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• Langer appointed London Spirit head coach

  02-01-2025 17:49 via bbc.com
  
  Former Australia opener Justin Langer is appointed head coach of London Spirit following Trevor Bayliss' departure last month.
  
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• Australia retain Women’s Ashes after beating England by 57 runs in first T20 – live

  20-01-2025 12:37
  Match in Sydney begins at 7.15pm (AEDT)/8.15am (GMT)Share your thoughts with Tanya via email2nd over: Australia 21-0 (Mooney 6, Voll 9) Lauren Bell at the other end. Drifts on the leg side and Mooney flicks her away to the rope, one-legged flamingo style. They run a handful of quick singles and pick up another when Dunkley lets the ball through her legs at cover. And then an overthrow.1st over: Australia 11-0 (Mooney 1, Voll 6) And Kemp starts with a slightly insipid wide. Exciting young starlet
  
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• Australia v England: Women’s Ashes first cricket T20 international – live

  20-01-2025 12:10
  Match in Sydney begins at 7.15pm (AEDT)/8.15am (GMT)Share your thoughts with Tanya via email2nd over: Australia 21-0 (Mooney 6, Voll 9) Lauren Bell at the other end. Drifts on the leg side and Mooney flicks her away to the rope, one-legged flamingo style. They run a handful of quick singles and pick up another when Dunkley lets the ball through her legs at cover. And then an overthrow.1st over: Australia 11-0 (Mooney 1, Voll 6) And Kemp starts with a slightly insipid wide. Exciting young starlet
  
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• Australia relish the pressure of the Women’s Ashes as England squander their chances | Beth Mooney

  19-01-2025 15:00
  England have said T20 is their best format but we take confidence from playing at home and having 11 players who can deliver a knockout blowThis is what we play cricket for. Even though we’ve built up a 6-0 lead in the Ashes, all three games have felt like they’re on a knife’s edge at points. England have got themselves into winning positions and just haven’t been able to land their knockout blow, and we’ve managed to find a way to win the key moments and come away
  
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• Women’s Ashes: Knight backs England’s T20 strength to give them fighting chance

  19-01-2025 14:31
  Captain confident tourists can succeed in T20 formatAustralia won three ODIs to leave tourists on brinkHeather Knight said that England’s strength in the T20 format will give them the best chance of rescuing their Ashes chances with their series hopes hanging by a thread after three straight ODI defeats.England need to win all three T20s, which begin on Monday in Sydney, to stand any chance of regaining the Ashes, but their captain is confident they England can pull off the feat. Continue
  
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• Women’s Ashes: Knight backs England’s T20 strength in rescue mission

  19-01-2025 14:31
  Captain confident tourists can succeed in T20 formatAustralia won three ODIs to leave tourists on brinkHeather Knight said that England’s strength in the T20 format will give them the best chance of rescuing their Ashes chances with their series hopes hanging by a thread after three straight ODI defeats.England need to win all three T20s, which begin on Monday in Sydney, to stand any chance of regaining the Ashes, but their captain is confident they England can pull off the feat. Continue
  
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• England need some honest reflection as failed ‘Jon-Ball’ all but ends Ashes hopes | Raf Nicholson

  18-01-2025 14:53
  
  Heather Knight must cut out excuses and follow Australia’s lead before plotting an unlikely series comeback in the T20sThe only time I ever saw Meg Lanning cry was immediately after the 2017 World Cup semi-final. Australia had been unexpectedly gut-punched by Harmanpreet Kaur, sent packing from a tournament they were favourites to win. Lanning was trying to make sense of it all, and was so upset you could hear her voice breaking.What happened after that is well-documented: Lanning went awa
  
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• Relax, Australia: confected outrage about Sam Konstas hides the real issue | Barney Ronay

  18-01-2025 09:00
  
  The energy expended on my ‘Ashes war of words’ would be better directed at the fight for the future of Test cricketAustralia: an apology. Earlier this week I wrote an article that compared one of that nation’s brightest sporting stars to a comedic figure with a short-lived pop celebrity lifespan, causing outrage among Australia’s media and elite cricketers. It was cheap, disrespectful and unfair. It is now time to make amends. Raygun, I’m sorry. I’m sorry I co
  
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• Root stars with bat as Royals beat Capitals - SA20 scorecard

  18-01-2025 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Latest scorecard from the SA20 match between Pretoria Capitals and Paarl Royals at Centurion.
  
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• MI Cape Town v Joburg Super Kings - SA20 scorecard

  18-01-2025 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Latest scorecard from the SA20 match between MI Cape Town and Joburg Super Kings at Newlands.
  
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• Sports quiz of the week: Alexander Isak, Australian Open, Tyson Fury and WSL

  17-01-2025 15:11
  
  Have you been following the big (and small) stories in football, tennis, boxing, cricket, snooker and ice hockey? Continue reading...
  
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• Saqib Mahmood belatedly given India visa to fly out with England squad

  17-01-2025 13:48
  
  Bowler is of Pakistani heritage and faced long visa delayEight-match white-ball series begins next WednesdayEngland will begin their intended white-ball reboot under Brendon McCullum with a full complement of fast bowlers after Saqib Mahmood was belatedly granted a visa for the tour of India that departs on Friday evening.Mahmood was forced to miss a training camp for the quicks in Abu Dhabi this past week after a delay in receiving the necessary paperwork for the eight-match white-ball series i
  
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• 'A moment of Ashes history' - Gardner's grand day out

  17-01-2025 10:25 via bbc.com
  
  Ash Gardner leads Australia's dominant day with her maiden international hundred and the 'catch of the century', all in a day's work.
  
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• ‘We’re still alive’: England seek inspiration with Women’s Ashes slipping away

  17-01-2025 10:14
  Tourists’ skipper recalls 2023 series and similar deficit Kate Cross being prioritised for possible Test returnEngland’s captain Heather Knight says England face a “tough” battle to win the Ashes but urged her team to “keep believing” after Australia won a clean sweep of the ODIs with an 86-run victory at Hobart which leaves the hosts 6-0 up on points.England now need to win all three of the T20s (worth two points apiece), and the one-off Test (worth four poin
  
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• Gardner stars as Australia seal ODI clean sweep

  17-01-2025 08:25 via bbc.com
  
  Ash Gardner hits a century and takes a spectacular catch as Australia complete an ODI clean sweep to leave England's hopes of regaining the Women's Ashes hanging by a thread.
  
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• Ashleigh Gardner fills one of few gaps on CV with first international century | Geoff Lemon

  17-01-2025 08:17
  Australia all-rounder adds catch for the ages to her breakthrough hundred in the third ODI against England while a more prominent role beckonsNot many dimensions away across the multiverse, there is a world where Ashleigh Gardner is already Australian captain across formats. When Meg Lanning surprisingly called time on an international career in 2023 when she might still have had years to play, selectors had the chance to shift the team towards the next generation. It felt regressive to instead
  
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• England on the brink as Australia seal ODI clean sweep

  17-01-2025 07:45 via bbc.com
  
  Ash Gardner's century and Alana King's 5-46 sees England slump to a 3-0 defeat in the ODI leg of the Women's Ashes.
  
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• Gardner catch 'one of the moments of Women's Ashes history'

  17-01-2025 07:41 via bbc.com
  
  Ash Gardner takes a "sensational" boundary catch as Australia cruise to victory over England in the third ODI of the Women's Ashes.
  
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• Australia beat England by 86 runs: third Women’s Ashes one-day cricket international – as it happened

  17-01-2025 07:26
  
  Ash Gardner century sets up comfortable win in HobartVictory sees Australia take 6-0 lead in multi-format series1st over: Australia 1-0 (Litchfield 1, Healy 0) I’m not sure Heather Knight would have reviewed that were it anybody other than Healy. She looked a little reluctant but was talked into it by Jones.Healy is not out! She missed an attempted pull outside leg stump and Amy Jones was convinced it had brushed the glove. There was a noise, but the technology confirmed it hit Healy&rsquo
  
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• Ash Gardner hits ton as Australia edge towards Women’s Ashes series victory over England

  17-01-2025 07:22
  
  Third ODI: Australia, 308-8, beat England, 222, by 86 runsThird straight 50-over win gives hosts 6-0 lead heading into T20sThere was a sense of inevitability about the result of the third Ashes ODI, from the moment Ash Gardner decided she was going to pummel Sophie Ecclestone for six in her first over of the day. Gardner has been England’s Ashes nemesis before – who can forget the 12 wickets she took in the 2023 Trent Bridge Test while nursing a finger injury?Now, here she was, takin
  
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• Ash Gardner blasts Australia towards Women’s Ashes series victory over England

  17-01-2025 07:22
  Third ODI: Australia 308-8 beat England 222 by 86 runsHosts take 6-0 lead heading into T20sThere was a sense of inevitability about the result of the third Ashes ODI, from the moment Ash Gardner decided she was going to pummel Sophie Ecclestone for six in her first over. Gardner has been England’s Ashes nemesis before – who can forget the 12 wickets she took in the 2023 Trent Bridge Test while nursing a finger injury?Now, here she was, taking on England’s best bowler just after
  
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• Gardner hits stunning maiden international century

  17-01-2025 05:00 via bbc.com
  
  Watch Ashleigh Gardner's stunning maiden international century during the third Women's Ashes ODI.
  
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• Wareham's cameo caps off brilliant Australia innings

  17-01-2025 04:36 via bbc.com
  
  Georgia Wareham propels Australia beyond 300 in the third Women's Ashes ODI.
  
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• Australia v England: third Women’s Ashes one-day cricket international – live

  17-01-2025 02:07
  Updates from Hobart; start 11.05pm GMT/10.05am AETSign up for The Spin | Drop Rob an email1st over: Australia 1-0 (Litchfield 1, Healy 0) I’m not sure Heather Knight would have reviewed that were it anybody other than Healy. She looked a little reluctant but was talked into it by Jones.Healy is not out! She missed an attempted pull outside leg stump and Amy Jones was convinced it had brushed the glove. There was a noise, but the technology confirmed it hit Healy’s shirt rather than t
  
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• Sunrisers Eastern Cape beat Durban Super Giants by 58 runs - SA20 scorecard

  17-01-2025 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Latest scorecard from the SA20 game between Durban's Super Giants and Sunrisers Eastern Cape at Kingsmead, Durban.
  
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• Pakistan building big lead over West Indies - first Test scorecard

  17-01-2025 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Latest scorecard from the first Test between Pakistan and West Indies in Multan.
  
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• Northants re-sign Agar for T20 Blast group stage

  16-01-2025 19:07 via bbc.com
  
  Northamptonshire re-sign Australia spin bowler Ashton Agar for the T20 Blast group stage.
  
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• Derbyshire re-sign New Zealand fast bowler Tickner

  16-01-2025 18:27 via bbc.com
  
  New Zealand fast bowler Blair Tickner re-joins Derbyshire after he abruptly ended his spell with the County Championship side last season.
  
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• The greatest away series wins in cricket history

  16-01-2025 16:27
  
  From England beating Australia in 1895 to New Zealand in India last year, here are the sport’s best away performancesBy Phil Walker and John Stern for Wisden Cricket MonthlyThe stars
  Graeme Smith led the charge with bat and balls, inspiring Dale Steyn, the leading wicket-taker in the series, to turn all-rounder and help JP Duminy play the innings of his life, while AB de Villiers announced himself as one of the modern greats. Continue reading...
  
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• Sciver-Brunt wants England to 'give best show of themselves'

  16-01-2025 12:33 via bbc.com
  
  England all-rounder Nat Sciver-Brunt says she wants her side to "give the best show of themselves" in the third Women's Ashes one-day international.
  
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