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• England’s Ashes approach is scrambling the brains of the next cricketing generation | Mark Ramprakash

  09-12-2025 19:00
  This squad aren’t just throwing away the series, they’re messing up the minds of the young cricketers I try to coachThe cracks are starting to show with this England team and with the narrative we’ve been fed for three years after another defeat. Their identity of always taking the aggressive option, of relentlessly putting pressure on their opponents, isn’t holding up to scrutiny. So far in this series they haven’t had the strength needed to achieve it, and they ha
  
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• Shouting at the class has never been OK | Brief letters

  09-12-2025 17:42
  Teaching methods | Holly stripped bare | Cricket in state schools | Flat Earth Society physics prize | Impact School of MotoringAs a retired teacher with family and friends who are still in the profession, I must take exception to John Harris’s assertion that our current method of education consists of “standing in front of 30 kids and shouting at them for an hour” (The right’s callous overdiagnosis bandwagon is rolling. Wes Streeting should not be on it, 7 December)
  
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• England dealt fresh Ashes blow with Mark Wood ruled out for rest of series

  09-12-2025 07:41
  Fast bowler says: ‘My knee just hasn’t held up’Matthew Fisher called up in buildup to Adelaide Test The blows just keep coming for England in Australia. On Tuesday came confirmation that Mark Wood will miss the remainder of the Ashes tour because of a knee problem that resurfaced after the first Test defeat in Perth.It represents a heartbreaking setback for Wood following a lengthy battle to be fit for a series that England now find themselves trailing 2-0. The 35-year-old unde
  
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• Ashes Weekly: Starc shines for Australia as England slump again – podcast

  09-12-2025 05:00
  Max Rushden is joined by Geoff Lemon, Ali Martin and James Wallace to discuss another humbling defeat for England as Australia took full control of the series in Brisbane, with Mitchell Starc starring with both bat and ballRead more: Continue reading...
  
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• My first cricket hero was Imran Khan. Now I close my eyes and replay Mitchell Starc’s bullet-paced yorkers | Shadi Khan Saif

  09-12-2025 04:04
  Cricket has always been my lullaby, my shorthand for belonging. And in Starcy I have another legend to admireGrowing up in the late 1990s, I insisted my younger nephews and nieces call me Imran Khan instead of my real name – our own playful twist on traditional respect rituals. A few years later, I upgraded to Wasim Akram (naturally) and they obligingly followed. They’re all grown now, but they still call me “Mama Khan” or “Wasin Akral”- the clumsy childhood p
  
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• Injured Australian fast bowler Josh Hazlewood ruled out of rest of Ashes series

  09-12-2025 02:22
  Paceman has struggled with hamstring and achilles issues‘It’s really flat for him,’ says Australia coach Andrew McDonaldAustralian fast-bowler Josh Hazlewood has been ruled out of the remainder of the Ashes series amid hamstring and achilles tendon injuries.Injuries have thwarted the right-arm quick in recent years and had forced him to watch from afar as Australia took a 2-0 series lead at the Gabba last week. Continue reading...
  
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