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England lost by 4 wickets, with 10 balls remaining.Despite England’s highest total of the series so far, this match was no closer than the previous four, with Australia in rarely-unwavering control of their run chase. The ’high...(
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Sachin Tendulkar scored his 44th one-day hundred yesterday, as India defeated Sri Lanka in the Compaq Cup. This nudged him one century ahead of the entire combined total achieved by the all-time England ODI side chosen by Mike Atherton in T...(
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The Sunday Telegraph today published the first of their exclusive extracts from Andrew Strauss’ new book, Testing Times.Here he describes his feelings ahead of his career-saving innings against New Zealand in Napier last March. He was...(
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Australia won by 7 wickets (with 38 balls remaining). Australia win the series.England freshened up today’s line-up a bit, but not enough, as Australia claimed an unassailable 4-0 lead. In came Denly, Broad and Rashid for Swann and th...(
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Despite Andy Flower reiterating that "central contracts don’t decide selection - performances do," there are signs in yesterday’s central contracts announcement of the direction in which England will head over the coming year. O...(
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Mike Atherton drew the readers of his column in yesterday’s Times into a "fictional selection room", where he discussed the role of each position in the side and named his all-time England ODI line-up. Here it is:TrescothickGooch (c)G...(
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It should come as no surprise that - at 3-0 down - England appear to be heading for defeat in the ODI series against Australia. After all, we won the Ashes.When Test and ODI series have been paired together in recent years, England have an ...(
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Australia won by 6 wickets.Strauss opted to bat first, hoping for a different story. Instead all we got was variations on a theme. England’s is a batting line-up out of form. Strauss - as he has done all summer - has demonstrated flue...(
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Australia won by 39 runs.A theme is developing here; Strauss wins toss, opts to chase, Australia adopt cautious approach and compile a slightly under-par score, England fall short due to lack of big individual total/s.This is not an Austral...(
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Ahead of the second ODI against Australia at Lord’s tomorrow, Strauss has called upon the top order to contribute more runs, and in doing so has highlighted his teams’ main problem across all forms of the game.He said, "If you w...(
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Australia won by 4 runs.The England run chase fell just short - with Ryan Sidebottom needing to hit his first international six off the last ball to win - after Australia posted a patiently constructed 260 for 5.The tourists’ "risk-fr...(
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Indexed September 30, 2009
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England were completing a 4-0 ODI series win against South Africa - now arguably the best side in the world - with only rain in Cardiff preventing a 5-0 whitewash and a leap up to second in the world rankings. Peter Moores’s England w...(
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Indexed September 30, 2009
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A full house at Old Trafford was left bitterly disappointed this evening as the Manchester rain rendered the pitch for the second T20I against Australia unplayable. The downpour had subsided a while before the announcement was made, but the...(
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Indexed September 30, 2009
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Patrick Kidd’s Line and Length blog today highlights one-time England all-rounder Ian Blackwell’s impressive first season at Durham.The stats look good - this season he’s averaged 19 with the ball and 44 with the bat - but...(
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Indexed September 30, 2009
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Rain caused the first T20I against Australia to be abandoned yesterday, just seven balls into the England run chase. Having restricted the Aussies to 145 - one over the par score at Old Trafford this season - England were 4-2 when the heave...(
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