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Joe Root wants to carry on as captain despite Ashes defeat
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Sunday, 08 September 2019 13:04
Joe Root has insisted he "definitely" wants to carry on as captain of England despite failing to reclaim the Ashes.Australia's victory at Old Trafford gave them an unassailable 2-1 lead in the series, meaning Root has led two unsuccessful attempts to win the urn. It was also Australia's first successful Ashes campaign in England since 2001. But while Archie MacLaren,…
Joe Root 'definitely' wants to carry on as England captain
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Sunday, 08 September 2019 13:14
Having put on a brave face in the aftermath of Headingley, Australia's captain, Tim Paine, admitted in the afterglow of retaining the Ashes in England for the first time in 18 years that the trauma of that defeat had been enough to break a sporting team.What's more, he reckoned that the wider trials and tribulations of Australian cricket over the…
Fifties from Ramdin, Simmons hand Knight Riders a hat-trick of wins
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Sunday, 08 September 2019 13:31
Trinbago Knight Riders 168 for 3 (Simmons 63, Ramdin 50, Pollard 26*) beat St Lucia Zouks 167 for 5 (Campbell 43, Cornwall 33, Neesham 2-33) by seven wicketsTrinbago Knight Riders cruised to their third straight win in CPL 2019, as their experienced quartet of Lendl Simmons, Denesh Ramdin, Sunil Narine and the captain Kieron Pollard set up a comfortable seven-wicket…
Jalaj Saxena called up to India A as cover for K Gowtham
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Sunday, 08 September 2019 09:23
Kerala allrounder Jalaj Saxena has been added to the India A squad for the first four-day match against South Africa A, starting on Monday in Thiruvananthapuram.Saxena comes in as a near like-for-like cover for another bowling allrounder K Gowtham, who is unwell and being monitored by the medical staff. Gowtham had been in excellent bowling form, finishing as the third-highest…
We changed the batting order because of the big chase - Shakib
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Sunday, 08 September 2019 10:23
As one Bangladesh wicket fell after another on Sunday, the Afghanistan players could scent a historic win with every passing moment. At the end of the fourth day's play, they found themselves just four wickets away from a famous victory in Chattogram.Amid all that jubilation and excitement, however, there was one puzzling question on wicketkeeper Afsar Zazai's mind. Where was…
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