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• England opener Crawley extends Kent contract

  01-10-2024 13:40 via bbc.com
  
  England opener Zak Crawley signs a contract extension with Kent until the end of the 2025 season.
  
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• Pat Cummins celebrates one of Australia's 'great wins' over India in MCG Test – video

  30-12-2024 12:01
  
  The Australia captain Pat Cummins hailed his side's Test victory against India as one of the country's 'great wins' after a dramatic final day at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The hosts took seven final-session wickets to win by 184 runs and take a 2-1 lead in the series between two of the sports' heavyweights. Australia gamble pays off with late flurry of India wickets in classic TestBigger than Bradman: bumper Test breaks Australia cricket crowd record Continue reading...
  
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• The alternative 2024 sports awards: quotes, gaffes and animal cameos

  30-12-2024 09:00
  
  The best and worst of 2024 – featuring Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the war on woke and the happiest 34 seconds of the yearKeeper Lewis Patching – saying sorry in March after signing on loan for Rushden & Diamonds, conceding four, headbutting a fan in the bar and being sacked on the same day. “I was disappointed how the game panned out … I’d like to apologise and wish the club/supporter all the best moving forward.” Continue reading...
  
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• Australia gamble pays off with late flurry of India wickets in all-time classic Test

  30-12-2024 08:56
  
  Australia 474 & 234 beat India 369 & 155 by 184 runsHosts take seven final-session wickets for 2-1 lead at MCGIn the end, the dice landed the right way up for the shooter. Had India managed to bat for another hour, another 14 overs, Australia’s tactics would have been sliced up: too conservative in batting into the final day. But Australia’s gamble was about laying off risk on the other half of the equation, all but eliminating India’s chance of a win at the cost of red
  
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• Australia gamble pays off as India collapse late in all-time classic Boxing Day Test

  30-12-2024 08:56
  
  Australia 474 & 234 beat India 369 & 155 by 184 runsHosts take seven final-session wickets for 2-1 lead at MCGIn the end, the dice landed the right way up for the shooter. Had India managed to bat for another hour, another 14 overs, Australia’s tactics would have been sliced up: too conservative in batting into the final day. But Australia’s gamble was about laying off risk on the other half of the equation, all but eliminating India’s chance of a win at the cost of red
  
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• Australia v India: fourth men’s cricket Test, day five – as it happened

  30-12-2024 08:01
  
  Australia take 2-1 lead in Border-Gavaskar series with tense 184-run win on day five of record-breaking Boxing Day TestThere have been 17 bigger chases to win a Test, and this is match number 2571.Or 92 overs to survive. Including the change of innings, Australia have cost themselves four overs to make six runs. Don’t think that was worth it. But they have a hampered bowler in Starc with his rib problem, and a fifth bowler who doesn’t bowl in Marsh. Continue reading...
  
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• Australia defeat India with flurry of wickets in final session of all-time classic Test

  30-12-2024 08:01
  
  Australia take 2-1 lead in Border-Gavaskar series with tense 184-run win on day five of record-breaking Boxing Day TestThere have been 17 bigger chases to win a Test, and this is match number 2571.Or 92 overs to survive. Including the change of innings, Australia have cost themselves four overs to make six runs. Don’t think that was worth it. But they have a hampered bowler in Starc with his rib problem, and a fifth bowler who doesn’t bowl in Marsh. Continue reading...
  
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• Australia defeat India by 184 runs in fourth men’s cricket Test – live reaction

  30-12-2024 07:25
  
  Australia take 2-1 series lead over India with tense victory during final session on day five of Boxing Day Test at the MCGThere have been 17 bigger chases to win a Test, and this is match number 2571.Or 92 overs to survive. Including the change of innings, Australia have cost themselves four overs to make six runs. Don’t think that was worth it. But they have a hampered bowler in Starc with his rib problem, and a fifth bowler who doesn’t bowl in Marsh. Continue reading...
  
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• Bigger than Bradman: bumper Boxing Day Test breaks record for cricket crowd in Australia

  30-12-2024 04:14
  A record 373,691 people attend Boxing Day Test at MCGAttendance beats 1937 record in which Bradman scored 270Boxing Day Test: live updates as Australia defeat IndiaNot even the great Don Bradman drew such a crowd. At the MCG on Monday, 74,362 walked through the turnstiles, taking the total attendance of the Boxing Day Test between Australia and India to 373,691.The five-day attendance is now the largest for any Test in Australia. It eclipsed the 350,534 which watched the six-day Test between Aus
  
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• 351,000… and counting: bumper Boxing Day Test breaks record for cricket crowd in Australia

  30-12-2024 04:14
  A record 373,691 people have attended the Boxing Day TestAttendance beats 1937 record in which Bradman scored 270 at MCGBoxing Day Test: live updates from Australia vs India at the MCGNot even the great Don Bradman drew such a crowd. At the MCG on Monday, more than 50,000 fans had walked through the turnstiles by lunchtime, making the total attendance of the Boxing Day Test between Australia and India more than 351,000.The five-day attendance tallyis now the largest attendance for any Test in Au
  
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• Australia v India: fourth men’s cricket Test, day five – live

  30-12-2024 01:56
  Updates from the Boxing Day Test at the MCGAustralia all out 234. India chasing 340 to winAny thoughts? Get in touch with an emailThere have been 17 bigger chases to win a Test, and this is match number 2571.Or 92 overs to survive. Including the change of innings, Australia have cost themselves four overs to make six runs. Don’t think that was worth it. But they have a hampered bowler in Starc with his rib problem, and a fifth bowler who doesn’t bowl in Marsh. Continue reading...
  
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• His cricket was fierce but 156 summers later, has Australia done justice to Johnny Mullagh?

  29-12-2024 15:00
  
  Trailblazer whose name adorns the prize for player of the Boxing Day Test would be shocked at the lack of Indigenous Test cricketers in Australia’s historySam Konstas lit up the MCG with his audacious ‘ramp’ shots in the fourth Test against India. But Johnny ‘Unaarrim’ Mullagh, Australia’s first Indigenous sporting hero was ramping 150 summers ago.“Dropping on one knee to a fast rising ball, he would hold his bat over his shoulder and parallel to the gro
  
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• South Africa creep past Pakistan after dramatic collapse to reach WTC final

  29-12-2024 12:59
  Pakistan 211 and 237; South Africa 301 and 150-8Mohammad Abbas takes 6-54 but denied famous winFast bowlers Kagiso Rabada and Marco Jansen turned batting heroes as South Africa edged out Pakistan by two wickets to win a thrilling first Test at Centurion and book themselves a place in next year’s World Test Championship final.Rabada scored 31 and Jansen 16 in an unbeaten partnership of 51 off 50 balls to see South Africa over the line and deny Pakistan a dramatic comeback victory after Moha
  
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• Rabada sends SA into Test final with thrilling win

  29-12-2024 12:38 via bbc.com
  
  South Africa secure their place in June's World Test Championship final by holding their nerve to beat Pakistan by two wickets on an enthralling fourth day of the first Test in Centurion.
  
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• Best shots of Lyon & Boland's key last-wicket stand

  29-12-2024 11:26 via bbc.com
  
  Tailenders Nathan Lyon and Scott Boland put on an unbeaten stand of 55 to take Australia's lead to 333 runs in the fourth Test against India.
  
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• Australia’s tail defies India after Bumrah fireworks to set up thrilling MCG finish

  29-12-2024 11:24
  
  Fourth Test, day four: Australia 474 and 228-9; India 369Hosts lead by 333 runs going into final day in MelbourneIt’s not as though this series wasn’t already about Jasprit Bumrah. Since the very first evening of the first Test, when he tore up Australia’s top order in the fading light of Perth, he has been both the threat and the act of making good on it. Eight wickets there, nine in Brisbane, still a chance of nine in Melbourne, even managing four in Adelaide when his team&rs
  
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• 'Catching practice!' - Jaiswal's drops cost India

  29-12-2024 09:21 via bbc.com
  
  India's Yashasvi Jaiswal drops three catches on day four of the fourth Test against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
  
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• Australia’s tenacious tail defies India to set up thrilling final day of fourth Test

  29-12-2024 08:24
  
  Updates from the Boxing Day Test at the MCGIndia out for 369; Australia creep to lead of 333Any thoughts? Get in touch with an emailJohn Starbuck, our most maritime-coded correspondent, writes in. “‘Morning, Geoff. Oh how I miss Richie saying ‘Morning everyone’. I’m currently drinking golden rum to help me sleep later (he says) and carrying on with re-reading Jasper Fforde’s The Woman Who Died a Lot, which I recommend, even though the dominant sport is not cri
  
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• Australia v India: fourth men’s cricket Test, day four – as it happened

  29-12-2024 08:24
  
  Updates from the Boxing Day Test at the MCGIndia out for 369; Australia creep to lead of 333John Starbuck, our most maritime-coded correspondent, writes in. “‘Morning, Geoff. Oh how I miss Richie saying ‘Morning everyone’. I’m currently drinking golden rum to help me sleep later (he says) and carrying on with re-reading Jasper Fforde’s The Woman Who Died a Lot, which I recommend, even though the dominant sport is not cricket, but croquet. More power to your ty
  
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• Australia rally after Bumrah genius on riveting day

  29-12-2024 08:21 via bbc.com
  
  Crucial lower-order runs keep Australia in the ascendancy on a gripping fourth day of the fourth Test against India in Melbourne.
  
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• 'Brilliant' Bumrah removes Head & Marsh in same over

  29-12-2024 08:13 via bbc.com
  
  Jasprit Bumrah removes Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh in the same over as India fight back in the fourth Test against Australia.
  
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• Vince fails but Sixers see off Heat - BBL scorecard

  29-12-2024 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Latest scorecard from the Big Bash League match between Brisbane Heat and Sydney Sixers at the Gabba.
  
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• Australia v India: fourth men’s cricket Test, day four – live

  29-12-2024 00:37
  
  Updates from the Boxing Day Test at the MCGIndia dismissed for 369; Konstas Part II loomsAny thoughts? Get in touch with an emailJohn Starbuck, our most maritime-coded correspondent, writes in. “‘Morning, Geoff. Oh how I miss Richie saying ‘Morning everyone’. I’m currently drinking golden rum to help me sleep later (he says) and carrying on with re-reading Jasper Fforde’s The Woman Who Died a Lot, which I recommend, even though the dominant sport is not cricke
  
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• Which sport won 2024? Australia audiences feast on free-to-air despite streaming boom | Jack Snape

  28-12-2024 20:00
  
  Matildas ratings bonanza gives way to AFL and NRL blockbuster events in 2024 as more Australians move from traditional TV to online viewingThe Matildas may have offered the nation a historic ratings bonanza last year, but in 2024 the list of Australia’s most-watched sporting broadcasts returned to orthodoxy despite a shift from the old idiot box towards smart TVs and gadgets.Free-to-air live sports dominate the list of most watched programmes. So dominant are sporting events only The Sign
  
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• Nitish Kumar Reddy blossoms to give India hope as century stalls Australia

  28-12-2024 12:57
  Fourth Test, day three: Australia 474; India 358-9Reddy shares 127-run stand with Washington SundarAs India’s tour of Australia has worn on, the coverage has become preoccupied with fading veterans - Steve Smith, Usman Khawaja, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli – and speculation about whether somebody’s decent score is a last hurrah, or if a lack of one is a terminal sign. A preoccupation with whether body language or temper tantrums or patterns of dismissal mean one thing or another,
  
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• Reddy's best shots from his maiden Test century

  28-12-2024 10:27 via bbc.com
  
  India's Nitish Kumar Reddy hits 11 boundaries as he records his first Test century on the third day of the fourth Test against Australia.
  
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• 'What has he done?!' - Pant out after scoop attempt

  28-12-2024 09:35 via bbc.com
  
  India's Rishabh Pant is caught by Nathan Lyon off the bowling of Scott Boland after a failed scoop shot on the third day of the fourth Test.
  
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• Three memories of cricket in 2024

  28-12-2024 09:00
  
  Following on from reviews of 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021,2022 and 2023, here are a few more moments to savourBy Gary Naylor for the 99.94 Cricket BlogSuch is the volume of Test cricket played by England that perspective is hard to discern – great wins soon displaced by great defeats, social media heroes elbowed out by social media villains (often the same player) and generational talents suddenly condemned as also-rans. Cricket, with its statistical tables, sortable data
  
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• 'Romance, valour and emotion' - Reddy gets to century

  28-12-2024 08:50 via bbc.com
  
  Nitish Kumar Reddy hits a superb first Test century to keep India in the fourth Test against Australia.
  
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• 'The drama is unrelenting!' - Bumrah goes for a duck

  28-12-2024 08:37 via bbc.com
  
  Watch as Australia's Pat Cummins removes Jasprit Bumrah to reduce India to 350-9 on the third day of the fourth Test in Melbourne.
  
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