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• Recovering Stuart Broad has his sights set on key opening Ashes Test

  16-10-2021 23:00
  
  England stalwart has resumed bowling and his research tells him that a lack of express pace may not cost his side in AustraliaStuart Broad has had a lot of time on his hands these past two months, while he has been nursing the torn calf muscle that meant he played in only the first Test of the series with India. Judging by the way he spoke during a grassroots cricket event run by LV in Leyton on Friday, he has put it to good use plotting how to go about his comeback in Australia.Broad has clearl
  
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• Liam Livingstone: ‘My biggest goal is Test cricket – how that happens, I don’t know’

  16-10-2021 19:00
  
  White-ball wonder was the surprise omission from England’s Ashes plans, but winning the T20 World Cup takes priorityLiam Livingstone has been making headlines all year, but the latest came without him even lifting his bat. Having been tipped by many to feature in England’s Ashes squad he ended up not only out of that, but absent from the 14-man Lions group that will accompany them to Australia.Mo Bobat, the ECB’s performance director, said “it felt like there were other p
  
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• T20 World Cup: England among favourites as men's tournament begins

  16-10-2021 15:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  With the men's T20 World Cup starting on Sunday, BBC Sport casts an eye over the competition and looks at why England are among the favourites.
  
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• T20 World Cup: Captain Kyle Coetzer backs Scotland to 'make a scene'

  16-10-2021 11:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scotland head for the T20 World Cup in the UAE and Oman with a squad "as powerful as what we have ever had", says Kyle Coetzer.
  
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• Ireland and Scotland target top table as T20 World Cup gets under way

  16-10-2021 09:00
  
  Irish have underperformed at recent tournaments and Scots have toiled of late but both have realistic hopes of the Super 12sFive and a half years since Carlos Brathwaite ended the last Twenty20 World Cup on an unforgettable high, this year’s tournament begins on Sunday with a match for which the phrase low-key doesn’t quite cut it.As Oman take on Papua New Guinea at the 3,000-capacity Al Amerat Stadium in Muscat the key will be positively subterranean. The first round will feature fi
  
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• ‘It’s amazing’: Moeen Ali wins IPL as Chennai beat Kolkata in Dubai final

  16-10-2021 00:20
  
  Chennai (192-3) beat Kolkata Knight Riders (165-9)Moeen becomes first Englishman to win IPL titleMoeen Ali became the first Englishman to win the Indian Premier League after Chennai Super Kings beat Kolkata Knight Riders in Friday’s final.Ali, who announced his retirement from Test cricket in September, scored a 20-ball 37 as CSK set a target of 192 in Dubai. But despite an impressive start – with Shubman Gill (51) and Venkatesh Iyer (50) both making half-centuries – KKR slumpe
  
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