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Sam Curran is going to make a lot of money at next year’s IPL auction
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Moeen Ali: “I’ve been a little bit disappointed by the food in Lahore. Karachi was really nice”
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Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow's partnership is worth 179 in exactly 20 overs - which is more than England have made four of the last five times they've batted first in a T20 international
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Deafening noise in Karachi for Babar Azam's hundred and his winning boundary. Some stunning shots in an unbroken 203-run opening partnership with Mohammad Rizwan to square the series
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✅🇵🇰 Touring Pakistan has been a real privilege. Thanks to everyone who made it an unforgettable experience
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Rachin Ravindra watched the final of the 2019 World Cup in a bar in Bangalore, aged 19. Four years later, he has a 82-ball century in the opening game of the 2023 World Cup
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We may never see another T20 bowler quite like Jasprit Bumrah. Rightly named player of the tournament after spearheading India's phenomenal attack to the title
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England arrive in Karachi for their first tour since 2005. Everyone made it past the Movenpick swimming pool (made famous by Alex Carey) without slipping in
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Phil Salt has scored more runs for England at Gaddafi Stadium tonight than he did in seven games for Lahore Qalandars here in PSL 2022 🧂
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ICC rankings still don’t consider Jos Buttler - average 48, strike rate 150 over the last three years - to be one of the best dozen T20I batters in the world. Go figure
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Jasprit Bumrah becomes the first India player to take a wicket in the men's T20 World Cup since Virat Kohli
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England were docked 8 points for a slow over-rate and gained 4 for clinging on at the SCG - so would be better-placed in the World Test Championship if they'd forfeited all five Tests and stayed home
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Liam Livingstone becomes the highest-paid Englishman of the IPL 2022 auction after a five-way bidding war
CSK, KKR, Gujarat, Punjab and SRH all in for him. Ends up at Punjab for Rs 11.5 crore (£1.125m)
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Strong argument presented by Broad to convince Stokes to review:
"It's out"
"It's out"
"It's out"
"It's out"
"It's out"
"It's out"
"It's out"
"It's out"
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Dinesh Karthik and Stuart Broad announced as part of the commentary team for Sky's coverage of England vs India ODIs and T20Is
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Haris Rauf has been bowling on a different level to the rest of Pakistan's attack in this series. Ability to bowl a genuine offcutter at 86mph/139kph is ridiculous
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Asif Ali faces three balls in the innings and hits two of them for six. Fair to say the crowd in Karachi aren't entirely sold on Pakistan's method when setting a total
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England players with IPL 100s:
Kevin Pietersen
Ben Stokes (x2)
Jonny Bairstow
Jos Buttler (x5)
Harry Brook
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Delhi Capitals' last two bowling innings:
vs Gujarat Titans - 89/10 (17.3 overs)
vs Sunrisers Hyderabad - 89/0 (4.1 overs)
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Hard to imagine an RCB team of old winning a knockout match with neither Kohli nor an overseas batter contributing
Credit to Mike Hesson & his team for prioritising a strong attack and excellent scouting of domestic players - and to Rajat Patidar for an all-time great IPL knock
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Incredible turnaround by RCB: qualification from this position must be among the craziest achievements in IPL history
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Incredible atmosphere in Lahore as Pakistan close out another tight win and take a 3-2 lead. This series keeps on giving
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Tim David has faced 98 balls at Wankhede Stadium in the IPL, and has hit 21 of them for six
The King of Marine Drive
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Jos Buttler: “We’re all very excited to be here. It’s great to be back as an England cricket team after a long time”
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Travis Head: centuries against India in a World Test Championship final and a World Cup final, five months apart. Incredible achievement
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Buttler was shouting “two more until Shami” when India were four down yesterday - and it ended up being three more, after his demotion
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35-ball fifty from 20-year-old Will Smeed on PSL
The depth of talent in England’s white-ball batting is insane
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Seismic moment in T20 history: R Ashwin becomes the first batter retired out in the IPL
Had come in at No. 6 to add stability after a collapse. Runs off to give Rajasthan's finisher Riyan Parag 10 balls at the death
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Huge cheers for Mohammed Shami as he walks in to bat in Dubai
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“I will only play for RCB until my retirement“ says Kohli as he steps down from the captaincy. Has he just retained himself?
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Trent Boult, employed by Mumbai Indians for two months of the year to play for MI Emirates and MI New York, has three wickets in four balls against… Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede
Cricket is in a strange spot
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"RCB, RCB" chants from the crowd at the Chinnaswamy. England have done their best impression of them
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Rashid Khan's ubiquity in T20 leagues means we forget how much he has been through. Lost both parents in the last three years, looked frazzled tonight with everything going on back home - and yet still turned in a clutch, match-winning performance. A hero
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Multan may have lost the PSL final but winning 10/12 games in a league with a draft system (designed to ensure competitive balance) is still a great achievement, especially as defending champs
Would love to see some T20 leagues implementing multi-game finals series in future
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Just twigged: Fleming has picked Pujara so that he can't tune up for the WTC final against NZ with a stint in county cricket. 4D chess
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Just imagine walking out to bat down this tunnel with a full house in for the IPL/T20WC final. Incredible
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No wonder India are piling on the runs. They're playing Indore cricket
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18 months since England were set 273 to win off 75 overs against New Zealand at Lord's and shook hands at 170 for 3 off 70
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Pakistan an incredibly likeable team right now, fun to watch and seem like a great bunch of guys
And how good for Namibia - Rashid Khan passed on some advice to Loftie-Eaton after their game vs Afg and very cool to see both squads interact like this
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With every passing game at this World Cup, Afghanistan getting thrashed by Bangladesh in Dharamshala becomes harder to fathom
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RCB spend over a quarter of their purse on Smriti Mandhana in the first lot of the
#WPLAuction
, INR 3.4 crore from a budget of 12 crore - the equivalent of a men's franchise spending 25.5 crore on a player
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KKR shelling out Rs 12.25 crore on Shreyas Iyer must be bad news for Eoin Morgan's hopes of an IPL contract: Iyer likely to captain and KKR's remaining budget has already taken a major hit
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Outrageous 49-ball hundred from Jason Roy in his first game of the PSL season despite quarantine and jetlag
Making a target of 205 look like small fry against an attack including Shaheen Afridi, Rashid Khan and Haris Rauf
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Sam Curran at the death in this
#T20WorldCup
vs🇦🇫 : 10 balls, 2 runs, 4 wickets
vs☘️: 6 balls, 6 runs, 2 wickets
vs🇳🇿: 12 balls, 14 runs, 1 wicket
vs 🇱🇰: 12 balls, 10 runs, 0 wickets
Overall: 40 balls, 32 runs conceded, 7 wickets
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Josh Little makes his IPL debut for defending champions Gujarat Titans tonight in front of ~100,000 people in Ahmedabad
He becomes the first active Ireland international to play in the IPL
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Asif Ali lost his 2-year-old daughter in 2019, and his long-term mentor Dean Jones last year. If anyone deserved that…
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Here’s the Dharamsala outfield ahead of England vs Bangladesh tomorrow – rated “average” by the officials on Saturday
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Jasprit Bumrah in a league of his own: 78mph offbreak crashes into Phil Salt's leg stump and puts England in a world of trouble chasing 172
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Not sure how anyone is meant to play the ball that Kuldeep Yadav just bowled to Jos Buttler. Gasps from the Lucknow crowd as it's replayed on the big screen
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Pakistan vs England gets the finale everyone wanted: a Sunday-night decider in front of a full house in Lahore
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The retiring Eoin Morgan’s contribution to English cricket nicely summed up by Rob Key: “It will be wrong to think Eoin’s legacy was just winning the World Cup in 2019; it is far greater than that”
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Just roll that through for me? Flat line, flat line, flat line
It was definitely not Cristiano Ronaldo’s goal, say adidas, who have used the 500Hz IMU sensor inside the match ball to show there was no contact. Images attached
@MailSport
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Daren Sammy: "As my mother always said, you've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything"
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England went to India in March with a full-strength T20 team and Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Liam Livingstone and Tymal Mills played 0 games between them
Their combined figures today: 14-0-72-8
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James Anderson (Test debut: June 2003) left out for England's West Indies tour by a selection panel of Paul Collingwood (Dec '03), Andrew Strauss (May '04) and James Taylor (Aug' 12)
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26 years later… England’s 1996 World Cup squad’s gift is still on display at Carpet Palace in Lahore
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Most runs in Ashes 2023
362 (405 balls) - Zak Crawley
359 (927 balls) - Usman Khawaja
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Two best T20I sides in the world, series decider, Saturday night at the world's biggest cricket stadium. Should be an incredible spectacle - just missing a crowd (and Bumrah)
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Aaron Finch to Richard Illingworth over stump mic: "Happy to take any ideas if you know how to hit that"
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Is Shubman Gill really going to go through the whole of his 130-Test career without a bat deal?
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England have taken 10 wickets in 15 out of 15 Test innings since Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes took over
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Not sure if it was picked up on TV but Dahani was so sure Khushdil would take that catch he set off on his usual celebration, thumping his chest and all
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Great nugget from Tymal Mills on his BBC podcast with Mark Wood: Alex Hales played golf on Thursday morning, shot his best-ever round, then headed down to Adelaide Oval and hit 86* in a World Cup semi-final
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Hardik Pandya has touched 90mph/145kph and found extra bounce from back of a length. He's a cheat code for India if he's fit and firing: a genuine allrounder, their fastest bowler while batting at No. 5
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What a night for Harry Brook
- 100 not out off 55 balls
- Subbed off at half-time
- Feet up in the dugout next to Brian Lara
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You’d never see cricketers warming up by playing football, would you?
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4 hundreds for Buttler in his last 23 T20 innings
In each of them he has played out at least one bowler and attacked the rest:
Rashid Khan (vs SRH)
Hasaranga and Theekshana (vs SL)
Bumrah (vs MI)
Narine (vs KKR)
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Nicholas Pooran's T10 career:
17 innings
584 runs
232 balls
53.09 average
251.72 strike rate
38x4
60x6
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Fitting for Virat Kohli to bring up his record 50th ODI hundred by charging back for a second run: testament to his fitness and professionalism at 35
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Yashasvi Jaiswal broke one of the IPL’s longest-held records on Sunday, beating Paul Valthaty’s highest score by an uncapped Indian batter
I remember watching Valthaty in 2011 but had no idea what happened next, so tracked him down to find out
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Stunning innings by Virat Kohli: 15 off 24 turns into 82 off 53 as India win one of the all-time great T20s in front of 90k at the MCG
More drama in the final over than in most entire days of cricket
#T20WorldCup
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A year and eight days since New Zealand set England 273 to win in 75 overs and the teams shook hands after 70 at 170 for 3
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Kohli: 77* off 46
Not Kohli: 70 off 74 (plus 9 extras)
Batting on a different pitch to everyone else
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Rehan Ahmed up for grabs at INR 40 lakh (£40k approx) in Friday's IPL auction👀
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Remember when England left Issy Wong out of their T20 World Cup squad? 🤪
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Fully prepared for this to age horribly:
1 SRH
2 MI
3 DC
4 KKR
5 RR
6 RCB
7 CSK
8 PK
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Pat Cummins 🤝 Indigestion sufferers
Gets Burns straight after lunch
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MS Dhoni and Rohit Sharma: still front and centre, still the biggest sells in town
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This time last year, Jos Buttler had never scored a T20 hundred. Now, he’s scored 5 in his last 24 innings - and 4 in his last 8 IPL innings
A remarkable player making the most of his incredible talents - undoubtedly the best T20 batter in the world at the moment
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Over 430 runs in the match and Mohammad Hasnain has returned 4-0-28-1. Unbelievable effort from a 21-year-old tearaway
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Dinesh Karthik speaking a lot of sense throughout the series on Sky. Love the sound of the team he just suggested, with Stokes shifted up to No. 3 and Billings sliding into the middle order as a finisher
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I know everyone's fed up of Buttler's numbers opening the batting in T20s for England but averaging 60.50 and striking at 149.17 is just insane
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Those two shots by Kohli off Wood are absolutely world-class. Batting perfection
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Benny Howell gets his first IPL deal!
Rs 40 lakh (£40k approx) to Punjab Kings - the third time a team with Dan Weston as analyst has recruited him recently, after Birmingham Phoenix and Bangla Tigers
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2022 and batters are still turning down runs off the last ball of a T20 innings to protect their average
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Cricket continues to eat itself: Mohammad Amir is playing his third short-form match since Friday, for a third different team
Friday: Derbyshire vs Durham (Blast)
Tuesday: Oval vs Birmingham (Hundred)
Thursday: Vancouver vs Toronto (GT20)
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Moeen's 63 is the first T20I half-century by an England men's captain since... Jos Buttler's against Pakistan at Headingley last summer
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Sri Lanka have looked ten times better in this T20 World Cup than they did four months ago in England - remarkable improvement with a very similar group of players
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