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• Old enemies ready for battle but Ashes series is much too close to call | Vic Marks

  31-07-2019 21:03
  England’s World Cup triumph has meant a shorter, lower-key buildup to a series against Australia that promises melodramaThis is the summer that keeps on giving. It is debatable whether fans are ready for another gut-wrenching, umbrella-handle-chewing sequence of cricket matches, let alone the protagonists in the middle, who have rollercoasted as far as the final and semi-final of a World Cup, which came to its sensational climax little more than a fortnight ago. But the Ashes are here afte
  
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• Stokes has left a vacuum – is McCullum really the coach to mould a young England team? | Andy Bull

  03-07-2026 09:00
  The New Zealander was the right man to take on the job of persuading a group of jaded senior players to play brilliant cricket, but may not suit a rebuildWait, what? Four days on, and nothing about the weekend that’s just gone seems to make much sense. It was England’s seventh defeat in nine Tests, and somehow, at the end of it, they’ve lost the last man anyone really wanted to go. Ben Stokes, his own man all the way to the end, has apparently decided he would rather spend his
  
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• Sports quiz of the week: World Cup, Ben Stokes, Wimbledon and LeBron James

  03-07-2026 09:00
  Have you followed the big stories in football, cricket, tennis, rugby union, basketball, cycling and Formula One? Continue reading...
  
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• England book final date with Australia as Sciver-Brunt and Knight sink South Africa

  02-07-2026 23:13
  England beat South Africa by 40 runsWomen’s T20 World Cup hosts through to Lord’s finalEngland launched themselves into the T20 World Cup final after defeating South Africa by 40 runs at the Oval on Thursday evening.Emotions ran high, especially after England were left reeling at 23 for three having been put in to bat. But with a crowd of 21,000 roaring them on, the World Cup hosts finished up jubilant as a record partnership of 133 from 90 balls between Nat Sciver-Brunt and Heather
  
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• England v South Africa: Women’s T20 Cricket World Cup semi-final – as it happened

  02-07-2026 23:12
  A Nat Sciver-Brunt inspired England charge into the final at Lord’s after thrashing South Africa by 40 runsOh dear, Derksen only has to shuffle a couple of pigeon steps sideways to collect a slap straight to cover point off Ishmail’s first ball.1st over: England 3-0 (Wyatt-Hodge 1, Amy Jones 2) Marizanne Kapp has grabbed a wicket with her first ball twice already in this tournament – but not this time as the ball passes safely outside Amy Jones’ off stump. Jones picks up
  
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• Sciver-Brunt steps up to fire England past South Africa into Women’s T20 World Cup final – live

  02-07-2026 22:45
  Updates from the Oval; play starts at 6.30pm BST
  Mail Tanya | Scoreboard | Australia cruise into finalOh dear, Derksen only has to shuffle a couple of pigeon steps sideways to collect a slap straight to cover point off Ishmail’s first ball.1st over: England 3-0 (Wyatt-Hodge 1, Amy Jones 2) Marizanne Kapp has grabbed a wicket with her first ball twice already in this tournament – but not this time as the ball passes safely outside Amy Jones’ off stump. Jones picks up a single b
  
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• England v South Africa: Women’s T20 Cricket World Cup semi-final – live

  02-07-2026 19:36
  Updates from the Oval; play starts at 6.30pm BST
  Mail Tanya | Australia cruise into final | Read The Spin1st over: England 3-0 (Wyatt-Hodge 1, Amy Jones 2) Marizanne Kapp has grabbed a wicket with her first ball twice already in this tournament – but not this time as the ball passes safely outside Amy Jones’ off stump. Jones picks up a single bringing run-machine Wyatt-Hodge to the crease. But there are no gimmies and she wafts and misses twice in a row going for the cut.An early em
  
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• Bazball ends with a whimper to expose emptiness of English men’s cricket | Jonathan Liew

  02-07-2026 09:00
  Trent Bridge was not just the end of Ben Stokes’ international career, it was further confirmation that the Bazball project stood for nothingBy the very end, Trent Bridge was practically empty. This felt bleakly appropriate. If the age of Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum lived by re-engaging a sceptical public, winning big series, doing the unprecedented and elevating Test cricket above its three-an-over purgatory, then this was exactly how it had to die: the first England team in history t
  
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• England v India: first men’s T20 international abandoned due to rain – as it happened

  01-07-2026 21:24
  India made 189-7 with Shreyas Iyer and Abhishek Sharma top-scoring but rain prevented any England reply at Durham1st over: India 5-0 (Samson 1, Sharma 4) India’s opening pair are the two Ss: right handed Samson, left handed Sharma (not that one). The left-armed Luke Wood has a little shake of his wrist at the Finchdale end while Samson waits for something in his eye line to be readjusted. Grabs a single from his third ball and Sharma unfurls a pitch perfect lofted drive for four.The floodl
  
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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’s Nat Sciver-Brunt returns for Women’s T20 World Cup semi-final

  01-07-2026 16:52
  Captain returns to face South Africa at the Oval‘Everything has gone to plan,’ she saysNat Sciver-Brunt will return to ­captain England in their T20 World Cup semi-final against South Africa at the Oval after being “put through recovery paces”.The 33-year-old missed the last three matches of the group stage after retiring hurt against Ireland with a recurrence of the calf injury she ­sustained in April. 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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• The Spin | 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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• 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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• Matthews criticises ‘unfair’ funding after Australia crush West Indies to race into final

  30-06-2026 19:25
  Semi-final: Australia, 127-2, bt West Indies, 125-7, by 8 wkts‘Our girls have to fight a lot to even be competing,’ says captainThe West Indies captain, Hayley Matthews, criticised the “unfair” distribution of funding in global cricket after her team were beaten resoundingly by Australia in the T20 World Cup semi-finals.Australia chased down their 126‑run target with eight wickets and seven overs to spare, after a 63-run partnership off 36 balls between Beth Mooney
  
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• Australia race into T20 World Cup final after West Indies rocked by Dottin’s collapse

  30-06-2026 19:25
  Semi-final: Australia, 127-2, bt West Indies, 125-7, by 8 wktsWest Indies limp out after struggling with illnessThe West Indies captain, Hayley Matthews, criticised the “unfair” distribution of funding in global cricket after her team were resoundingly beaten by Australia in the T20 World Cup semi-finals.Australia chased down their 126-run target with eight wickets and seven overs to spare, after a 63-run partnership off 36 balls between Beth Mooney and Ash Gardner allowed Australia
  
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• Australia breeze past West Indies in Women’s T20 World Cup semi-final – live

  30-06-2026 19:00
  Australia will face England or South Africa in final
  Match preview | Email Cameron with your thoughtsAustralia: Beth Mooney (wk), Georgia Voll, Phoebe Litchfield, Ellyse Perry, Ash Gardner, Georgia Wareham, Annabel Sutherland, Nicola Carey, Sophie Molineux (c), Lucy Hamilton, Kim GarthUnchanged from the Aussies. Other option would have been to bring the legspinner Alana King back in, but they’ve stuck with Phoebe Litchfield who came back in in the previous match. Continue reading...
  
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• Australia breeze past West Indies in Women’s T20 World Cup semi-final – as it happened

  30-06-2026 19:00
  The six-time winners raced to victory at the Oval thanks to Beth Mooney’s half-centuryAustralia: Beth Mooney (wk), Georgia Voll, Phoebe Litchfield, Ellyse Perry, Ash Gardner, Georgia Wareham, Annabel Sutherland, Nicola Carey, Sophie Molineux (c), Lucy Hamilton, Kim GarthUnchanged from the Aussies. Other option would have been to bring the legspinner Alana King back in, but they’ve stuck with Phoebe Litchfield who came back in in the previous match. Continue reading...
  
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• Harry Brook says it ‘would be a privilege’ to succeed Stokes as England Test captain

  30-06-2026 18:49
  ‘If I got offered the job, I’d be happy to take it’England play India in first T20 on WednesdayHarry Brook has declared himself ready to take on England’s vacant Test captaincy following the retirement of Ben Stokes, saying it would be “a great honour” to be given the role and is open to being the country’s first leader to unite the blazers across all formats since Andrew Strauss did so briefly in 2009.“It would be a privilege to do it, to captain
  
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• Australia v West Indies: Women’s T20 World Cup semi-final – live

  30-06-2026 16:24
  Updates from the Oval, 2.30pm BST/11.30pm AEST
  Match preview | Email Cameron with your thoughtsAustralia: Beth Mooney (wk), Georgia Voll, Phoebe Litchfield, Ellyse Perry, Ash Gardner, Georgia Wareham, Annabel Sutherland, Nicola Carey, Sophie Molineux (c), Lucy Hamilton, Kim GarthUnchanged from the Aussies. Other option would have been to bring the legspinner Alana King back in, but they’ve stuck with Phoebe Litchfield who came back in in the previous match. Continue reading...
  
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• England 1-2 New Zealand: player ratings for the three-Test series

  30-06-2026 15:03
  Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips and Nathan Smith stood out for the visitors as they came from behind to win the seriesBy the 99.94 Cricket BlogBen Stokes: 57 runs at 14.3; seven wickets at 21.9
  He retired when he was England’s best bowler, best captain and a century away from being worth his place as a batter alone. But, as he acknowledged himself, when the air goes out of the balloon it deflates very quickly – as anyone who has ever retired from any job will tell you. Continue readin
  
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• Ben Stokes in numbers: from specialist superhero to single-minded Test conductor

  30-06-2026 09:00
  Figures spell out the highs and lows of a force of personality who could swing games in his team’s favourHe swept Nathan Smith for six on an acid-trip of an afternoon, his last on the field as a Test cricketer. He nearly shredded Will O’Rourke’s fingers with a straight drive and swung his way to 30 as an agent of chaos. But was it ever going to last much longer?In his finest moments, Ben Stokes would grind before the burst, scoring two off his first 66 balls at Headingley in 20
  
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• McCullum & Key should go in 'complete clearout' - Vaughan

  29-06-2026 22:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former captain Michael Vaughan says England coach Brendon McCullum and Rob Key should resign as part of a "complete clear-out" following the retirement of Ben Stokes.
  
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• Ben Stokes backs Brook ‘100%’ to succeed him as McCullum restates England commitment

  29-06-2026 20:06
  Stokes on Brook: ‘There’s a reason he was vice-captain’Head coach says he will honour contract to end of 2027Brendon McCullum said that “the project isn’t finished yet” as he pledged to stay on as England head coach despite the shock retirement of Ben Stokes, his captain and right‑hand man over four years in charge of the Test team.After England lost against New Zealand on Monday in Stokes’s final game as an international cricketer, McCullum said h
  
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• ‘We have nothing to lose’: West Indies to channel underdog spirit against Australia

  29-06-2026 19:34
  Captain Hayley Matthews says pressure off in semi-finalSix-time champions Australia unbeaten in tournamentHayley Matthews says her West Indies team are leaning into their status as massive underdogs when they play Australia in the first T20 World Cup semi-final at the Oval on Tuesday.Australia surrendered their 20-over crown two years ago and the 50-over title last year, but over the past fortnight they have looked far and away the best team. They have had a clinical tournament, sweeping as
  
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• 'I'm done' - Stokes says no going back on retirement

  29-06-2026 18:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ben Stokes joins the podcast following his last international game.
  
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• Stokes created moments and the moments are no more

  29-06-2026 18:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ben Stokes was a cricketer of moments, and the moments are now no more, writes Stephan Shemilt.
  
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• How 'ambitious' new coach Wilson plans to grow Irish cricket

  29-06-2026 18:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ireland's new men's cricket head coach Gary Wilson tells BBC Sport NI about his ambitions for the job and how the team can build on the historic win over India.
  
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• What next for English cricket, the leadership and Stokes?

  29-06-2026 18:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Who is under pressure? Could Harry Brook be captain? What is Ben Stokes' future? What's next for England after their skipper's retirement?
  
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