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• England v India: first men’s T20 international – live

  01-07-2026 18:09
  Over-by-over report from the match at Chester Le StreetJoe Root stands alone after Stokes leaves the scene | Email JamesEngland: Jos Buttler (wk), Harry Brook (c), Jacob Bethell, Tom Banton, Sam Curran, Will Jacks, Liam Dawson, Adil Rashid, Luke Wood, Saqib MahmoodIndia: Sanju Samson, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan (wk), Shreyas Iyer (c) Tilak Varma, Harshit Rana, Shivan Duber, Axar Patel, Ravid Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Charkravarthy. Continue reading...
  
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• England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt returns for T20 World Cup semi-final

  01-07-2026 16:52
  33-year-old returns to face South Africa at the Oval‘I’ve been put through my recovery paces’Nat Sciver-Brunt will return to captain England in their T20 World Cup semi-final against South Africa at the Oval after being “put through my recovery paces”.The 33-year-old missed the last three matches of the group stages after retiring hurt against Ireland with a recurrence of the calf injury she sustained in April. Continue reading...
  
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• Joe Root stands alone after old mate Ben Stokes runs out of road

  01-07-2026 13:26
  Root and Stokes have been friends since they were children – now England’s leading Test scorer must go on even as Bazball comes to its endJoe Root and Ben Stokes are great mates; they’ve played with each other since they were children representing Yorkshire’s and Durham’s youth teams. Root even confessed this week in a moving dressing-room tribute that Stokes had taught him his first swearword. There’s something symbolic in that, it feels almost like Stokes ha
  
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• Australia will face first stern test in final as they stroll past rest of T20 World Cup field | Geoff Lemon

  01-07-2026 00:09
  West Indies fail to show up in semi-final allowing Australia to test attack against either England or South AfricaThe concept of Twenty20 cricket was always about lifting scoring rates, but contemporary T20 focuses obsessively on batting. Indian Premier League pars of 250, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, six-hitting records, 30-ball hundreds, the search for the 20-over double ton: the attention is as relentless as the rate at which white Kookaburras fly into crowds. Looking at the Australia women’s
  
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