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• Rashid Khan: Afghanistan spinner stands down as Twenty20 captain

  09-09-2021 23:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rashid Khan stands down as Afghanistan T20 captain after not being included in conversations about squad selection for the World Cup.
  
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• T20 World Cup: Full squad list for tournament in UAE and Oman

  09-09-2021 23:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Full squad lists for the T20 Men's World Cup, which will be held in UAE and Oman between 17 October and 14 November.
  
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• England beat New Zealand to win women’s third T20 series – as it happened

  09-09-2021 23:39
  
  Sophia Dunkley hits the winning runs with a ball to spare as England beat New Zealand to win the T20 series 2-1Farrant gets hammered for four by Bates – so she goes round the wicket and bowls her! Great riposte.6th over: New Zealand 37-0 (Bates 27, Devine 9) The one thing Bates hasn’t done well is sharing the strike – in the first five overs, Sophie Devine faced only six balls. Facing Ecclestone, Devinenow gets four balls in a row, and takes a two and a single. And the powerpla
  
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• England v New Zealand: Sophia Dunkley sees England home to win T20 series

  09-09-2021 23:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England win the decisive final match against New Zealand by four wickets with one ball to spare at Taunton, to win the women's Twenty20 international series 2-1.
  
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• England v New Zealand T20: Heather Knight hits crucial knock on 200th appearance

  09-09-2021 23:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Captain Heather Knight scores 42 off 36 balls on her 200th appearance for England to help seal a four-wicket victory and 2-1 Twenty20 international series win against New Zealand.
  
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• Sophia Dunkley holds nerve to give England tense victory over New Zealand

  09-09-2021 23:02
  
  Third T20i: England, 145-6, beat New Zealand, 144-4, by 4 wktsFour off penultimate ball of England’s innings wins thrillerEngland narrowly scraped home in their T20 series decider against New Zealand at Taunton, chasing down their target of 145 with just one ball to spare. Captain Heather Knight – who had sat out the first two T20s with a hamstring injury – steered England to within touching distance of the victory with a calm 42 from 36 balls, but was caught at mid-off in the
  
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• England win a thriller to wrap up the women’s T20 series – live!

  09-09-2021 22:49
  
  Updates from the decider in the three-match seriesSecond T20: Devine guides NZ to victory to set up deciderAnd you can get in touch with Tim by email or TwitterFarrant gets hammered for four by Bates – so she goes round the wicket and bowls her! Great riposte.6th over: New Zealand 37-0 (Bates 27, Devine 9) The one thing Bates hasn’t done well is sharing the strike – in the first five overs, Sophie Devine faced only six balls. Facing Ecclestone, Devinenow gets four balls in a ro
  
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• Kohli intent on cementing legacy with series win for India in England | Ali Martin

  09-09-2021 22:00
  
  Joe Root’s team must win at Old Trafford to draw the series but tourists have the edge despite another Covid scareAustralia’s cricketers partied long into the night on the outfield here two years ago. They had taken a 2-1 lead over England, retained the Ashes and, to empty stands and with beers in hand, gave a drawling rendition of True Blue by the folk singer John Williamson.Tim Paine, their captain, looked to gee up his players before the subsequent fifth Test at the Oval, dubbing
  
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• England v New Zealand T20: Amy Jones' sharp catch dismisses Maddy Green

  09-09-2021 21:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England wicketkeeper Amy Jones shows lightning reactions to catch Maddy Green as New Zealand put on 144-4 in the decisive third Twenty20 international at Taunton.
  
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• New Zealand set England target of 145: third women’s T20 international – live!

  09-09-2021 21:11
  
  Updates from the final match in the T20 seriesSecond T20: Devine guides NZ to victory to set up deciderAnd you can get in touch with Tim by email or TwitterFarrant gets hammered for four by Bates – so she goes round the wicket and bowls her! Great riposte.6th over: New Zealand 37-0 (Bates 27, Devine 9) The one thing Bates hasn’t done well is sharing the strike – in the first five overs, Sophie Devine faced only six balls. Facing Ecclestone, Devinenow gets four balls in a row, a
  
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• England v India 2021: Fifth Test to go ahead after India return negative Covid results

  09-09-2021 20:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The fifth Test between England and India is set to go ahead after no further positive Covid-19 tests were returned by the tourists.
  
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• England v New Zealand T20: Suzie Bates hits 34 from 30 balls

  09-09-2021 20:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Watch all six boundaries of Suzie Bates' innings as the New Zealand opener hits 34 from 30 balls in the decisive third Twenty20 international against England at Taunton.
  
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• India players overcome Covid scare before fifth Test against England

  09-09-2021 20:12
  
  Players cleared emergency round of testing on ThursdayFourth member of India staff had tested positive for virusEnglish cricket breathed a sigh of relief yesterday evening following news that India’s players have cleared an emergency round of Covid-19 testing and Friday’s fifth Test at Old Trafford should go ahead as planned.Virat Kohli’s tourists, who sit 2-1 up with one to play and looking to secure their first series win in England since 2007, were forced to remain in their
  
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• Jos Buttler: ‘I certainly haven’t played my best by a long stretch’ | Tanya Aldred

  09-09-2021 19:32
  
  The England vice-captain has struggled with the bat but he insists his side can beat India in the fifth Test to level the seriesJos Buttler has no taste for revealing his innermost thoughts to a hungry press pack. So it was little wonder that he was cagey on his return to the Test team, after a match off to attend the birth of his second daughter, Maggie.Buttler will take back the wicketkeeping gloves after Jonny Bairstow slipped into the caretaker role at the Oval – generally going about
  
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• England v New Zealand: third women’s T20 international – live!

  09-09-2021 18:44
  
  Updates from the final match in the T20 seriesSecond T20: Devine guides NZ to victory to set up deciderAnd you can get in touch with Tim by email or TwitterEvening everyone and welcome to the third and final T20 between England and New Zealand. Douglas Adams said the answer to life, the universe and everything was 42. If he’d been a sportswriter, he might have been tempted to scrap that and say the answer was 1-1. All the best cricket series, like all the best football matches, go by way o
  
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• Jaskaran Malhotra: USA batsman hits six sixes in over in ODI v Papua New Guinea

  09-09-2021 18:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  United States batsman Jaskaran Malhotra becomes the ninth man to hit six sixes in an over in top-level cricket.
  
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• Kyle Coetzer leads Scots for T20 World Cup as Jonathan Trott joins coaching team

  09-09-2021 16:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Kyle Coetzer will captain an experienced Scotland side for next month's T20 World Cup in the UAE and Oman.
  
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• County Championship: Middlesex win after Tom Haines passes 1,000 runs

  09-09-2021 16:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Middlesex wrap up a big win at Sussex, despite Tom Haines becoming the first man to pass 1,000 Championship runs this season.
  
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• England have ‘fingers crossed’ fifth Test goes ahead after India’s Covid scare

  09-09-2021 16:26
  
  Reports suggest new member of India staff has virusAfternoon net session scrapped pending developmentsJos Buttler said England have “fingers crossed” that the fifth Test goes ahead on Friday after India cancelled their final pre-match training session amid reports of a new coronavirus scare.India head coach Ravi Shastri tested positive during the previous match at the Kia Oval, alongside bowling coach Bharat Arun and fielding coach R Sridhar, with all three remaining in isolation whi
  
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• T20 World Cup 2021: England name Tymal Mills in preliminary squad

  09-09-2021 13:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sussex fast bowler Tymal Mills is named in England's preliminary T20 World Cup squad and returns to the international set-up for the first time since February 2016.
  
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• Tymal Mills earns England T20 World Cup squad place after four-year absence

  09-09-2021 12:00
  
  Sussex fast bowler gets chance owing to Jofra Archer injuryStokes continues to take indefinite break from all cricketThe Sussex fast bowler Tymal Mills returns to the international set-up for the first time in four years in the England T20 Men’s World Cup squad announced on Thursday. Mills gets his chance with Jofra Archer ruled out by injury, while Ben Stokes continues to take an indefinite break from all cricket to prioritise his mental wellbeing.Mills has been impressive this summer in
  
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• Afghanistan cricket: Australia will cancel men's Test if women's team banned

  09-09-2021 09:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Cricket Australia (CA) will cancel its men's Test match with Afghanistan if reports that the women's team cannot play under Taliban rule are true.
  
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• Australia’s Test against Afghanistan set to be cancelled over Taliban ban on women’s sport

  09-09-2021 04:23
  
  Cricket Australia ‘no alternative’ but to cancel gameCalls for ICC to take stand against Taliban-led countryAustralia’s one-off Test match against Afghanistan, scheduled to start in Hobart on 27 November, will be cancelled if the Taliban does not support women’s cricket, Cricket Australia has said. In a statement released on Thursday the sport’s national governing body said: “Driving the growth of women’s cricket globally is incredibly important to Crick
  
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• Australia’s Test against Afghanistan on shaky ground after Taliban ban on women’s sport

  09-09-2021 01:31
  
  Match in Hobart in doubt after women’s cricket outlawedCalls for ICC to take stand against Taliban-led countryAustralia’s one-off Test against Afghanistan is in serious doubt with federal sports minister Richard Colbeck calling on world cricket’s governing body to take action against the Taliban-led country, following its ban on women’s sport.A spokesman for the Taliban’s cultural commission, Ahmadullah Wasiq told SBS News on Wednesday women who played cricket might
  
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