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Jack Leach ready to fight for role after battling back from winter illness
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Saturday, 27 June 2020 10:09
Given his health ordeals in New Zealand and South Africa this winter, the inclusion of Jack Leach in England's plans for their return to Test cricket against West Indies next month might initially have come across as something of a risk.This is, after all, a player who admitted fearing for his life when he contracted sepsis in Hamilton in November,…
UK club cricket full of untapped talent from minority backgrounds - Amar Virdi
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Saturday, 27 June 2020 08:23
Amar Virdi, the Surrey offspinner, has said that club cricket in the UK is full of untapped talent from ethnic minority backgrounds and encouraged counties to be proactive in helping young players understand how to break into professional set-ups.Speaking from England's bio-secure bubble at the Ageas Bowl, Virdi detailed the challenges faced by cricketers from Asian backgrounds trying to play…
Phil Simmons enters self-isolation as Alzarri Joseph downplays disruption
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Saturday, 27 June 2020 09:22
Alzarri Joseph has downplayed the significance of the news that West Indies head coach Phil Simmons is self-isolating in his Old Trafford hotel room as a health precaution.Simmons left the West Indies' bubble to attend a funeral on Friday, and has been self-isolating since then in his room on-site. He will watch the squad's second intra-squad warm-up game from his…
Andy Roberts: 'Oshane Thomas will be the first name I'd pencil in on this tour'
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Friday, 26 June 2020 11:20
Former West Indies fast bowler Andy Roberts has said that Oshane Thomas will be the first name he will "pencil" in for West Indies' final Test squad for the three-match series in England, which begins in Southampton from July 8. Speaking to his former West Indies team-mate Michael Holding, Roberts also predicted the young pair of Alzarri Joseph and Chemar…
Amar Virdi hoping to jump to front of England spin queue
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Friday, 26 June 2020 10:08
He is the youngest and least-experienced of the five specialist spinners in England's 30-man training group, but Amar Virdi has insisted he is not at the Ageas Bowl to make up the numbers.Virdi, 21, has only played 23 games in his first-class career, but has already been part of several England Lions squads and earned impressive reviews from his coaches…
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