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• ICC World Test Championship final: Kyle Jamieson helps New Zealand edge India

  20-06-2021 20:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Watch highlights as Kyle Jamieson's four wickets help New Zealand wrestle the initiative from India on a fascinating third day of the ICC World Test Championship final.
  
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• Kyle Jamieson stands tall as New Zealand gain WTC final edge over India

  20-06-2021 20:48 via theguardian.com
  
  WTC final, day three: India 217 all out, New Zealand 101-2Jamieson takes five for 31 in immaculate bowling displayThe sounds of the Bharat Army’s drummers rung around the Ageas Bowl on the third day of the World Test Championship final and in the end this energy finally told, India striking moments before bad light ended proceedings at 6.27pm to peg back New Zealand’s march towards a position of strength.It was Ishant Sharma, the old warhorse of Virat Kohli’s attack, who claime
  
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• Kyle Jamieson stands tall as New Zealand and India go toe to toe

  20-06-2021 20:48 via theguardian.com
  
  WTC final, day three: India 217 all out, New Zealand 101-2Jamieson takes five for 31 in immaculate bowling displayThe sounds of the Bharat Army’s drummers rung around the Ageas Bowl on the third day of the World Test Championship final and in the end this energy finally told, India striking moments before bad light ended proceedings at 6.27pm to peg back New Zealand’s march towards a position of strength.It was Ishant Sharma, the old warhorse of Virat Kohli’s attack, who claime
  
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• World Test Championship final: New Zealand edge third day against India in Southampton

  20-06-2021 20:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  New Zealand wrestle the initiative from India on a fascinating third day of the World Test Championship final in Southampton.
  
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• ICC World Test Championship final: New Zealand's Kyle Jamieson takes five wickets against India

  20-06-2021 20:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Watch Kyle Jamieson's five-wicket haul for New Zealand against India in the ICC World Test Championship final in Southampton.
  
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• T20 Blast: Ben Stokes and Joe Root help Durham and Yorkshire to victories

  20-06-2021 19:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ben Stokes and Joe Root are on the winning side for Durham and Yorkshire respectively, while Notts tie with Lancashire.
  
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• India v New Zealand: World Test Championship final, day three – as it happened

  20-06-2021 19:35 via theguardian.com
  
  New Zealand in a strong position, bowling India out for 217But Kohli’s team fought back well, claiming two late wickets 6.35pm BST India earned that. When Devon Conway went beyond 50, Kohli’s side were in real need of something. They got it on the cusp of stumps after two fine overs from Bumrah (and a string of maidens), set to return tomorrow 116 runs in the black and holding a ball that’s still hooping around. And on that note, thanks for your company. I’ll be back with
  
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• If football and cricket fans are allowed to sing, why can’t choirs? | Letters

  20-06-2021 19:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Alan Robinson, Paul Hill and Ian Wells on the continuing restrictions on choral singing under coronavirus regulationsOur small local choir was working hard towards a performance of Vivaldi’s Gloria for Easter 2020 when the pandemic struck. We immediately shut up shop, and have continued to follow government guidelines as to possible resumption dates, now postponed by a further four weeks (PM announces four-week delay to Covid lockdown easing in England, 14 June). Since March 2020, not a no
  
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• ‘Strauss and Collingwood were very open’: the man who helped cricket embrace data | Jonathan Liew

  20-06-2021 17:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Nathan Leamon has been an England analyst for more than a decade and has seen a culture shift in attitudes towards dataNathan Leamon laughs as he remembers the time he once got Andrew Strauss out in an Ashes Test. It was the Adelaide Test of 2010-11, and ahead of the game the Australians had recalled the left-armer Doug Bollinger to their attack. Not having faced Bollinger in a while, Strauss asked Leamon – still relatively new in his job as the team’s analyst – to put together
  
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• ‘Strauss and Collingwood were very open’: the man who helped cricket embrace data

  20-06-2021 17:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Nathan Leamon has been an England analyst for more than a decade and has seen a culture shift in attitudes towards dataNathan Leamon laughs as he remembers the time he once got Andrew Strauss out in an Ashes Test. It was the Adelaide Test of 2010-11, and ahead of the game the Australians had recalled the left-armer Doug Bollinger to their attack. Not having faced Bollinger in a while, Strauss asked Leamon – still relatively new in his job as the team’s analyst – to put together
  
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• ‘Analysis is about making the invisible visible’

  20-06-2021 17:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Nathan Leamon has been working for England as a statistical analysis for more than a decade and has seen a culture shift in the attitude towards dataNathan Leamon laughs as he remembers the time he once got Andrew Strauss out in an Ashes Test. It was the Adelaide Test of 2010-11, and ahead of the game the Australians had recalled the left-armer Doug Bollinger to their attack. Not having faced Bollinger in a while, Strauss asked Leamon – still relatively new in his job as the team’s a
  
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• ICC World Test Championship final: New Zealand's Kyle Jamieson takes back-to-back India wickets

  20-06-2021 15:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  New Zealand's Kyle Jamieson takes two India wickets in successive balls while also completing a five-wicket haul during the ICC World Test Championship final.
  
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• ICC World Test Championship final: India's Virat Kohli is trapped lbw by Kyle Jamieson of New Zealand

  20-06-2021 12:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Virat Kohli is trapped lbw by Kyle Jamieson as the Indian captain is out for 44 in the ICC World Test Championship final in Southampton.
  
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• Teenager Shafali Verma shines for India against England on Test debut

  20-06-2021 11:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Watch some of the best shots from India's 17-year-old sensation Shafali Verma, who starred in the drawn one-off Test match against England at Bristol.
  
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• India v New Zealand: World Test Championship final, day three – live!

  20-06-2021 10:32 via theguardian.com
  
  WTC final updates from the third day in SouthamptonThe Spin: sign up and get our free weekly cricket emailAnd you can email Tanya or tweet her @tjaldred 9.32am BST Good morning! The World Test Championship limps into its third day, soggy hems to its trousers, umbrella at the ready. There were 64.4 overs in yesterday’s weather- interrupted day: time for India to reach 146-3, with Virat Kohli on the brink of a half century. New Zealand’s seamers have impressed in the same way that they
  
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• England v India: Why Bristol match was perfect advert for women's Test cricket

  20-06-2021 09:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  After England's gripping draw against India, BBC Sport looks at the key moments - and why it was a perfect advert for Test cricket.
  
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