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/ 8 years agoChris Silverwood leaves champions Essex to become England pace bowling coach
...in 2016, following the departure of Paul Grayson in September 2015. As the back-to-back title champions head into the close season...
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/ 8 years agoNixon column: There’s not a big budget so we’ll build from within at Leicestershire
(Photo: Getty Images) By Paul Nixon Receiving the phone call on Sunday evening from Wasim Khan offering me the job at...
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/ 8 years agoIt’s an uncomfortable truth Joe, you have to bat at 3!
...to be, the better for all concerned. And that process should begin with any of Bayliss, or his No.2 Paul Farbrace...
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/ 9 years agoAwards season – Paul Nixon gives out his gongs for this year’s cricket stars
By Paul Nixon WITH the season end comes the awards for the year. This week saw the PCA hand out their...
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/ 9 years agoWith Ashes spots up for grabs there’s no better time to be on the Lions tour
...and if they do at least there appears to be a decent back-up plan. England Lions squad: Dom Bess (Somerset) Joe...
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County Reviews
/ 9 years agoChris Read backs Notts to succeed in top flight
...to promotion rivals Worcestershire and Northamptonshire before Read dug them out of a hole at Hove. Notts have already signed Durham...
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/ 9 years agoGale blasts Yorkshire players for ’embarrassing’ defeat to Essex
(Photo: Getty Images) By Paul Hiscock Yorkshire were the latest victims to fall foul of the Essex steamroller as the White...
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/ 9 years agoTroughton: ‘We deserve to be where we are’
By Paul Bolton Warwickshire first team coach Jim Troughton has admitted that his players face a year of hard graft if...
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/ 9 years agoEngland announce Ashes squad that sees Ballance and Vince recalled
...of the West Indies Test series. Former New Zealand bowler Shane Bond has been appointed by the ECB as a bowling...
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/ 9 years agoKeaton Jennings becomes latest in exodus at Durham
...be interested in Jennings after sealing the move of Paul Coughlin earlier this month, but were unable to complete the double...
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/ 9 years agoIan Botham criticises ECB for allowing Durham stars to be poached
...rivals. Highly-rated T20 captain Paul Coughlin became the latest player to leave Durham over the past year as Nottinghamshire completed a...
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/ 9 years agoJamie Overton: ‘I’m altering my action to stop stress fractures’
By Paul Eddison STRESS fractures are an all-too common hindrance for fast bowlers so Somerset’s Jamie Overton is going to spend...
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/ 9 years agoDuckett: England selectors haven’t been in touch with me
(Photo: Getty Images) By Paul Eddison ENGLAND have churned through so many top-order batsmen this summer that it’s easy to forget...
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County Reviews
/ 9 years agoProlific Browne nears 1,000 runs for the third consecutive season for Essex
(Photo: Getty Images) By Paul Hiscock Ironically, in a match that featured no batting bonus points it was an opener who...
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/ 9 years agoIf ever Trott was ready to be skipper, it’s now for Warwickshire
By Paul Nixon The County Championship resumed this week with the final five rounds of matches to be played, but the...
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/ 9 years agoOttis Gibson held the golden key to unlock Stuart Broad into a world-beating Test bowler
...Broad’s early career when, half-way through the 2009 Ashes series, he was facing calls for his head. Thanks to Paul Collingwood’s...
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/ 9 years agoNixon column: Ashwin’s arrival shows our game still has value
(Photo: Getty Images) By Paul Nixon The County Championship receives a lot of unfair criticism from the outside, but it’s clear...
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/ 9 years agoNixon column: Sunshine State is ideal venue for CPL bow
By Paul Nixon A week into my Caribbean adventure and, while I’m majorly struggling with jet-lag this time round, it’s as...
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/ 9 years agoEngland Women coach Robinson planning next steps for World Cup victors
(Photo by Harry Trump-IDI/IDI via Getty Images) By Paul Eddison MARK Robinson achieved the pinnacle of the sport when he led...
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/ 9 years agoHayter column: Alastair Cook is still the rock upon which England must build
...St Paul’s choirboy has always thrived on most is adversity. In the event, the day had started breezily enough for him...
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/ 9 years agoKeshav Maharaj’s control key to series, says Adams
By Richard Edwards Paul Adams was once described by Mike Gatting as having an action which resembled “a frog in a...
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/ 9 years agoNixon column: England must learn when to soak up pressure
(Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images) By Paul Nixon While the second Test couldn’t have gone much worse for England, and the...
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/ 9 years agoFormer Eagle Prichard backs Essex to keep up pressure on title rivals
By Richard Edwards Paul Prichard is backing Essex to continue their title tilt – despite the likely absence of Alastair Cook...
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/ 9 years agoNixon column: Something has to be done to help protect bowlers too
(Photo: Getty Images) By Paul Nixon Everyone in cricket was shocked by the injury Luke Fletcher suffered almost a fortnight ago...
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County Reviews
/ 9 years agoTrott gets Bears ticking but Middlesex come out on top in nail-biter
(Photo: Getty Images) By Paul Bolton Jonathan Trott relished the extra responsibilities of captaincy by leading from the front in his...
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