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• James Vince leads from front as Brave breeze past Rockets into Hundred final

  20-08-2021 22:23
  
  Captain Vince hits unbeaten 45; Brave triumph by seven wicketsBrave will play Birmingham Phoenix in Lord’s final on SaturdayOn a cool, translucent night at The Oval, Trent Rockets were bowled out for 96 and trounced by seven wickets in a performance that will go down as one of the most ignominious in the venerable and storied history of the Rockets franchise. For the long-suffering Rockets fans, the agonising wait for a Lord’s final goes on for another year.For the Southern Brave, me
  
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• The Hundred men’s eliminator: Southern Brave beat Trent Rockets – live!

  20-08-2021 21:52
  
  Updates from the Oval as sides chase final place (starts 3pm BST)Oval Invincibles beat Birmingham Phoenix in women’s eliminatorGet in touch! Email Geoff here or tweet @GeoffLemonSport 8.52pm BST Southern Brave Women will play the Oval Invincibles, while Southern Brave Men will play Birmingham Phoenix, for the first title in this new competition. We will have that coverage for you on the OBO, as ever. Till then.8.47pm BST Seven wickets in hand, and a very comfortable win. Both the women&rsq
  
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• Danni Wyatt: Can top batter hit a cricket ball into a bin?

  20-08-2021 21:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Sport's Betty Glover tests out Southern Brave's Danni Wyatt’s batting accuracy with three challenges.
  
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• Tash Farrant exploits Phoenix batting to send Invincibles into Hundred final

  20-08-2021 20:12
  
  Farrant takes four for 10 as Invincibles win by 20 runsWinners face Southern Brave in final at Lord’s on SaturdayIn front of a boisterous home crowd Oval Invincibles triumphed in the eliminator of the women’s Hundred, setting up a tantalising final against Southern Brave at Lord’s on Saturday afternoon. But it would be just as accurate to point out that Birmingham Phoenix threw this game away: from a dominant position at the halfway stage of their chase, they were bowled out fo
  
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• Tash Farrant exploits Phoenix batting panic to send Invincibles into final

  20-08-2021 20:12
  
  Farrant takes four for 10 as Invincibles win by 20 runsWinners face Southern Brave in final at Lord’s on SaturdayIn front of a boisterous home crowd Oval Invincibles triumphed in the eliminator of the women’s Hundred, setting up a tantalising final against Southern Brave at Lord’s on Saturday afternoon. But it would be just as accurate to point out that Birmingham Phoenix threw this game away: from a dominant position at the halfway stage of their chase, they were bowled out fo
  
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• The Hundred men’s eliminator: Southern Brave v Trent Rockets – live!

  20-08-2021 18:55
  
  Updates from the Oval as sides chase final place (starts 3pm BST)Oval Invincibles beat Birmingham Phoenix in women’s eliminatorGet in touch! Email Geoff here or tweet @GeoffLemonSport 5.41pm BST That will come tomorrow, after playing at their home ground at The Oval today. Quite a remarkable performance, but you’d expect that with the experience they have in the side. They will take on Southern Brave tomorrow.Marizanne Kapp, top scored across both sides for 37 with the bat, then took
  
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• Jamie Porter: Essex seamer signs new contract until 2024

  20-08-2021 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Essex pace bowler Jamie Porter signs a new contract until the end of the 2024 county campaign.
  
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• Sports quiz of the week: Premier League, Paralympics and Pacquiao

  20-08-2021 16:17
  
  Who cost a fortune? Who gave away the prize? Who left it late?Maria Andrejczyk won a silver medal in the javelin at the Olympics in Tokyo. What has she done with her medal?She melted it down and turned it into a wedding ringShe had it plated with gold as she feels as if she "was the real winner" She auctioned it off for a toddler who needed the money to pay for life-saving heart surgery She had to see her vet as her dog ate it. (The dog was OK)The Paralympics begin on Tuesday in Tokyo. Which two
  
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• The Hundred women’s eliminator: Oval Invincibles v Birmingham Phoenix – live!

  20-08-2021 15:17
  
  Updates from the Oval as sides chase final place (starts 3pm BST)Southern Brave v Trent Rockets in men’s eliminator at 6.30pmGet in touch! Email Geoff here or tweet @GeoffLemonSport 2.17pm BST As ever, on the OBO. Email, tweets, all of those two options. 2.17pm BST The Hundred Eliminators. The stage that every child has dreamed of appearing on, since time immemorial. The Oval Invincibles won the first match ever played in The Hundred in dramatic style, when Mady Villiers hit a six in the f
  
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• I need a sport to call my own. Can I teach myself to be a cricket fan? | Coco Khan

  20-08-2021 15:00
  
  I grew up with cricket in my family background and love the pleasing thud of leather on willow – now I just need the knowledgeIn 2019, I decided I was going to make cricket “my thing”. I had looked longingly at my boyfriend’s relationship to football – how it had shaped his life, from semi-professional play and weekly five-a-side, to teammates turned best friends and an instant ice-breaker with strangers on holiday.I wanted a piece of the action. And so, treating my
  
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• Underdogs Glamorgan win One-Day Cup, their first trophy in 17 years

  20-08-2021 12:17
  
  Glamorgan upset the odds against Essex in the semi-finals and then enjoyed a romantic victory against Durham in the finalBy Gary Naylor for the 99.94 Cricket BlogFavourites Essex had a good start away at Glamorgan in the first of the One-Day Cup semi-finals on Monday, Alastair Cook being the unlikely aggressor early on. His was the first wicket to fall, out for 68 at better than a run a ball, a victim of club call-up Steve Reingold. With 30 overs gone, the visitors were 151-2 and eyeing a score
  
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• Chris Cairns: Former New Zealand all-rounder off life support and recovering, lawyer confirms

  20-08-2021 08:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns is off life support and recovering in hospital after emergency surgery in Sydney for a heart problem, his lawyer confirms.
  
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• The Hundred: Trent Rockets, Oval Invincibles, Southern Brave & Birmingham Phoenix set for eliminators

  20-08-2021 08:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Stars on show as four teams bid for their place in the inaugural Hundred finals in the eliminators on Friday at The Oval.
  
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• World Cup selection fails to solve Australia’s historical T20 problem | Geoff Lemon

  20-08-2021 07:19
  
  As has been the case for years there is a glut of top-order players picked for the tournament in the UAE without those to finish We all know that players get better when they’re out of the team. At least, they get better in the mind’s eye. Especially in sports like cricket or baseball, where statistically players fail more than they succeed, those in the team have to carry the weight of those failures, while supporters are irresistibly drawn to imagine the triumph that might have awa
  
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• The Hundred: Women's players reflect on rules, pay, double-headers & future of women's cricket

  20-08-2021 07:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Anya Shrubsole, Dane van Niekerk, Jemimah Rodrigues, Stafanie Taylor and Katie Levick join a BBC Sport roundtable to reflect on The Hundred.
  
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• The Hundred: Hales, Parkinson, Brunt - watch 10 memorable moments

  20-08-2021 07:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Watch 10 memorable moments from the inaugural season of The Hundred, featuring Imran Tahir's hat-trick, Katherine Brunt v Shafali Verma, and Ravi Bopara's underpants.
  
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• Countdown Cricket Cup: Bradford Park Avenue girls battle it out

  20-08-2021 07:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  MOTDx's Ben Cajee follows Bradford sisters and cricket lovers Nabila and Qulzum and the Bradford Park Avenue Ladies as they battle it out for the first Countdown Cricket Cup
  
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• Tim Paine seeks to rally support for Justin Langer after ‘robust’ talks with Cricket Australia

  20-08-2021 05:30
  
  Test captain meets with other influential figuresImportant to ‘get around’ embattled coach, says PaineTest skipper Tim Paine has backed Justin Langer to continue after some “tough and robust conversations” with Cricket Australia and is now calling on his teammates to rally around the under-pressure coach.Player unease and public debate about Langer prompted a meeting between Paine, limited-overs captain Aaron Finch, vice-captain Pat Cummins plus CA heavyweights Earl Eddin
  
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• Former New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns off life support after heart surgery

  20-08-2021 02:50
  
  All-rounder able to communicate with family from hospitalFifty-one-year-old suffered ‘major medical event’ this monthFormer New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns is off life support and recovering in hospital after emergency surgery in Sydney for a heart problem, his lawyer said on Friday.“I’m pleased to advise that Chris is off life support and has been able to communicate with his family from hospital in Sydney,” Aaron Lloyd said in a statement. Related: Steve Smit
  
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