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• Lawrence hits 64-ball ton as Surrey draw with Hants

  10-06-2026 18:58 via bbc.com
  
  Hampshire dig deep to stave off the threat of defeat after Surrey's Dan Lawrence smashes another century in their County Championship match.
  
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• England ready to rock Women’s T20 World Cup, but far from home and dry

  11-06-2026 15:45
  In theory the hosts have an easy route to the last four, but even a weakened Australia team are still, well, AustraliaJust after midday last Sunday the England captain, Nat Sciver-Brunt, smashed the India captain, Harmanpreet Kaur, for six off Waterloo Bridge, straight into the Thames. The scratch-match, which involved all 12 competing captains, was part of a chaotic, eye-catching event to launch the Women’s T20 World Cup. Also involved were a red London bus, the International Cricket Coun
  
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• England’s cricketers could face alcohol ban with Stokes captaincy still in doubt

  11-06-2026 15:00
  Rob Key says ECB need time to consider futureECB chiefs were in ‘shock’ after nightclub incidentThe England and Wales Cricket Board is considering imposing a complete ban on alcohol while players are on international duty as they ponder the best response to the incident at a Chelsea nightclub that led to Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson being dropped for next week’s second Test against New Zealand, and to the stream of embarrassing stories over the past eight months.Rob Key, the ECB
  
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• Ruthless Australia set sights on T20 World Cup after clinical warmup win over West Indies

  11-06-2026 01:36
  World No 1 easily chase 131 to win by six wicketsGeorgia Voll hits 77no off 48 with 10 fours and two sixesSophie Molineux’s Australian team, without a world title to their name, look determined to put matters right at the Women’s T20 World Cup, if the ruthless manner of their warm-up wins is anything to go by.After crushing tournament hosts England on Monday, world No 1 Australian hammered West Indies by six wickets in Cardiff for their last warmup match on Wednesday (Thursday AEST)
  
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• 'In emergency, break glass' - England seek stability in Root

  10-06-2026 19:20 via bbc.com
  
  BBC cricket correspondent Stephan Shemilt explains why England turned to Joe Root to replace Ben Stokes as interim Test captain.
  
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• Stokes out of England squad, Root named captain

  10-06-2026 18:44 via bbc.com
  
  Ben Stokes will miss England’s second Test against New Zealand at The Oval following an incident in a London nightclub, with Joe Root stepping up as interim captain.
  
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• Dan Lawrence collects records but Hampshire hold firm to deny Surrey – live

  10-06-2026 18:27
  Updates from the final day’s play at the Oval
  Day three report | Mail Tanya or comment BTLWith dancing feet, Lawrence pushes into the offside to reach another fifty – off just 35 balls. He’s averaging an incredible 80.88 at the moment, with four hundreds. And every time he has reached fifty this season, he’s gone on to three figures. Hampshire might just have to grin and bear it.Sibley and Lawrence are very eager between the wickets now – the 50 partnership comes u
  
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• Dan Lawrence collects records but Hampshire hold firm to deny Surrey – as it happened

  10-06-2026 18:27
  England batter hit his second century of the match but Surrey could not make their dominance count on the final dayWith dancing feet, Lawrence pushes into the offside to reach another fifty – off just 35 balls. He’s averaging an incredible 80.88 at the moment, with four hundreds. And every time he has reached fifty this season, he’s gone on to three figures. Hampshire might just have to grin and bear it.Sibley and Lawrence are very eager between the wickets now – the 50 p
  
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• England boosted by five-run win over India in final T20 World Cup warm-up

  10-06-2026 17:06
  Sciver-Brunt back to ‘normal self’ with half-centuryJones: ‘I feel everything has been ticked off’England’s World Cup preparations concluded with a five-run win in their final warm-up against India at Cardiff, in what will be a vital confidence-booster ahead of their tournament opener against Sri Lanka on Friday evening.England hit 171 for six, including a half-century from Nat Sciver-Brunt - the most time the England captain has spent at the crease since she suffer
  
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• Stokes out of second Test with New Zealand over nightclub incident as Root made captain

  10-06-2026 16:11
  Stokes in talks with agent and advisers over his futureAtkinson also left out with Barker and Archer set to playJoe Root will captain England in next week’s second Test against New Zealand after Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson were left out of the squad for breaking the team curfew as they celebrated victory in the first game of the series on Sunday night.While the England & Wales Cricket Board continue their investigation into that incident Stokes, the team’s full-time captain, is b
  
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• Stokes left out of England’s second Test against New Zealand after nightclub incident

  10-06-2026 16:11
  Stokes weighing up future following late-night incidentAtkinson also left out with Root to captain team Joe Root will captain England in next week’s second Test against New Zealand after Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson were left out of the squad for breaking the team curfew as they celebrated victory in the first game of the series on Sunday night.Stokes, the team’s full-time captain, is being given some time to consider his future after he contributed to the resurfacing of the debate ab
  
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• Sciver-Brunt finds form as England overcome India

  10-06-2026 15:59 via bbc.com
  
  Nat Sciver-Brunt spends valuable time in the middle as England beat India in their final warm-up match before the Women's T20 World Cup starts on Friday.
  
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• Stokes should not be sacked as captain - Vaughan

  10-06-2026 14:37 via bbc.com
  
  Ben Stokes’ involvement in an incident in a London nightclub should not cost him his job as England Test captain, according to Michael Vaughan.
  
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• Bransgrove steps down as Hampshire chair after 26 years

  10-06-2026 14:30 via bbc.com
  
  Hampshire chairman Rod Bransgrove steps down from the role after 26 years at the helm.
  
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• Surrey v Hampshire, day four: county cricket news and updates – live

  10-06-2026 14:06
  Updates from the final day’s play at the Oval
  Day three report | Mail Tanya or comment BTLWith dancing feet, Lawrence pushes into the offside to reach another fifty – off just 35 balls. He’s averaging an incredible 80.88 at the moment, with four hundreds. And every time he has reached fifty this season, he’s gone on to three figures. Hampshire might just have to grin and bear it.Sibley and Lawrence are very eager between the wickets now – the 50 partnership comes u
  
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• A shock group-stage exit? T20 World Cup team guide

  10-06-2026 13:58 via bbc.com
  
  Predictions, players to watch and who will win? BBC Test Match Special's Alex Hartley shares her team-by-team guide to the Women's T20 World Cup.
  
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• Former Warwickshire wicketkeeper Piper dies aged 56

  10-06-2026 13:52 via bbc.com
  
  Former Warwickshire wicketkeeper Keith Piper dies at the age of 56 after playing nearly 500 games for the Bears in his 16-year career at Edgbaston.
  
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• Warwickshire sign India spinner Suthar

  10-06-2026 12:15 via bbc.com
  
  Warwickshire sign India off-spinner Manav Suthar for their next two County Championship games.
  
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• The Spin | Women’s T20 World Cup: team-by-team guide to the tournament

  10-06-2026 11:57
  A run-through of the teams, key players and talking points ahead of the biggest Women’s T20 World Cup to date – and perhaps the most open Continue reading...
  
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• Tough IPL time helping Livingstone have a Blast

  10-06-2026 11:41 via bbc.com
  
  In-form Lancashire batter Liam Livingstone feels he is benefitting from his unhappy time sat on the bench in the Indian Premier League.
  
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• When Blue Peter highlighted 'rising star' Charlotte Edwards

  10-06-2026 10:53 via bbc.com
  
  Before leading England into the T20 World Cup as head coach this summer, BBC Sport looks back at when Charlotte Edwards appeared on Blue Peter as a 17-year-old, heading into her first World Cup in India in 1997.
  
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• Wins for Lancs, Essex & Northants in T20 Blast

  10-06-2026 00:27 via bbc.com
  
  Lancashire Lightning, Essex and Northants Steelbacks all pick up wins in the T20 Blast.
  
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• Australia crash to first ODI loss against Bangladesh for 21 years

  09-06-2026 21:23
  Tourists go down by 86 runs on DLS method in DhakaShoddy fielding and poor bowling marked defeatAustralia have crashed to their first ODI loss against Bangladesh in 21 years, crushed by 86 runs on the Duckworth-Lewis system in the opening match of their three-game series.Bangladesh, hosting Australia in a men’s ODI for the first time since 2011, posted a formidable 8-284 after being sent in at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka on Tuesday, before restricting the tourists t
  
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• County cricket: Hampshire avoid having to follow on against Surrey on day three – as it happened

  09-06-2026 20:14
  The visitors reduced Surrey to 57 for two by the end of play at the Oval and they trail by 145 runsLehmann and Prest in the middle; Topley, leaping up and down at the top of his mark, to finish his over. And the sun is out.Just realised I’ve been watching the covers on day two on the stream. No wonder it all looked so familiar. Play is actually about to start at The Oval! Continue reading...
  
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• Ben Stokes set to be left out of England squad for second New Zealand Test

  09-06-2026 19:47
  England captain considering his long-term futureECB continuing investigation into nightclub incidentBen Stokes is highly unlikely to be included in England’s squad for the second Test against New Zealand after the 35-year-old asked for space and time to consider his long-term future amid the fallout from a nightclub incident in the early hours of Monday morning.The England and Wales Cricket Board is determined to bring the latest furore surrounding the culture of the men’s Test team
  
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• England need to take accountability after Stokes & Atkinson incident - Agnew

  09-06-2026 18:27 via bbc.com
  
  BBC Sport chief cricket commentator Jonathan Agnew says Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson's drinking incident in a London nightclub is "not on" and the team has to be accountability over England's drinking culture.
  
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• Stokes shouldn’t lose his job for breaking curfew when ECB failings run so much deeper | Andy Bull

  09-06-2026 18:20
  Midnight bedtime was entirely a public relations exercise to reconnect with fans – the same fans the ECB invites to one long piss-up at Lord’sThe laws of cricket run to more than 200 pages. The International Cricket Council’s Test playing regulations fill another 125, the anti-doping code packs another 66, the code of conduct is 44 more, illegal bowling actions 37, kit and equipment 36. You’d be hard pressed to find one single rule anywhere among them as silly as the one
  
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• Bangladesh beat Australia in ODI for first time in 21 years

  09-06-2026 17:47 via bbc.com
  
  Australia suffer only their second one-day international defeat by Bangladesh - and first for 21 years - in their series opener in Mirpur.
  
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• What do you know about women's events in England?

  09-06-2026 16:35 via bbc.com
  
  How much do you know about major women's sporting events held in England?
  
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• From hating cricket to world number one - the rise of England's Smith

  09-06-2026 16:06 via bbc.com
  
  Linsey Smith admits to "hating" the first part of her international career but has risen to her current position of the number one T20 bowler in the world since.
  
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