Stephan Shemilt
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Chief cricket reporter for BBC Sport.
Joined February 2011
If Dale Steyn had bowled as many deliveries in Test cricket as James Anderson (35,490) with his own strike-rate (42.30), Steyn would have 839 wickets.
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Admittedly it's niche, but I wonder if that Bairstow knock is the worst two-ball innings in the history of Test cricket.
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Jack Leach is re-enacting THAT single off Pat Cummins.
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England have lost 13 wickets for 66 runs across 10,000 miles in the past seven days.
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England's Covid outbreak lasted marginally longer than one of their opening partnerships.
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Joe Root has gone past 1,000 Test runs for the year. England's next highest is Dom Sibley on 344.
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Joe Root has scored more runs in this series than any other England batsman has managed in all of 2021.
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You go to work all week, want a game of cricket on a Saturday, then this. .
Jofra Archer Playing Club Cricket Today in Barbados 😳🔥 . He finished with 3-16 and 54* (20)
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Jonny Bairstow has just gone over to the travelling fans and thrown some of his gear into the crowd. Joe Root picked out a young fan and gave him his match award. Nice stuff.
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For those keeping score, the ECB is currently without a chairman, permanent director of men's cricket and a men's head coach.
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Green tinge in Wellington. Will probably play like a road.
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Regularly mentioned that Moeen has batted everywhere from one to nine in Tests. Stokes has batted everywhere from opening (one, not two) all the way down to 11.
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England at the point of no return. Not just this World Cup, but the whole white-ball set-up.
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India at the Gabba, Kyle Mayers, England in Chennai, anything that New Zealand do, teams returning to Pakistan. Strong time for Test cricket.
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The groundsman has peeled back the covers for McCullum, Key and (England Lions coach) Dinesh Karthik to take a look at the Hyderabad pitch. To my (very untrained) eye, that end is very bare.
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The 1207 runs in the SA-England series is the most for a three-match series in the history of T20 internationals.
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Mark Wood v Paul Collingwood in the North East Premier League Division One this Saturday. Wood is returning to play for his boyhood club Ashington. The England fast bowler and assistant coach will have to take their own tea and get changed outside.
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Shades of 05 as Joe Root runs after Hardik Pandya to shakes hands.
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I'm sure there are loads of others, a few of them before my time, but I'm struggling to think of an occasion when a batter so badly incapacitated has made such a big impact on a game.
OUT: Banton is bowled by Shakib for a brilliant 46. That was an incredible ninth wicket partnership, Craig Overton finishes 49* 👏. Surrey require 221, Somerset require ten wickets!. #SURvSOM.#WeAreSomerset
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Chris Woakes having to bowl off-breaks in light where I'm genuinely having to squint is the most village thing I have ever seen in Test cricket.
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Can't think of a tournament, in any sport, that has produced as much drama as the Women's World Cup.
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Rocky Flintoff, 16-year-old son of Andrew, has just reached 50 for Lancs 2nd XI against Durham at Old Trafford. 18-year-old Corey Flintoff is also in the Lancs team.
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England have not won without either Anderson or Broad playing since fourth Test v Windies in June 2007. Vaughan was captain and Broad yet to debut. This is England's 197th Test since then, ninth without either of Branderson, five of which have come since the Gabba last year.
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At 16 years and 102 days, Rocky Flintoff is the youngest man (boy?) to make a Test century for England Under 19s. Ian Bell made a century aged 16 years and 313 days v New Zealand in 1998-99. Flintoff the 10th youngest man from anywhere to make an U19s Test ton.
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Balls faced in first-class cricket by England’s top seven since the second Test v New Zealand…. Burns: 189.Sibley: 271.Crawley: 6.Root: 0.Bairstow: 0.Lawrence: 0.Buttler: 0.
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According to Cricviz, Gus Atkinson's first over is the second-fastest by an England bowler on Test debut in the ball-tracking era. Finn 88.73mph.Atkinson 87.86.Wood 87.78.Stone 87.00.Archer 86.65.Ball 86.64.Shahzad 85.80.Jordan 85.30.
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Ollie Pope made his Test debut at number four despite never having batted there for Surrey. Now he could be relaunching his career at number three despite never having batted there for Surrey. Tough gig.
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Cricket ground opposite the Multan hotel, where the pitch doubles as a helipad. A different approach to taking wickets on flat tracks.
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Jimmy Anderson presented with a special shirt to mark his England record 162nd cap.
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Soft dismissal, but Duckett takes his average as an opener to 53.58. Only four openers (min 10 matches) have a better average for England - Sutcliffe, Hutton, Hobbs, Amiss.
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Ben Foakes is the first England wicketkeeper since Alan Knott in 1968 to take three stumpings in a Test. No England keeper has ever taken four.
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Superb from Jimmy Anderson:. "The minute I got out there Stuart Broad was telling me what to do - 'get a big stride in, smother the ball, don't let the bounce beat your bat'. I was like 'it's alright mate, I've played before, it's fine'.".
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Could be something, could be nothing, but Ben Foakes currently has the keeping gloves while the rest of the England team - including Jonny Bairstow - go through a fielding drill.
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Jonny Bairstow on Matthew Wade's arrival: "Come on, Leachy, let's have the shit-stirrer.".
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Not many people know that Brian the cat was recently appointed Somerset chairman.
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Joe Root into his second over for Rajasthan, meaning he has bowled more than Ben Stokes in this year's IPL.
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This is West Indies' highest total in England since 1995, when Brian Lara and Carl Hooper made hundreds as part of 692-8 declared at The Oval.
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Not long after England's men benefit from an umpiring mistake and the boundary rule, England's women are done by rain and no reserve day. It's the same now as it was then. The teams know the rules. NZ should have hit more boundaries, England women should have won their group.
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Cricket Australia are due to confirm the Ashes schedule tonight. It will be followed by a joint statement from the Australia bowlers disputing the schedule, saying they had no knowledge of it.
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Is Jaiswal the first man to make two separate hundreds in the same innings?.
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Following the incident that saw a spectator enter the field of play at The Oval today, a man has been arrested on suspicion of assault.
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Two of the five fastest ODI tons against England have been made by players from Associate nations. Kevin O'Brien in 2011 and Calum MacLeod today.
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What a competitor. What a cricketer. What a bowler.
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From @CricViz - England's 108-3 in the morning session is the best by a visiting team batting first on day 1, session 1 in India since Australia managed 131-1 at Dharamsala in March 2017. The average in the past 10 instances is 74-3.
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I'm a Foakes fan, but it's the right call to go with Bairstow. Rejigging the order not a serious option, Brook undroppable and Bairstow had to return. Hardly a novice behind the stumps and more likely to win a Test with the bat. Root, Brook, Stokes, Bairstow is a delicious 4-7.
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Few cricketers are as engaging and entertaining as Jimmy Neesham. 18 months ago he was trying to convince farmers to buy iPads. Now he's getting ready for a World Cup semi-final.
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Jack Leach is the first England spinner to open the bowling in the first innings of a Test (ie England bowling first) since Jack White against Australia at Headingley in 1921.
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Stuart Broad: "Instead of looking ahead to what is coming next year, in the winter, the next Ashes series, actually can we get back to the real basics of what is ahead of us right now. How are we winning this next Test?". Pretty much nails it.
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England are training in Hyderabad. Dan Lawrence arrives later. Shoaib Bashir is still in Abu Dhabi because of a visa issue. He is being assisted by the BCCI and the Indian government.
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The pitch-invading dog at Visakhapatnam, wonderfully described by @Aggerscricket @MichaelVaughan and @AWSStats
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Liam Livingstone, on his comeback from injury, has made 214 not out playing for Cheadle in the North Staffs & South Cheshire League today.
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Does this mean I can mess with the tunes in the New Zealand dressing room?
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We're about three pretty plausible results away from one of the US or Scotland reaching the semis of this World Cup.
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Paul Collingwood's Shotley Bridge defeat Mark Wood's Ashington by six wickets. Ashington 219 all out - Wood made 4 batting at three. Collingwood 26* off 23. Wood 4-0-12-0, the seventh bowler used. Imagine being one of those who can say they faced an England fast bowler.
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The pitch at the Basin Reserve, two days out from the second Test. A green tinge.
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The England squad for the 2027 Ashes as picked on TMS. Some post-meeting dissatisfaction at our ruthlessness and the composition of the pace attack. Brydon Carse very unlucky.
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We're here to listen to Moeen Ali but Edgbaston has been evacuated (presumably some sort of drill). Press conference might be on the street at this rate.
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Shoaib Bashir has been granted a visa. He could be in India by the weekend.
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Ben Stokes bowling in the nets in Ranchi. A few days ago he said he was "not saying yes, not saying no" to bowling in this series.
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Surely one of the greatest first-class matches ever played?. One run short of pulling off the highest first-class chase, final ball of the final day, number 11 Jamie McIlroy out to a stunning catch by wicketkeeper James Bracey, who wasn't even wearing a keeping glove. 592 all out.
A TIE OFF THE FINAL BALL! . @GlamCricket's 592 all out is the biggest ever score in the fourth innings of a County Championship match – and the third highest in history. What a match between them and @Gloscricket. County Championship cricket at its ridiculous best 🤯
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I wouldn't want to be a bin in the Aussie dressing room right now. Justin Langer will be giving it a right kicking.
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The thing I like most about this video is Rory Burns and Ollie Pope having a little cuddle.
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Obviously, the day after we're told there will be some cricket this summer, it starts raining.
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I went to a baby sensory class today (with my son, not just randomly) and all the mums were talking about cricket. I also wrote this on what it's been like to follow England on their World Cup journey.
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Test Championship is great idea, but points system curious. 120 for each series, but points for a win depend on number of games. 60 for a win in two-Test series, 24 in five-match. England could get almost as many (60) for 1-1 draw in Sri Lanka as for winning the Ashes 3-2 (72).
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It's possible to be neither outraged or enthused by The Hundred. The need for it is questionable and the PR at times has been shambolic, but the cricket is likely to be very good and the product pretty slick. Biggest challenge now is to fill the grounds.
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On Stokes, who prepared for one of the all-time great Test innings by eating a "knock-off Nando's and two Yorkie Raisin and Biscuit" 👇
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Since the beginning of 2016, England's away record in Test cricket is worse than all but Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.
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Alastair Cook's search for an opening partner is starting to look as cursed as the Defence against the Dark Arts job at Hogwarts.
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Not a new issue for women's cricket, but given the current attention on Qatar, it is worth noting that homosexuality remains illegal in Barbados and a law criminalising same-sex acts between consenting adults in Antigua was declared unconstitutional in July.
The schedule has been released for England women's tour of West Indies in December. The first match takes place in just 27 days' time. #BBCCricket.
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Ollie Robinson and James Bracey have been presented with their England caps. Two debutants for England at Lord's.
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Haseeb Hameed and Sam Curran in the same England team for the first time. They are fifth and seventh respectively on the list of youngest men to have played Test cricket for England. On debut, Hameed was 19 years and 297 days, Curran 19 years and 363 days.
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Australia delivered one of the great performances, but neither the final nor the World Cup were classics. The challenge is to breathe life into the tournament for 2027. Cricket deserves a World Cup to be enjoyed, not endured.
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I blame England's kit. How are you supposed to bat when you know you're dressed like the opening credits to a late-1980s sports highlights show.
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This is the first time in 15 years that England have bowled first in a Test and James Anderson (when playing) hasn't bowled the first over of the match.
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Exactly 1,000 days between home Test wickets for Jack Leach. The last one was on 15 September 2019.
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I'm taking my spikes to Lord's. I bowl off the wrong foot and from the back of my hand, but I can't be far from a call-up. I guarantee Virat Kohli will have seen nothing like it before.
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At 20 years and 16 days, Josh Hull will become the youngest seamer to play a men's Test for England, after Ben Hollioake and Sam Curran, who were both 19. Could argue he will be the youngest specialist seamer, if you class the others as all-rounders.
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Before India played a County XI on this tour, the last time Rohit Sharma played a first-class game that wasn't a Test was in November 2015. The last time Virat Kohli played a non-Test first-class match was in November 2012, nearly nine years ago.
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Australia's declaration ensures England's run of not taking 20 wickets in away Ashes Tests extends to nine matches. Close to completing two full series.
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For those wondering, this is @AlexHartley93 dressed as a pop star from the 1990s. #bbccricket
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How would this XI of players unavailable to South Africa get on against the current Test side? A bit light on batting, but an incredible attack. Kuhn.Amla.Rossouw.De Villiers.Vilas.Van Zyl.Harmer.Steyn.Morkel.Abbott.Olivier. Philander soon to join them.
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Jos Buttler's World Cup shirt has sold for £65,100, with the money going to the Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospital.
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James Pattinson revealed his affection for Grimsby Town. So Grimsby sent Pattinson his very own mug.
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Joe Root has just switched the bails, summoning the spirit of Stuart Broad. That's where England are at right now.
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Should have played the Ashes in August.
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