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/ 5 months agoTransplant Ashes shows the wonders of a second innings
A rather different Ashes contest took place last month that garnered a rather unusual result. The three-match ‘Transplant Ashes’, contested between...
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/ 5 months agoBell keeps her nerve as England claw one back
By Toby Reynolds July 4, The Kia Oval, Kennington England Women 171-9 (Dunkley 75, Wyatt-Hodge 66, Reddy 3-32, Sharma 3-27) India...
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/ 5 months agoMisfiring England stuck in reverse
By Horace Zaltzman July 1, Seat Unique Stadium, Bristol India Women 181-4 (Rodrigues 63, A Kaur 63*, Bell 2-17, Filer 1-42,...
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/ 5 months agoIt’s all about the ball
THE FOCUS in the most recent round of Championship cricket was again on the Kookaburra ball with, it’s fair to say,...
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/ 5 months agoLeaders slip up but chasing pack still distant
WHEN LEICESTERSHIRE and Derbyshire – the top two sides in the second division – entered the latest round of games they...
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/ 5 months agoWood’s burst sends Lancs clear at top
By Graham Hardcastle July 5, Old Trafford, Manchester Lancashire Lightning 178-6Derbyshire Falcons 136-6 Lancashire Lightning won by 42 runs Toss: Derbyshire...
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/ 5 months agoAckermann’s blitz has Durham dreaming
By ECB Reporters July 4, Chester-le-Street Durham 231-5Notts Outlaws 182 Durham won by 49 runs Toss: Notts Outlaws won the toss...
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/ 5 months agoWharton and Luxton pummel the Royals
Graham Hardcastle July 4, Headingley, Leeds Yorkshire 233-6Worcestershire Rapids 192 Yorkshire won by 41 runs Toss: Worcestershire Rapids won the toss...
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/ 5 months agoBears in mix as Hain and Mousley shine
By Jon Culley July 4, County Ground, Leicester Leicestershire Foxes 154 Bears 158-4 Bears won by 6 wickets Toss: Bears won...
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/ 5 months agoSalt and Buttler slay Steelbacks
By Ben Kosky July 4, County Ground, Northampton Northants Steelbacks 177 Lancashire Lightning 181-5 Lancashire Lightning won by 5 wickets Toss:...
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/ 5 months agoLeonard’s five sees former club suffer
By Richard Latham July 4, County Ground, Taunton Glamorgan 176-7Somerset 174-9 Glamorgan won by 2 runs Toss: Somerset won the toss...
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/ 5 months agoEagles near exit, Taylor keeps champions alive
By Alex Smith July 4, Chelmsford Gloucestershire 184-7Essex 171 Gloucestershire won by 13 runs Toss: Essex won the toss and decided...
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/ 5 months agoSharks smash Spitfires as Lamb takes five
By Fred Atkins July 4, The Spitfire Ground, Canterbury Sussex Sharks 195-9Kent Spitfires 161 Sussex Sharks won by 34 runs Toss:...
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/ 5 months agoDarren Stevens: Time to give the County Championship a showcase final
A little less than three weeks ago, South Africa were crowned Test champions after defying the odds to beat Australian in...
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/ 5 months agoSLOW DOWN! SPINNERS’ PACE SHOWS ENGLISH ANXIETY
LAUREN WINFIELD-HILL Lauren Winfield-Hill on England’s struggling bowling unit and rigid thinking England weren’t at the races at all in the...
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/ 5 months agoThunder stay afloat as Essex subside
By Graham Hardcastle July 5, Old Trafford, Manchester Essex Women 47-7 Lancashire Thunder 55-2 Lancashire Thunder win by 8 wickets (DLS...
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/ 5 months agoBlaze on track as they tame Hawks
By Brian Halford July 4, Queen’s Park, Chesterfield The Blaze 188-6 Hampshire Women 151 The Blaze won by 37 runs Toss:...
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/ 5 months agoDurham do the double as Somerset stay bottom
By ECB Reporters July 4, Chester-le-Street Durham Women 154-4 Somerset Women 148-7 Durham Women won by 6 runs Toss: Somerset Women...
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/ 5 months agoKatya Witney: Shackled England still haunted by Winter demons
England appear unable to shake off the hangover from a confidence-shattering winter, writes Katya Witney England Women’s losses in the first...
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/ 5 months agoRichard Clarke: Let’s bin the Kookaburra experiment, and fast
The first principle of experimentation is that you must not fool yourself,” said the eminent scientist, Richard Feynman. “And you are...
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/ 5 months agoTHE LOCKDOWN THAT CHANGED MY LIFE
The Warwickshire wrist-spinner on a transformational period in his life that allowed him to fulfil a dream which appeared to be...
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/ 5 months agoTHE GREATEST XI No.14 SURREY
Alan Butcher, the former Surrey batter and coach, selects his county’s all-star line-up 1. JACK HOBBS 598 matches (in first-class cricket...
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/ 5 months agoDorset upset Cornwall as records fall
DORSET OPENING pair Finn Gordon and Will Tripcony re-wrote a chapter of the county’s record books to end Cornwall’s unbeaten record...
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/ 5 months agoRESULTS
BIRMINGHAM & DISTRICT Berkswell 257 lost to Shrewsbury 258-6 by 4 wickets Halesowen 327-7 drew with Wolverhampton 209-7 Harborne 207 lost...
