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Toby Roland-Jones takes five as Middlesex recover from nightmare first day
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Monday, 19 August 2019 14:42
Middlesex 75 (Robinson 8 for 34) and 149 for 4 (Robson 61*) trail Sussex 309 (Wells 62, Carey 56, Beer 77, Roland-Jones 5 for 70) by 85 runsA quorum of former Guardian cricket writers had descended upon Hove by pure happenstance on the second day and after much reminiscing about Great Stories We Have Known nobody had the faintest idea…
Vijay Shankar, Samson, Rana, Thakur in A squads for one-dayers
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Monday, 19 August 2019 09:26
Vijay Shankar and Shardul Thakur are set to return to top-flight cricket with the upcoming five-match one-day series against South Africa A in Thiruvananthapuram. The BCCI named two India A squads - one for the first three matches and another for the last two games - and Vijay and Thakur were named in both of them, with Manish Pandey and…
Ben Stokes 'just finds a way' as his rediscovered authority takes on a new significance
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Monday, 19 August 2019 10:17
Two Tests into a pulsating Ashes series, and the notion of "redemption" is already becoming very tedious. One journalist at Lord's even added the word to his listed of muted phrases on Twitter on Sunday afternoon, at the moment that Ben Stokes clipped Nathan Lyon off his toes to jog through to his seventh Test century and - lest we…
'The sky is the limit' for Jofra Archer - Ben Stokes
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Monday, 19 August 2019 10:19
Ben Stokes believes that "the sky is the limit" for Jofra Archer after his remarkable display on Test debut at Lord's, but admitted that the aftermath of his thunderous bouncer to Steven Smith caused "a pretty scary few minutes" as the medical teams assessed Smith for concussion following a direct hit to the side of the neck during his innings…
FICA recommends protection for players over lost contracts
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Monday, 19 August 2019 11:27
In the wake of the Euro T20 slam tournament being cancelled, the Federation of International Cricketers' Association (FICA) is working with the players to see if "any potential recourse is open to them".Two weeks before the tournament was due to start, the organisers of the Euro T20 slam had pulled the plug citing financial problems. This left several players from…
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