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Lack Of Fake Excitement Allows Tests To Thrive
This Test series has been a bit of an eye opener, not least for raising the suggestion that it may just be possible for cricket to make for compulsive viewing without every other ball disappearing for six, accompanied by short skirted schoolgirls jumping up and down and twirling their pom poms. I smell revolution in the air. Expect an announcement shortly that the ECB is cancelling The Hundred, and moving the County Championship back to a time of year when its spectators aren’t being carted off to A&E with frostbite or hypothermia.
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September 8,2019
The Cricket Paper
Loan Star Samit Is Aiming TO Help Fire The Dragons
SAMIT PATEL entered uncharted territory when he walked into the Glamorgan dressing room but is confident he can help navigate the Welsh county to an incredible red-ball promotion.
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September 8,2019
The Cricket Paper
Dane's Got Sightsset On A Seat At Top Table!
FRESH from suffering an agonising T20 Blast quarter-final defeat to Essex on Wednesday night, Lancashire return to happier surroundings when they host Derbyshire in the County Championship.
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September 8,2019
The Cricket Paper
Moeen's A Marvel As Rapids Aim For Repeat
CENTURY hero Moeen Ali acknowledged his big-hitting quarter-final innings as one of his best ever after steering Worcestershire past Sussex Sharks at the County Ground.
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September 8,2019
The Cricket Paper
Broad Revelling In The Burden Of Unsettling The Poor Lefties
Derek Pringle examines the more senior role played by Stuart Broad this series – in particular when it comes to vexing Australian left-handers.
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September 8,2019
The Cricket Paper
Bowling To Smith Is No Big Secret, He Has Even Told England How To
Derek Pringle enters the debate in solving a problem like Steve Smith – although as the ex-England bowler reveals, it really is no great mystery.
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September 8,2019
The Cricket Paper
Roy Can Be Test Success Like Warner, Says Arthur
Richard Edwards finds support for struggling England batsman Jason Roy in the shape of a former Australia coach with designs on the England job.
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September 8,2019
The Cricket Paper
Bears Aim To Stop Essex And Boost Survival Bid
EDGBASTON plays host to a crunch clash next week – that will have huge ramifications at both ends of the County Championship table.
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September 8,2019
The Cricket Paper
Smith's The Difference As England's Hopes Hang By A Thread
STEVE Smith’s remarkable first innings double-hundred has put Australia in pole position to retain the Ashes after a thrilling, yet rain-affected, first four days at Old Trafford.
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September 8,2019
The Cricket Paper
Bates' Keeping Up Appearances For The Modern-Day Gloveman
Jeremy Blackmore catches up with former Hampshire player Michael Bates who, in retirement, has written a book examining the role of specialist keepers.
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September 8,2019
The Cricket Paper
Top Knock From Knight Has Gone Down A Storm
Women’s Kia super league round-up.
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September 8,2019
The Cricket Paper
At Last A Genius In The Mould Of KP That We Can All Take To Our Heart
Peter Hayter turns back the clock to relive the controversy surrounding ‘KP: Story of a Genius’ contrasting the squad unity in this year’s series to that of seven years ago.
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September 8,2019
The Cricket Paper
Woodhall Seal Their First Title With A Six
THERE is no better way to win your first league title than with six of the best.
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September 8,2019
The Cricket Paper
Appointment Of Misbah Is Positive Move
Saj Sadiq discusses the many changes to the PCB since the World Cup, not least a partnership which promises to lead the country to new heights.
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September 8,2019
The Cricket Paper
Unlikely Hero Is Now A Regular Fixture
Adam Collins plots the rapid rise of Marnus Labuschagne, the ‘little known’ replacement who helped take Australia to the brink of retaining the Ashes
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August 25, 2019
The Cricket Paper
Ten Doeschate: Somersset's Lead Was Big - Now It's A Great Race
Paul Hiscock hears the Essex captain relishing the delicious prospect of a County Championship title race that could go down to a last-match decider at Taunton
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August 25, 2019
The Cricket Paper
Smith's Show Of Bravery Should Act As Wake-up Call
Peter Hayter argues it is high time cricket looked to appoint independent experts to make key player welfare calls, regardless of the player’s opinion
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August 25, 2019
The Cricket Paper
Six Of The Best Thanks To Sam's Deadly Dozen
ADAM Wheater answered the call for a calm and collected approach when mayhem ensued on day three of the match at Canterbury when 26 wickets fell in less than three sessions, with Kent dismissed for 40 in their second innings.
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August 25, 2019
The Cricket Paper
Pace, Power And Variation, The Deadly Trio Have It All Covered
Derek Pringle doffs his cap to an Australian bowling attack which has stuck to a master plan in targeting the vulnerabilities of each individual England batter
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August 25, 2019
The Cricket Paper
Miracles Happen Says Hero Denly
JOE Denly insists England can keep their Ashes hopes alive and pull off another Headingley miracle by chasing down 359 to win the third Test in Leeds.
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August 25, 2019
The Cricket Paper
Lehmann: Archer's Like A Windies Great
AS England and Australia fight tooth and nail in round three of the Ashes at Headingley, Darren Lehmann, the former Australia coach, likens Jofra Archer, England’s ferocious new strike bowler, to one of the great battery of West Indian pacemen of the 1970s, 80s and early 90s.
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August 25, 2019
The Cricket Paper
I'm In The Form Of My Life, Claims Senior Servant Stokes
Chris Stocks catches up with England batting hero Ben Stokes after his heroics at Lord’s and discusses his new role in the side for the rest of the Ashes series
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August 25, 2019
The Cricket Paper
IPL Nets Give New Star Inside Track On Smith –Coach
TWENTY20 and Test cricket may be poles apart in terms of format – but Rajasthan Royals’ coach Paddy Upton has seen enough of Jofra Archer to convince him that he can be as successful in the longer format as he has been in cricket’s shortest.
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August 25, 2019
The Cricket Paper
England's Ultimate Price For Their Latest Walk Of Shame
Derek Pringle delivers the latest tale of woe of England’s batsmen following their wretched first innings batting performance on Friday
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August 25, 2019
The Cricket Paper
Denly And Root Dig In Deep To Keep Ashes Hopes Alive
AFTER their Headingley horror show on the second day of this third Test against Australia all but ended their chances of regaining the Ashes, England have at least regained some pride with a battling batting display to take the contest into a fourth day.
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August 25, 2019
the cricket paper
critics can't ignore rise of bangladesh and afghans
tim wigmore’s weekly look at the game below the test-playing nations.
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october 07,2016
the cricket paper
i'm still hoping to follow amir back into the pakistan team
saj sadiq talks to pakistan’s disgraced opening bowler mohammad asif who is playing again after his ban and jail term for spot-fixing six years ago.
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october 07,2016
The Cricket Paper
How Leach Became New Action Hero
Chris Stocks speaks to England new boy Jack Leach about his hopes for pinning down a regular international place
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March 23,2018
The Cricket Paper
Great Stuff KP, But It Could've Been Better
Great Stuff KP, But It Could've Been Better
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March 23,2018
The Cricket Paper
Ireland Can Take A Lead From New Zealand
Ireland Can Take A Lead From New Zealand
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