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• England v Bangladesh: Cricket World Cup 2019 – live!

  08-06-2019 11:33
  Cricket World Cup updates from the 12th matchTable: the latest standings | Listen to The Spin podcastAnd feel free to email Rob with your thoughts 10.33am BST 1st over: England 1-0 (Roy 1, Bairstow 0) Shakib’s first over is played respectfully by Roy and Bairstow, with just a single down the ground for Roy. Shakib is not a big spinner of the ball, so everything was angled in to the right-handers. “Rob,” says Brian Withington. “All this talk of panic has me thinking of Dou
  
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• England v New Zealand: Ben Stokes’ retirement announced during day four – live

  28-06-2026 17:23
  Updates from Trent Bridge, play starts 11am BST
  Day three report | Read the Spin | Mail Tanya39th over: New Zealand 125-3 (Ravindra 62, Mitchell 29) Archer from the Stuart Broad End, he’s up to the mid to high eighties on the speed gun and gets a nasty ball to lift and smash Mitchell on the hand. The batter wrings it out and briefly resembles Ali G as he does so. Mitchell drops into the leg side and gets off strike. Ravindra clips off his hip to make it two singles off the over.How’
  
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• England Test captain Ben Stokes announces international retirement

  28-06-2026 16:37
  Stokes takes wicket in third Test just after news breaksCaptain informed teammates before Sunday’s play beganBen Stokes has announced his retirement as captain of England’s Test team, and from all international cricket, effective as of the end of the third Test against New Zealand at Trent Bridge.The announcement was made with England in the field, and as Stokes laboured through a trademark extended bowling spell in an effort to swing the game his team’s way. Ever the man for t
  
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• England v New Zealand: third men’s cricket Test, day four – live

  28-06-2026 16:28
  
  Updates from Trent Bridge, play starts 11am BST
  Day three report | Read the Spin | Mail Tanya39th over: New Zealand 125-3 (Ravindra 62, Mitchell 29) Archer from the Stuart Broad End, he’s up to the mid to high eighties on the speed gun and gets a nasty ball to lift and smash Mitchell on the hand. The batter wrings it out and briefly resembles Ali G as he does so. Mitchell drops into the leg side and gets off strike. Ravindra clips off his hip to make it two singles off the over.How’
  
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• Australia v India: Women’s T20 World Cup – live

  28-06-2026 16:28
  Updates from the teams’ final Group A game at Lord’sStart time in London is 2.30pm BST/11.30pm AESTChanges for both sides.Just the one for India as Kranti Gaud come back for Nandani Sharma. Continue reading...
  
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• England’s Wyatt-Hodge blasts New Zealand out of Women’s T20 World Cup

  27-06-2026 23:46
  Group B: England, 164-1, bt New Zealand, 163-6, by nine wktsOpener scores unbeaten 89 to oust defending championsNew Zealand’s World Cup title defence came to a soggy end at the Oval on Saturday night, as England danced home by nine wickets in a one-sided hammering thanks to a 128-run partnership between Danni Wyatt-Hodge and Sophia Dunkley. The crowd of 21,018 was a record for a Women’s T20 World Cup group-stage match.England have topped Group B and will more than likely face either
  
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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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• Sri Lanka beat Scotland to keep semi-final hopes alive

  26-06-2026 23:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sri Lanka keep their slim hopes of reaching a first Women's T20 World Cup semi-final alive with a nail-biting three-wicket win over Scotland at Old Trafford.
  
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• India-born Moondra realises dream in famous Ireland win

  26-06-2026 22:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  India-born bowler Jai Moondra says helping Ireland claim a historic T20 win over the world champions is a "dream come true".
  
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• How fitter Duckett got back to his best

  26-06-2026 21:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ben Duckett has lost "five or six" kilograms since the Ashes - this is how he reaped the rewards with a century for England in the third Test against New Zealand.
  
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• England seeing benefits of fitness drive - Capsey

  26-06-2026 21:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England are starting to see the benefits of their improvement in fitness and fielding at the T20 World Cup, having not lived up to standards previously, says all-rounder Alice Capsey.
  
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• Ben Duckett says shedding pounds has helped him pile on runs for England

  26-06-2026 21:21
  Opening batter credits fitness regime for form in heatDuckett stepped away from nets for four-week bootcampAfter scoring his first Test century for more than a year Ben Duckett revealed that shedding some weight has helped him to pile on the runs, with a post-winter fitness regime catapulting him into the summer in form that was glimpsed in the first two games of the series and has been obvious in the third.“It’s an area of my career where I haven’t necessarily helped myself or
  
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• Warwickshire stun Surrey as Hampshire move top

  26-06-2026 21:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Warwickshire provide arguably the shock of this season's Women's T20 Blast as they move off bottom spot by beating high-flying Surrey.
  
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• Stokes and Duckett star as England fight back against New Zealand

  26-06-2026 20:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ben Stokes takes three early wickets before Ben Duckett hits 113 with the bat as England fight back on day two of the third Test against New Zealand at Trent Bridge.
  
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• Nicholls’ drop defines the day as Duckett cashes in on luck to deliver for England | Andy Bull

  26-06-2026 20:30
  On an unforgiving Trent Bridge pitch where the runs flow like melted butter, every mistake in the field is measured in centuriesThe stands around Trent Bridge were looking pretty thin by the time England’s opening batters made it out to the middle. Not that there were any spare tickets going, the first three days of the game are sold out, only plenty of the people who had bought them had beaten a retreat to the shady parts round the back of the ground. It was a pitiless day for cricket, an
  
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• Stokes sparks England recovery as Duckett finds his groove against New Zealand

  26-06-2026 19:58
  Third Test day two: New Zealand 438; England 223-2Duckett out for 113 off 99 balls as hosts hit backBefore the start of this deciding third Test against New Zealand, Brendon McCullum was overheard saying he was set to learn a fair bit about his England team.After a Lord’s surface that featured seamers fishing with dynamite and then the semi-skimmed XI chosen for the Oval, no one quite knew whether a flat pitch such as Trent Bridge’s would rekindle the aggressive batting of the previo
  
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• England v New Zealand: third men’s cricket Test, day two – as it happened

  26-06-2026 19:56
  England battled back to trail by 215 runs at Trent Bridge, with Ben Duckett making a century after Ben Stokes took three wickets in a superb spell87th over: New Zealand 370-4 (Mitchell 8, O’Rourke 0) Archer’s looking sharp, starting the over with an 87mph inswinger. Though he follows that up with a loose, wide one. The England quick sends down a couple of bumpers and has his first maiden of the innings.86th over: New Zealand 370-4 (Mitchell 8, O’Rourke 0) It’s Josh Tongue
  
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• Duckett & Stokes haul England back into third Test

  26-06-2026 19:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ben Duckett’s scintillating century builds on an inspirational spell from Ben Stokes to haul England back into the decisive third Test against New Zealand at Trent Bridge.
  
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• Ireland rattle through India to claim first ever win over world T20 champions

  26-06-2026 19:35
  Ireland 182-9; India 148; Ireland win by 34 runsThree wickets on debut from Ireland’s Matt HollardIreland defeated India for the first time in men’s international cricket with an unexpected 34-run victory over the world T20 champions at Stormont.Ireland recovered from 51 for four to post 182 for nine, before an attack inspired by debutants Matt Hollard and Jai Moondra left India all out for 148 with seven balls remaining. This was the tourists’ first defeat since winning a seco
  
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• 'It will mean so much to him' - Duckett delights as England fight back

  26-06-2026 19:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ben Duckett makes a "very entertaining" 113 from 99 balls on his home ground of Trent Bridge for his seventh Test century, giving England the perfect start to their first innings, responding to New Zealand's 438 on day two of the series-deciding third Test against New Zealand.
  
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