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Stephan Shemilt

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3 years

If Dale Steyn had bowled as many deliveries in Test cricket as James Anderson (35,490) with his own strike-rate (42.30), Steyn would have 839 wickets.

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Admittedly it's niche, but I wonder if that Bairstow knock is the worst two-ball innings in the history of Test cricket.

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5 years

Jack Leach is re-enacting THAT single off Pat Cummins....

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3 years

England have lost 13 wickets for 66 runs across 10,000 miles in the past seven days.

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3 years

England's Covid outbreak lasted marginally longer than one of their opening partnerships.

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3 years

Joe Root has gone past 1,000 Test runs for the year. England's next highest is Dom Sibley on 344.

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5 years

Crying Steve Smiths in the Hollies....

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3 years

Joe Root has scored more runs in this series than any other England batsman has managed in all of 2021.

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@stephanshemilt

4 months

You go to work all week, want a game of cricket on a Saturday, then this...

Nikhil Uttamchandani

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4 months

Jofra Archer Playing Club Cricket Today in Barbados 😳🔥 He finished with 3-16 and 54* (20)

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6 months

Decent

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6 months

Jonny Bairstow has just gone over to the travelling fans and thrown some of his gear into the crowd. Joe Root picked out a young fan and gave him his match award. Nice stuff.

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3 years

For those keeping score, the ECB is currently without a chairman, permanent director of men's cricket and a men's head coach.

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@stephanshemilt

6 months

Good morning, Dharamsala

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1 year

Regularly mentioned that Moeen has batted everywhere from one to nine in Tests. Stokes has batted everywhere from opening (one, not two) all the way down to 11.

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3 months

England at the point of no return. Not just this World Cup, but the whole white-ball set-up.

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Proper cricket. Not that Bazball nonsense.

Club cricketer faces 137 balls for 0 in drawn match

Ian Bestwick of Darley Abbey Cricket Club batted for 45 overs without scoring a run to secure a draw for his side.

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4 years

India at the Gabba, Kyle Mayers, England in Chennai, anything that New Zealand do, teams returning to Pakistan. Strong time for Test cricket.

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8 months

The groundsman has peeled back the covers for McCullum, Key and (England Lions coach) Dinesh Karthik to take a look at the Hyderabad pitch. To my (very untrained) eye, that end is very bare.

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5 years

The 1207 runs in the SA-England series is the most for a three-match series in the history of T20 internationals.

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@stephanshemilt

3 years

Mark Wood v Paul Collingwood in the North East Premier League Division One this Saturday. Wood is returning to play for his boyhood club Ashington. The England fast bowler and assistant coach will have to take their own tea and get changed outside.

Mark Wood: England fast bowler to play amateur cricket for Ashington

England fast bowler Mark Wood will return to his boyhood club Ashington to play an amateur game on Saturday.

www.bbc.co.uk

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6 years

Shades of 05 as Joe Root runs after Hardik Pandya to shakes hands.

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@stephanshemilt

2 years

Can't think of a tournament, in any sport, that has produced as much drama as the Women's World Cup.

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2 years

England have not won without either Anderson or Broad playing since fourth Test v Windies in June 2007. Vaughan was captain and Broad yet to debut. This is England's 197th Test since then, ninth without either of Branderson, five of which have come since the Gabba last year.

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5 months

Rocky Flintoff, 16-year-old son of Andrew, has just reached 50 for Lancs 2nd XI against Durham at Old Trafford. 18-year-old Corey Flintoff is also in the Lancs team.

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At 16 years and 102 days, Rocky Flintoff is the youngest man (boy?) to make a Test century for England Under 19s. Ian Bell made a century aged 16 years and 313 days v New Zealand in 1998-99. Flintoff the 10th youngest man from anywhere to make an U19s Test ton

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3 years

Balls faced in first-class cricket by England’s top seven since the second Test v New Zealand…. Burns: 189 Sibley: 271 Crawley: 6 Root: 0 Bairstow: 0 Lawrence: 0 Buttler: 0

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2 months

According to Cricviz, Gus Atkinson's first over is the second-fastest by an England bowler on Test debut in the ball-tracking era Finn 88.73mph Atkinson 87.86 Wood 87.78 Stone 87.00 Archer 86.65 Ball 86.64 Shahzad 85.80 Jordan 85.30

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2 years

Gutted.

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2 years

Ollie Pope made his Test debut at number four despite never having batted there for Surrey. Now he could be relaunching his career at number three despite never having batted there for Surrey. Tough gig.

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1 year

Get Sophie Ecclestone in.

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2 years

Cricket ground opposite the Multan hotel, where the pitch doubles as a helipad. A different approach to taking wickets on flat tracks.

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@stephanshemilt

3 years

Jimmy Anderson presented with a special shirt to mark his England record 162nd cap.

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1 year

Soft dismissal, but Duckett takes his average as an opener to 53.58. Only four openers (min 10 matches) have a better average for England - Sutcliffe, Hutton, Hobbs, Amiss.

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4 years

Ben Foakes is the first England wicketkeeper since Alan Knott in 1968 to take three stumpings in a Test. No England keeper has ever taken four.

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3 years

Superb from Jimmy Anderson: "The minute I got out there Stuart Broad was telling me what to do - 'get a big stride in, smother the ball, don't let the bounce beat your bat'. I was like 'it's alright mate, I've played before, it's fine'."

Ashes: Ben Stokes has sights on final Test, says James Anderson

England all-rounder Ben Stokes has "still got his sights" on playing in the fifth Ashes Test despite a side strain, according to James Anderson.

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8 months

Could be something, could be nothing, but Ben Foakes currently has the keeping gloves while the rest of the England team - including Jonny Bairstow - go through a fielding drill.

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@stephanshemilt

5 years

Jonny Bairstow on Matthew Wade's arrival: "Come on, Leachy, let's have the shit-stirrer."

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5 years

Not many people know that Brian the cat was recently appointed Somerset chairman.

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1 year

Joe Root into his second over for Rajasthan, meaning he has bowled more than Ben Stokes in this year's IPL.

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2 months

This is West Indies' highest total in England since 1995, when Brian Lara and Carl Hooper made hundreds as part of 692-8 declared at The Oval.

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@stephanshemilt

5 years

Not long after England's men benefit from an umpiring mistake and the boundary rule, England's women are done by rain and no reserve day. It's the same now as it was then. The teams know the rules. NZ should have hit more boundaries, England women should have won their group.

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3 years

Cricket Australia are due to confirm the Ashes schedule tonight. It will be followed by a joint statement from the Australia bowlers disputing the schedule, saying they had no knowledge of it.

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3 years

Following the incident that saw a spectator enter the field of play at The Oval today, a man has been arrested on suspicion of assault.

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@stephanshemilt

7 months

Is Jaiswal the first man to make two separate hundreds in the same innings?

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1 year

What a competitor. What a cricketer. What a bowler.

The Ashes 2023: Stuart Broad retires as the ultimate competitor

Few England cricketers have created memorable moments, fed off the crowd or enjoyed the battle like the retiring Stuart Broad, writes Stephan Shemilt.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@stephanshemilt

6 years

Two of the five fastest ODI tons against England have been made by players from Associate nations. Kevin O'Brien in 2011 and Calum MacLeod today.

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@stephanshemilt

8 months

From @CricViz - England's 108-3 in the morning session is the best by a visiting team batting first on day 1, session 1 in India since Australia managed 131-1 at Dharamsala in March 2017. The average in the past 10 instances is 74-3.

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1 year

I'm a Foakes fan, but it's the right call to go with Bairstow. Rejigging the order not a serious option, Brook undroppable and Bairstow had to return. Hardly a novice behind the stumps and more likely to win a Test with the bat. Root, Brook, Stokes, Bairstow is a delicious 4-7.

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5 years

Few cricketers are as engaging and entertaining as Jimmy Neesham. 18 months ago he was trying to convince farmers to buy iPads. Now he's getting ready for a World Cup semi-final.

Jimmy Neesham: New Zealand all-rounder on cricket, politics and cattle

New Zealand all-rounder Jimmy Neesham reveals how he nearly quit cricket to sell electronic collars for cows, his views on politics and his career post-cricket.

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2 years

Jack Leach is the first England spinner to open the bowling in the first innings of a Test (ie England bowling first) since Jack White against Australia at Headingley in 1921.

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3 years

Stuart Broad: "Instead of looking ahead to what is coming next year, in the winter, the next Ashes series, actually can we get back to the real basics of what is ahead of us right now. How are we winning this next Test?" Pretty much nails it.

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8 months

England are training in Hyderabad. Dan Lawrence arrives later. Shoaib Bashir is still in Abu Dhabi because of a visa issue. He is being assisted by the BCCI and the Indian government.

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8 years

The pitch-invading dog at Visakhapatnam, wonderfully described by @Aggerscricket @MichaelVaughan and @AWSStats

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2 years

Does this mean I can mess with the tunes in the New Zealand dressing room?

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6 years

Liam Livingstone, on his comeback from injury, has made 214 not out playing for Cheadle in the North Staffs & South Cheshire League today.

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1 year

Possibility for mischief has peaked...

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3 months

We're about three pretty plausible results away from one of the US or Scotland reaching the semis of this World Cup.

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3 years

Paul Collingwood's Shotley Bridge defeat Mark Wood's Ashington by six wickets. Ashington 219 all out - Wood made 4 batting at three. Collingwood 26* off 23. Wood 4-0-12-0, the seventh bowler used. Imagine being one of those who can say they faced an England fast bowler.

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2 years

The pitch at the Basin Reserve, two days out from the second Test. A green tinge...

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@stephanshemilt

1 year

The England squad for the 2027 Ashes as picked on TMS. Some post-meeting dissatisfaction at our ruthlessness and the composition of the pace attack. Brydon Carse very unlucky.

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1 year

We're here to listen to Moeen Ali but Edgbaston has been evacuated (presumably some sort of drill). Press conference might be on the street at this rate...

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@stephanshemilt

8 months

Shoaib Bashir has been granted a visa. He could be in India by the weekend.

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@stephanshemilt

2 months

Surely one of the greatest first-class matches ever played? One run short of pulling off the highest first-class chase, final ball of the final day, number 11 Jamie McIlroy out to a stunning catch by wicketkeeper James Bracey, who wasn't even wearing a keeping glove. 592 all out

Test Match Special

@bbctms

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A TIE OFF THE FINAL BALL! @GlamCricket 's 592 all out is the biggest ever score in the fourth innings of a County Championship match – and the third highest in history. What a match between them and @Gloscricket . County Championship cricket at its ridiculous best 🤯

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7 months

Ben Stokes bowling in the nets in Ranchi. A few days ago he said he was "not saying yes, not saying no" to bowling in this series.

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4 years

I wouldn't want to be a bin in the Aussie dressing room right now. Justin Langer will be giving it a right kicking.

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@stephanshemilt

4 years

Obviously, the day after we're told there will be some cricket this summer, it starts raining.

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4 years

The thing I like most about this video is Rory Burns and Ollie Pope having a little cuddle.

England Cricket

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4 years

“We’re all so proud of you and pleased for you. Well done buddy” 💯🕷 Day 1 Highlights: #ENGvPAK

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Test Championship is great idea, but points system curious. 120 for each series, but points for a win depend on number of games. 60 for a win in two-Test series, 24 in five-match. England could get almost as many (60) for 1-1 draw in Sri Lanka as for winning the Ashes 3-2 (72)

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I went to a baby sensory class today (with my son, not just randomly) and all the mums were talking about cricket. I also wrote this on what it's been like to follow England on their World Cup journey....

England win World Cup: Inside team's journey to top of world

World-beaters and history-makers, England's champion players also showed their human side during a thrilling World Cup journey.

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It's possible to be neither outraged or enthused by The Hundred. The need for it is questionable and the PR at times has been shambolic, but the cricket is likely to be very good and the product pretty slick. Biggest challenge now is to fill the grounds.

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On Stokes, who prepared for one of the all-time great Test innings by eating a "knock-off Nando's and two Yorkie Raisin and Biscuit" 👇

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6 months

Top lads @Vitu_E @charlie_4444 @cameronponsonby was there too

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6 years

Since the beginning of 2016, England's away record in Test cricket is worse than all but Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.

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9 years

Alastair Cook's search for an opening partner is starting to look as cursed as the Defence against the Dark Arts job at Hogwarts.

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3 years

Haseeb Hameed and Sam Curran in the same England team for the first time. They are fifth and seventh respectively on the list of youngest men to have played Test cricket for England. On debut, Hameed was 19 years and 297 days, Curran 19 years and 363 days.

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Not a new issue for women's cricket, but given the current attention on Qatar, it is worth noting that homosexuality remains illegal in Barbados and a law criminalising same-sex acts between consenting adults in Antigua was declared unconstitutional in July.

Test Match Special

@bbctms

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The schedule has been released for England women's tour of West Indies in December. The first match takes place in just 27 days' time. #BBCCricket

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Australia delivered one of the great performances, but neither the final nor the World Cup were classics. The challenge is to breathe life into the tournament for 2027. Cricket deserves a World Cup to be enjoyed, not endured.

Cricket World Cup 2023: Challenge to breathe life into ODI format remains

The World Cup ended how it began, with a sense of emptiness in Ahmedabad, and now the challenge is to breathe life into the tournament for 2027, says Stephan Shemilt.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@stephanshemilt

3 years

Ollie Robinson and James Bracey have been presented with their England caps. Two debutants for England at Lord's.

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@stephanshemilt

2 years

I blame England's kit. How are you supposed to bat when you know you're dressed like the opening credits to a late-1980s sports highlights show.

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1 year

This is the first time in 15 years that England have bowled first in a Test and James Anderson (when playing) hasn't bowled the first over of the match.

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3 years

I'm taking my spikes to Lord's. I bowl off the wrong foot and from the back of my hand, but I can't be far from a call-up. I guarantee Virat Kohli will have seen nothing like it before.

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2 years

Exactly 1,000 days between home Test wickets for Jack Leach. The last one was on 15 September 2019.

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5 years

When Trevor Bayliss pinned Mark Wood to the floor...

Mark Wood column: What Trevor Bayliss is really like

England bowler Mark Wood says "all of the players will miss" departing coach Trevor Bayliss and his "old school methods".

www.bbc.co.uk

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6 years

What happened today...

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@stephanshemilt

3 years

Australia's declaration ensures England's run of not taking 20 wickets in away Ashes Tests extends to nine matches. Close to completing two full series.

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@stephanshemilt

3 years

Before India played a County XI on this tour, the last time Rohit Sharma played a first-class game that wasn't a Test was in November 2015. The last time Virat Kohli played a non-Test first-class match was in November 2012, nearly nine years ago.

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2 years

For those wondering, this is @AlexHartley93 dressed as a pop star from the 1990s. #bbccricket

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4 years

Jos Buttler's World Cup shirt has sold for £65,100, with the money going to the Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospital.

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5 years

How would this XI of players unavailable to South Africa get on against the current Test side? A bit light on batting, but an incredible attack.... Kuhn Amla Rossouw De Villiers Vilas Van Zyl Harmer Steyn Morkel Abbott Olivier Philander soon to join them.

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7 months

The Rajkot pitch, two days out. Touch of grass on it.

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5 years

James Pattinson revealed his affection for Grimsby Town.... So Grimsby sent Pattinson his very own mug...

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Joe Root has just switched the bails, summoning the spirit of Stuart Broad. That's where England are at right now.

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7 years

This was the queue to get into The Oval just before the first ball was bowled. #bbccricket

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1 year

Should have played the Ashes in August.

The Hundred

@thehundred

1 year

Match abandoned at Headingley 😔 Ticket terms and conditions: #TheHundred

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2 years

6am message to say flight to Christchurch is cancelled. Now a two-hour drive to Palmerston to try and squeeze on a flight from there. If there's dead air on TMS at 01:45, you'll know we haven't made it....

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8 years

England's 155-9 the second highest score by any team batting first in a World T20 final.

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6 years

"I probably didn't score enough runs, but after the winter I had, you'd expect to be backed a little bit" - Dawid Malan on getting dropped by England....

Dawid Malan: England batsman wants to return for Sri Lanka tour

Dawid Malan says he "struggled to get his head around" being dropped by England this summer, but wants to tour Sri Lanka.

www.bbc.co.uk

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3 years

The Babar-Rizwan stand of 150 is the highest ever opening partnership in a men's T20 international in England.

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2 years

Less than a month before series is due to start and still nothing from Cricket West Indies on schedule for England women's tour. Impossible for travelling fans and media to plan. Awful look for the women's game.

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