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• England thrash New Zealand by nine wickets to eliminate them from Women’s T20 Cricket World Cup – as it happened

  27-06-2026 23:17
  England sail into the semi-finals undefeated after an unbeaten 89 from Danni Wyatt-Hodge thrills record Oval crowd1st over: New Zealand 1-0 (Kerr 1, Gaze 0) Linsey Smith with the new ball. Tosses it from hand to hand, collar buttoned up to the top, white suncream smeared in a stripe across her nose and cheeks. Just a single from the over as Smith is on the money straight away.The commentators are all very interested in the “greenish tinge” on the pitch.. Manna for Lauren Bell perhap
  
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• Supersub Foulkes key to New Zealand’s day three turnaround against England

  27-06-2026 21:40
  Zak Foulkes’ three wickets helped restrict England to 354Bowler replaced Blair Tickner as concussion subZak Foulkes said that before play on Saturday New Zealand decided to attempt a new method of outfoxing England’s batters: by staying “as boring as possible”. If the process was deliberately dull, the results were electrifying. Having started their first innings on Friday by scoring 223 at 4.96 an over for the loss of just two wickets, the next day England completed it b
  
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• England v New Zealand: Women’s T20 Cricket World Cup – live

  27-06-2026 20:02
  Women’s World Cup news, 6.30pm BST start at the Oval
  Sign up for The Spin cricket newsletter | And mail Tanya1st over: New Zealand 1-0 (Kerr 1, Gaze 0) Linsey Smith with the new ball. Tosses it from hand to hand, collar buttoned up to the top, white suncream smeared in a stripe across her nose and cheeks. Just a single from the over as Smith is on the money straight away.The commentators are all very interested in the “greenish tinge” on the pitch.. Manna for Lauren Bell perha
  
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• Ravindra helps New Zealand build 204-run lead against England in decisive third Test – as it happened

  27-06-2026 20:00
  England lose eight wickets for 130 runs in Nottingham to cede control of deciding Test match to New Zealand49th over: England 228-4 (Brook 2, Smith 1) Nathan Smith started with a wicket maiden, using the crease, swinging the ball and deploying wobble seam. After dismissing Root, he has Brook in his sights, with Blundell still standing up as he did for both these superstars at the Oval. Smith beats Brook outside off with the ball that doesn’t jag back in, and Brook may well be relieved to g
  
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• Ravindra puts New Zealand in dominant position after England fail to take advantage

  27-06-2026 19:49
  Third Test D3: New Zealand 438 & 120-3; England 354England lose eight wickets for 130 runs Things can change quickly in cricket. Just as England thought a reset had occurred at Lord’s, only for a late night in Chelsea to put paid to that notion, so the nature of the pitch lurched significantly on a gripping third day at Trent Bridge.Gone was the road from which the ball repeatedly raced across the parched outfield during the first two days. In its place – influenced by a slight d
  
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• Someone’s about to switch the music off, leaving Rob Key without a chair to sit on | Andy Bull

  27-06-2026 19:23
  Future of England’s managing director looks perilous given he’s more expendable than Stokes or McCullumIn the aughts, when the internet was the place you went to watch babies bite their big brother’s finger, find out what Ashton Kutcher had for breakfast or follow the Test on your holiday with those two blokes who did the Guardian’s over-by-over, someone made a gif of Rob Key, the memory of which will be instantly familiar to anyone who saw it, even two decades later.Key
  
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• England v New Zealand: third men’s cricket Test, day three – live

  27-06-2026 14:19
  Follow the third day at Trent Bridge from 11am BST
  Second-day report | Read the Spin | Mail Tim49th over: England 228-4 (Brook 2, Smith 1) Nathan Smith started with a wicket maiden, using the crease, swinging the ball and deploying wobble seam. After dismissing Root, he has Brook in his sights, with Blundell still standing up as he did for both these superstars at the Oval. Smith beats Brook outside off with the ball that doesn’t jag back in, and Brook may well be relieved to get down the
  
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• ‘Strikeout’: Cricket World Cup winner Plunkett makes instant impact in baseball

  27-06-2026 12:52
  Veteran of 2019 champions in first game for Oakland side‘The hitter ​didn’t know what ‌was coming’The former England cricketer Liam Plunkett swapped his cricket colours for a ⁠baseball glove, playing his first game for the independent American club Oakland Ballers – and ⁠even claiming a ⁠strikeout.The 41-year-old was part of England’s 2019 World Cup-winning side — his final international appearance — taking three ⁠wicke
  
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• Saracens’ George slams Auvaa’s ‘unacceptable behaviour’ in nightclub incident with England cricketers

  27-06-2026 11:30
  England veteran says Samoan ‘immature – but a good kid’Academy player ‘a rabbit in the headlights in London’Jamie George has criticised his Saracens teammate Totoa Auvaa’s “unacceptable” behaviour during the nightclub incident that led to the cricketers Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson being dropped by England but insisted he was “a good kid”.The England international and former captain described the 21-year-old Samoan back-row as “a r
  
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• Saracens’ George slams Auvaa’s ‘unacceptable behaviour’ after nightclub incident

  27-06-2026 11:30
  England veteran says Samoan ‘immature – but a good kid’Academy player ‘a rabbit in the headlights in London’Jamie George has criticised his Saracens teammate Totoa Auvaa’s “unacceptable” behaviour during the nightclub incident that led to the cricketers Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson being dropped by England but insisted he was “a good kid”.The England international and former captain described the 21-year-old Samoan back-row as “a r
  
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• England v New Zealand: third men’s Test, day three – live

  27-06-2026 11:28
  Follow the third day at Trent Bridge from 11am BST
  Second-day report | Read the Spin | Mail TimMorning everyone and welcome to the third act of a riveting drama. England won the first Test, New Zealand won the second. New Zealand won the first day of this Test, England won the second. Who’s going to win the third? Who knows!If the game is to have a winner, according to CricViz, it’s now twice as likely to be England (who apparently have a 45pc chance) as New Zealand (20pc). Are they
  
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