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• David hits rapid 62 as Hurricanes beat Strikers

  05-01-2025 13:58 via bbc.com
  
  Australia’s Tim David hits a rapid 62 not out to give Hobart Hurricanes a five-wicket win over Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash League.
  
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• Archie Vaughan, son of Ashes winner Michael, named England U-19 captain

  08-01-2025 13:03
  
  Vaughan senior led England in 51 TestsArchie will lead on tour of South AfricaArchie Vaughan is following in the footsteps of his father, Michael, after being named as England Under-19 captain. Vaughan senior led his country in 51 Tests, including the Ashes triumph of 2005, but first captain his country at under-19 level in 1993-94. Archie, who broke into the Somerset side as an all-rounder last season, has now been handed the same honour for the tour of South Africa.His side will take on the Pr
  
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• Peter Hain urges South Africa to protest Afghanistan game at Champions Trophy

  08-01-2025 12:13
  
  Anti-apartheid campaigner plea to governing bodyWomen’s cricket team disbanded under Taliban ruleThe veteran anti-apartheid campaigner Peter Hain has called on Cricket South Africa to challenge the ban on women’s and girl’s cricket in Afghanistan. In a letter seen by the Guardian, Lord Hain urges the Cricket South Africa’s chief executive, Pholetsi Moseki, to take up the issue with the International Cricket Council before South Africa’s Champions Trophy match agains
  
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• The Spin | ‘Deep, minging, unpleasant’: cricket’s flooding problem is getting worse

  08-01-2025 11:00
  
  ECB has been in touch with 27 clubs so far this storm season as the climate crisis bites. What can game do to stay afloat?The water started flowing into the New Road practice area at about 4pm on Monday afternoon, and just kept on rolling. It flooded the entire ground and half the car park, as well as the nearby racecourse, the rowing club and the public footpath – which is now a popular hang-out space for swans. The head groundsman, Stephen Manfield, a man of a remarkably perky dispositio
  
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• Women’s Ashes rivals united in appeal for three Tests in multi-format series

  08-01-2025 06:26
  Gardner and Beaumont call for series to be expandedAustralia and England begin with ODI on 12 JanuaryAustralia all-rounder Ash Gardner and England opener Tammy Beaumont have put their rivalry to one side to call for the Women’s Ashes to be expanded with the addition of more Test matches.The Women’s Ashes has been played across three T20s, three ODIs and a single Test since the multi-format series was introduced in 2013. The 2025 series will again include seven matches but only one Te
  
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• Is two-tier Test system 'greedy' or will it help cricket survive?

  07-01-2025 14:38 via bbc.com
  
  After a report by the Melbourne Age suggests that plans for a two-tier World Test Championship would be discussed later this month, BBC Sport looks at the reaction so far.
  
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• West Indies great Clive Lloyd ‘disturbed’ by two-tier plan for Test cricket

  07-01-2025 11:50
  
  Talks ongoing on dividing sport into two divisionsLloyd: ‘I think it will be terrible for some countries’The West Indies great Clive Lloyd is “disturbed” by the idea of a two-tier structure for Test cricket and believes efforts should instead be focused on ensuring struggling teams play more often against the top sides.According to a report in the Melbourne Age, India, Australia and England are in talks to divide Test cricket into two divisions to allow cricket’s &l
  
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• Dignity and humanity of Afghan women must be worth more than game of cricket | Jonathan Liew

  07-01-2025 11:27
  
  The Taliban uses the success of its men’s team as propaganda – cricket’s powerbrokers should pursue a collective boycott“There’s all types of lines you can draw. We’ve drawn a line.” So explained Mike Baird, the chair of Cricket Australia, last month in explaining the governing body’s stance on playing against Afghanistan, the country that has just banned women from looking out of windows.According to a new decree from the Taliban government, new b
  
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• Renegades beat Scorchers by four wickets - BBL scorecard

  07-01-2025 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Latest scorecard from the Big Bash League match between Perth Scorchers and Melbourne Renegades at Perth Stadium.
  
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• ECB responds to calls for Afghanistan fixture boycott

  06-01-2025 23:44 via bbc.com
  
  The England and Wales Cricket Board calls for a unified response to action against Afghanistan amid calls for the England men's team to boycott next month's Champions Trophy match against the country.
  
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• Quad series 'really exciting' for England

  06-01-2025 20:28 via bbc.com
  
  England Physically Disabled team player Anthony Clapham says he can not wait for the quad series against India, Pakistan and hosts Sri Lanka.
  
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• ECB urged to boycott Afghanistan game in Champions Trophy by UK politicians

  06-01-2025 19:55
  
  More than 160 sign letter condemning ‘sex apartheid’Women’s cricket team disbanded under Taliban ruleThe England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has been urged to boycott next month’s Champions Trophy match against Afghanistan by a group of more than 160 politicians, including Nigel Farage, Jeremy Corbyn and Lord Kinnock.The England men’s ODI side are due to face Afghanistan in Lahore on 26 February but there are calls from Westminster for the ECB to refuse the fixtur
  
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• South Africa win Pakistan series to top Test table

  06-01-2025 17:35 via bbc.com
  
  South Africa finally break Pakistan's resistance on the fourth day of the second Test to complete a 2-0 series win and finish top of the World Test Championship table.
  
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• Kohli, youngsters & Bumrah - talking points from Australia's win over India

  06-01-2025 15:07 via bbc.com
  
  BBC Sport and data analysts CricViz look at five talking points from the Australia and India series and what England can learn about their next two opponents.
  
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• Radical plan may result in two England-Australia Ashes series every three years

  06-01-2025 14:06
  ICC to discuss splitting 12 Test nations into two tiersIndia’s support or otherwise for the initiative is keyEngland and Australia could play two Ashes series every three years from 2027 onwards under a radical two-division plan being considered for Test cricket.According to a report in the Melbourne Age Australia, England and India, plus Jay Shah, the new chair of the International Cricket Council, are due to meet later this month to discuss splitting the 12 Test nations into two tiers. I
  
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• Australia not weakened by World Cup failure - Wyatt-Hodge

  06-01-2025 10:40 via bbc.com
  
  Australia will not be weakened in the Women's Ashes by their failure to defend their 20-over World Cup title, says England batter Danni Wyatt-Hodge.
  
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• Having conquered the cricket world Pat Cummins must now bridge the generations | Jack Snape

  06-01-2025 04:03
  
  Winning the Border-Gavaskar Trophy for the first time in a decade means Pat Cummins’ Australian side has won every Test trophy on offer to them. But his ageing side is crying out for new bloodAfter a hard-fought fifth Test victory over India to clinch the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with a 3-1 margin, the post-series press conference with Pat Cummins, wearing a weary grin under a pink brim, began with a juicy full toss of a question: “As a captain,” the journalist asked, “do y
  
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• Heat beat Thunder in Big Bash - scorecard

  06-01-2025 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Latest scorecard from the Big Bash League match between Brisbane Heat and Sydney Thunder at the Gabba.
  
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• World Test Championship - Australia join SA in final

  05-01-2025 11:13 via bbc.com
  
  Australia have joined South Africa in June's World Test Championship final - BBC Sport looks at the points table, how it all works and how you can follow the final.
  
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• Australia v India lived up to hype, says Cummins

  05-01-2025 10:46 via bbc.com
  
  Australia's series against India lived up to the weighty expectations, says home captain Pat Cummins after his side won 3-1 to regain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
  
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• Australia race to victory and series win over India

  05-01-2025 08:20 via bbc.com
  
  Australia race to victory on day three of the Fifth Test in Sydney with Scott Boland taking 6-45 to help regain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
  
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• Australia beat India to claim series victory

  05-01-2025 08:11 via bbc.com
  
  Watch highlights as Australia beat India by six wickets in Sydney and win the five-match Test series 3-1.
  
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• As the Taliban open their doors to tourism, they are closing windows on women | Catherine Bennett

  05-01-2025 08:00
  
  Specialist travel companies are using euphemisms to avoid the gender apartheidHaving denied Afghan women jobs, education and free movement, ordered them to be totally covered, banned them from parks, removed their critical healthcare and silenced them with a ban on audible speech, the Taliban have plainly reached the point where the joy of torturing half the population has to be balanced, like any sensible exercise in mass persecution, with the needs and enjoyment of the male and free.What, for
  
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• Debutant Webster clinches series victory for Australia

  05-01-2025 07:26 via bbc.com
  
  Debutant Beau Webster scores the winning runs as Australia beat India by six wickets to regain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
  
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• 'Can you believe it?' - Smith falls one short of 10,000 Test runs

  05-01-2025 07:24 via bbc.com
  
  Steve Smith falls to Prasidh Krishna, leaving the Australian batter one short of reaching 10,000 career Test runs.
  
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• 'Can you believe it?' - Smith falls one run short of big milestone

  05-01-2025 07:24 via bbc.com
  
  Steve Smith falls to Prasidh Krishna, leaving the Australian batter one short of reaching 10,000 career Test runs.
  
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• Australia’s bowlers batter India to keep home fires burning for World Championship tilt

  05-01-2025 06:37
  
  India 185 & 157; Australia 181 & 162-4, win by six wicketsHead and Webster see hosts home for 3-1 series successIn the very end, it was less fizz than fizzle, though something else had earlier threatened. Mind you, the very end came right in the middle, Australia winning the fifth Test against India halfway through the third day in Sydney.It wasn’t even the middle if you counted overs bowled, the match using 197 of a possible 450 on a pitch that grew less fit for purpose with each
  
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• Australia win Border-Gavaskar series 3-1 against India – as it happened

  05-01-2025 05:15
  
  Travis Head and Beau Webster lead winning run chase of 162India come to rue day two injury to bowling star Jasprit Bumrah35th over: India 148-7 (Washington 7, Siraj 1) Mohammed Siraj at No9 is not a comforting prospect for India. So presumably Bumrah will bat last, if he must, to make sure that warm-up is next to his bowling warm-up? The Indian camp said he had back spasms, which might be manageable. Siraj gets a run first ball though, to fine leg, and Washington has a big square drive to end th
  
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• Australia v India: fifth men’s cricket Test, day three – live

  05-01-2025 02:34
  
  Updates from Day 3 of New Year’s Test at the SCGAustralia 71-3 at lunch needing 91 runs for victoryAny thoughts? Email our writers35th over: India 148-7 (Washington 7, Siraj 1) Mohammed Siraj at No9 is not a comforting prospect for India. So presumably Bumrah will bat last, if he must, to make sure that warm-up is next to his bowling warm-up? The Indian camp said he had back spasms, which might be manageable. Siraj gets a run first ball though, to fine leg, and Washington has a big square
  
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• Rickelton hits 259 as SA take control against Pakistan

  04-01-2025 17:10 via bbc.com
  
  Ryan Rickelton moves joint-seventh in South Africa's all-time top scorers in a Test innings after hitting 259 in the second Test against Pakistan.
  
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