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• The Hundred: a team-by-team guide to the women’s competition

  19-07-2021 19:00
  
  From Southampton to Headingley, here are the players to look out for in this summer’s new tournamentCoach Ben Sawyer Captain Amy Jones Related: The Hundred has won me over but it remains a gamble for cricket in England | Ebony Rainford-BrentRelated: ECB’s Tom Harrison insists the Hundred will go ahead despite CovidContinue reading...
  
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• Cricket writers unite to salute ‘the finest of all’, John Woodcock | Tim de Lisle

  19-07-2021 18:47
  
  The Times’ long-serving cricket correspondent, who has died aged 94, has been hailed as ‘the doyen … the Godfather’With the death of John Woodcock, at the age of 94, the world of cricket has lost not just one of its greatest writers, but one of its best-loved characters.Woodcock was the cricket correspondent of the Times from 1954, when Len Hutton’s England team went to Australia and won the Ashes, to 1987, when Mike Gatting called a Pakistani umpire names that the
  
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• Cricket writers unite to salute ‘the finest of all’, John Woodcock

  19-07-2021 18:47
  
  The Times’ long-serving cricket correspondent, who has died aged 94, has been hailed as ‘the doyen … the Godfather’With the death of John Woodcock, at the age of 94, the world of cricket has lost not just one of its greatest writers, but one of its best-loved characters.Woodcock was the cricket correspondent of the Times from 1954, when Len Hutton’s England team went to Australia and won the Ashes, to 1987, when Mike Gatting called a Pakistani umpire names that the
  
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• Boris in isolation? There is a God after all | Brief letters

  19-07-2021 17:32
  
  The Hundred | Cultural confusion | Zoe Williams | Boris Johnson | SeaweedEbony Rainford-Brent (The Hundred has won me over but it remains a gamble for cricket in England, 17 July) sees the potential of the new cricket competition, the Hundred, and likes “the marketing, the imagery, the kind of music that’s been booked”. Which is like choosing your new car because you like the windscreen wipers and ashtrays.David HoultStockport, Greater Manchester• A case of cultural rather
  
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• County cricket: Hampshire’s double delight in Championship and Blast

  19-07-2021 17:31
  
  Joy for Hampshire and dismay for Gloucestershire as Championship divisions and T20 Blast knockouts are setBy Gary Naylor for the 99.94 Cricket BlogRather than an over (so passé after all), this week’s column could become an example of the Queen of Hearts’ “six impossible things before breakfast” as county cricket descended down a rabbit hole and into a strange world of comings and goings, and one not getting started again at all. Two competitions reached the end of
  
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• Matt Parkinson takes chance to make up for lost time with England

  19-07-2021 17:09
  
  Leg- spinner went on winter tour but was uncappedParkinson to face Pakistan at Old Trafford on TuesdayMatt Parkinson endured some dark moments earlier this year when he was the sole England cricketer to undertake the entire three-month tour of Sri Lanka and India and earned zero caps for his troubles. But on Tuesday the effervescent Lancashire leg-spinner is poised to play a first international at his home ground of Old Trafford, with a Twenty20 series against Pakistan on the line and a chance t
  
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• John Woodcock obituary

  19-07-2021 14:33
  
  Long-serving cricket correspondent for the Times who also spent six years as editor of WisdenEvery time there is an on-field occurrence – wicket, goal, whatever – at a sporting event, the journalists present will huddle to make sure their interpretation of the incident is precise. This was especially true in the old days, when television replays were either unavailable or unsophisticated. In the cricket press box, though, one figure would stay apart. John Woodcock, the long-serving c
  
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• The Hundred: Seven reasons why you should watch the new 100-ball competition

  19-07-2021 07:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Whether you're watching live on TV, listening to radio commentary or following live text, here are seven reasons why you should follow The Hundred.
  
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