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Middlesex fined £50,000 and given suspended points deductions by ECB for breaching financial regulations | Cricket News
Middlesex have been fined £50,000 and handed suspended points deductions for breaching financial regulations. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) will cut payments to the London club by £150,000, with 100,000 of that suspended until October 2025. The points deductions – equivalent to one win each in the LV= County Championship, Metro Bank One-Day…
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England bowler Reece Topley apprehensive ahead of World Cup after last year’s injury heartache | Cricket News
Reece Topley admits he has some trepidation ahead of the 50-over World Cup after injury robbed him of playing in last year’s T20 triumph in Australia. Seamer Topley was in England’s squad for the 2022 T20 World Cup only to damage ankle ligaments after a freak trip over a boundary cushion in a warm-up game…
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Anya Shrubsole says she could only have dreamed of the career she has had after retiring from cricket
Anya Shrubsole says she got the ending she wanted and a career she could only have dreamed of after captaining Southern Brave to the Hundred title in her final game as a professional cricketer. Brave lost to Oval Invincibles in the first two Hundred finals but defeated Northern Superchargers by 34 runs at Lord’s on…
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Door not closed on Tammy Beaumont playing T20 cricket for England, says head coach Jon Lewis
Jon Lewis insists the “door is definitely not shut” on Tammy Beaumont playing T20 cricket for England again she was left out of the squad despite scoring a century in The Hundred. Beaumont has been stranded on 99 T20 international appearances since January 2022 with her 118 from 61 balls for Welsh Fire against Trent…
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Former Scotland bowler Majid Haq allegedly racially abused while umpiring at Greenock Cricket Club
Former Scotland off-spinner Majid Haq was allegedly racially abused while he was umpiring a match at Greenock Cricket Club on Saturday, according to the lawyer representing the ex-player. Aamer Anwar appears for Haq and another former international Qasim Sheikh, with the pair last year claiming Cricket Scotland was “institutionally racist” as well as being “unfit…
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Alex Hales: England batter announces retirement from international cricket with immediate effect
England batter Alex Hales has announced his retirement from international cricket with immediate effect. Hales’ three-year England exile for failing a recreational drugs test came to an end last year when he was added to his country’s T20 World Cup squad as a replacement for the injured Jonny Bairstow. The 34-year-old went on to score…
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The Ashes: Ben Stokes believes thrilling series is what Test cricket needed as England clinch draw against Australia
England’s pulsating Ashes series against Australia can boost Test cricket amid question marks over the red-ball format in recent years, believes skipper Ben Stokes. Stuart Broad claimed the decisive wicket on his final day before retiring as England beat Australia to win the fifth Test, draw the series and deny the visitors a first series…
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Sky Cricket pundits: Ashes draw ‘tip of the iceberg’ as England’s entertainers ‘grow up’ to add winning edge
After England slipped 2-0 down in The Ashes, questions were asked of their sloppy fielding and “reckless” batting. But Ben Stokes’ side rallied to draw the series 2-2 and may very well have won it had it not poured with rain during the final two days of the fourth Test at Emirates Old Trafford. The…
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Stuart Broad retires: Sky Sports Cricket pundits hail England ‘great’ and ‘ultimate Ashes warrior’
After England bowler Stuart Broad announced he will retire from cricket after the final Test against Australia, Sky Sports pundits Nasser Hussain, Michael Atherton, Ricky Ponting and Mark Butcher hailed a ‘true great” and “ultimate Ashes warrior”… Michael Atherton – ‘An undeniably great cricketer’ “Great is an overused word sometimes but he is an undeniably…
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The Ashes: Bazball or traditional cricket? How will England play in second innings of fifth Test?
Bazball or more circumspect cricket? That was the question for Sky Sports’ Ricky Ponting as he looked ahead to how England may play in their second innings of the fifth and final Ashes Test at The Kia Oval. Ben Stokes’ hosts will begin their second dig trailing Australia by 12 runs after the tourists made…
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