in EnglandDevon Conway was out in the middle for a quarter of an hour before he actually did any batting on Wednesday morning. His partner, Tom Latham, took one single off the last ball of the first over, another off the last ball of the second, and faced all of the third himself, so the game was into its fourth over before Conway finally got to face his first ball. Eight hours (and 136 runs) l
  
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• England v New Zealand: first Test, day three abandoned – as it didn’t happen

  04-06-2021 17:41
  
  Day three at Lord’s came and went without a single ball bowled due to persistent rain. Play resumes on Saturday with 98 overs planned 4.41pm BST Thanks for your company. It’s a bit odd when we sit around here talking for hours on days when it rains, but it’s always entertaining. Have nice weekends. We’ll try again on the OBO from 10am. Bye! 4.38pm BST Ah well. 98 overs tomorrow, the ECB say, with play from 11am. 4.33pm BST “Hi Adam!” Neil Bell in Sweden, good
  
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• Somerset v Hampshire, Glamorgan v Lancashire and more: county cricket – live!

  04-06-2021 14:06
  
  Rolling coverage of all the action from around the groundsThursday’s report: Sussex’s Brown frustrates Yorkshire
  England v New Zealand: first Test, day three – live!Email Tanya with any thoughts | Tweet @tjaldred 1.06pm BST Group oneDerby: Derbyshire 61-2 v Warwicks 274 12.59pm BST Godleman straggles back to the Derby pavilion after being caught behind for 32. Derby 61-2 shortly before lunch. At Headingley, the Yorkshire openers are still whole, if with an uneven scorecard. Koh
  
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• Somerset v Hampshire, Glamorgan v Yorkshire and more: county cricket – live!

  04-06-2021 11:39
  
  Rolling coverage of all the action from around the groundsThursday’s report: Sussex’s Brown frustrates Yorkshire
  England v New Zealand: first Test, day three – live!Email Tanya with any thoughts | Tweet @tjaldred 10.39am BST On a morning of cloud cover so heavy that the Headingley floodlights were switched on, and 2,056 souls planted their behinds around the ground for the first time for a men’s county game since 2019, Yorkshire chose to bowl.With Sussex 68 for four just
  
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