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• County cricket day three: Yorkshire beat Northants, Notts go top – as it happened

  06-07-2021 21:26
  
  Yorkshire beat Northamptonshire by 53 runs while an innings victory against bottom-placed Derbyshire left Nottinghamshire at the top of Group One 8.22pm BST Yorkshire beat Northamptonshire by 53 runs at Wantage Road, set up by a century from Harry Brook. He made hay while wickets tumbled at the other end, Simon Kerrigan pocketing five for 39.Northamptonshire’s pursuit of 206 could not have started with less pizazz as they lost three wickets for two runs either side of tea. Luke Procter and
  
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• County Championship: Ben Stokes exits Bears-Durham game at Edgbaston after England call

  06-07-2021 20:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Only 55 overs are possible on a rain-hit day at Edgbaston as Durham, without Ben Stokes and Brydon Carse, reach 173-5 against Warwickshire.
  
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• County Championship: Luke Wood stretches Lancashire lead over Kent

  06-07-2021 20:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Luke Wood hits an unbeaten 63 as Lancashire stretch their lead to 185 on a shortened day three against Kent.
  
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• County Championship: Hampshire bowl Surrey out for 72 to move towards innings win

  06-07-2021 20:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hampshire bowl Surrey out for just 72 to move towards an innings victory at the Ageas Bowl.
  
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• County Championship: Notts beat Derbyshire by an innings in three days

  06-07-2021 19:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Luke Fletcher takes a match haul of 8-64 as Notts hammer Derbyshire by an innings inside three days at Trent Bridge.
  
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• England v India: Danni Wyatt and Mady Villiers recalled for IT20 series

  06-07-2021 18:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Danni Wyatt and Mady Villiers recalled for England for IT20 series against India
  
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• County Championship: Harry Brook's century helps Yorkshire beat Northamptonshire

  06-07-2021 18:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Harry Brook's brilliant century steers Yorkshire to a 53-run win over Northants at Wantage Road.
  
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• England v Pakistan: ODI team 'on a knife edge' - Ashley Giles

  06-07-2021 18:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Director of cricket Ashley Giles says England are working on a "knife edge" after their one-day squad was hit by a coronavirus outbreak.
  
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• Aatif Nawaz column: Azam Khan is one to watch in England v Pakistan series

  06-07-2021 14:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Pakistan's Azam Khan - son of former Pakistan captain Moin Khan - is one to watch in series against England, writes TMS' Aatif Nawaz.
  
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• The Spin | A fitting end for Jimmy Anderson’s 1,000th first-class wicket

  06-07-2021 13:45
  
  Of the few bowlers to have reached four figures, none of them did so at such an appropriate venue as the master of swingMost people don’t get an end named after them at a sports ground. Those that do usually have to wait until they’ve finished playing. Poor Fred Trueman was long dead before Headingley belatedly got round to honouring him with an enclosure. But most people aren’t Jimmy Anderson.It was from his very own James Anderson End that he took his 1,000th first-class wick
  
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• England on a knife edge, says Ashley Giles, as ODI squad starts isolation

  06-07-2021 13:04
  
  Entirely new squad named to play Pakistan in ODIs‘I don’t believe we’ve gambled,’ says GilesAshley Giles admitted England have been operating on “a knife edge” this summer, trying to balance biosecurity with the mental wellbeing of players, after an outbreak of Covid-19 cases forced the entire one-day international squad into isolation and once again highlighted the perils facing professional sport at present.In a dramatic sequence of events on Tuesday morning
  
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• England v Pakistan: Hosts name nine uncapped players in new squad after Covid-19 outbreak

  06-07-2021 12:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England name a new squad for their ODI series with Pakistan after three players and four staff members tested positive for Covid-19.
  
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• Entire England cricket squad in isolation after seven test positive for Covid

  06-07-2021 12:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  England have announced an entire new squad for the ODI series against Pakistan after three players and four staff members tested positive for COVID-19.
  
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• County cricket day three: Lancashire v Kent, Somerset v Leicestershire – live!

  06-07-2021 10:45
  
  Latest updates from Old Trafford and around the groundsT20 Blast comes to the boil as teams battle to reach last eightGet in touch: email Tanya, tweet or comment below 9.45am BST There will have been some very excited county cricketers this morning following the news that an entire new England squad must be picked. Here is the ECB statement:“Following PCR tests administered yesterday (Monday) in Bristol, The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) can confirm that seven members - three playe
  
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• Covid-19 outbreak forces England’s one-day cricket squad into isolation

  06-07-2021 10:22
  
  Three players and four team members test positive for Covid-19Ben Stokes will captain new squad for Pakistan ODIs and T20sEngland’s one-day cricket squad have been plunged into isolation after seven members of the bubble tested positive for Covid-19.Three players and four members of the team management tested positive yesterday and will self-isolate along with the remainder of the ODI squad who were deemed close contacts. Continue reading...
  
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