12 h. ago Aussie cricket legend lifts the lid on how Sir Ian Botham was SAVED after he fell into crocodile

Australian cricket legend Merv Hughes has opened up on how Sir Ian Botham was saved after falling into crocodile-infested waters during a fishing trip to the Northern Territory.

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4 d. ago The Spin | Rehan Ahmed’s technicolour technique deserves a show on Ashes stage

All-rounder is back on form and would be an exciting addition to England’s squad, says Leicestershire’s director of cricketAs the Hundred fires into primary-coloured summer action, all free T-shirts and AI fan photos, the Spin has been putting her feet up, coffee in one hand, notebook in the other, chewing over the Championship season to date.If the notebook has proved a bitter disappointment, scribbled with long-forgotten three for 67s, the ruminations have been fun. It’s been a season of surprises – Leicestershire! Lancashire! – and memorable moments, from Tom Banton’s 371 in the very first game to Ian Botham’s thunder and fury over Somerset’s field-of-onions pitch for the game against Durham. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Ricky Ponting reveals why he was 'worried' about Aussie cricket icon Shane Warne before the 2005 Ashes series

Ricky Ponting has revealed he was left feeling 'worried' about whether Australian cricket legend Shane Warne would be 'able to play' on the eve of the 2005 Ashes series.

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1 week ago I changed my mind on banning the bomb, but the threat of nuclear war is growing – and so is complacency | Polly Toynbee

Though the weapons I campaigned against remain terrifying, I doubt we can disarm unilaterally. That should be the stuff of vital debate: right now, it isn’t This week marks 80 years since the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as the few remaining witnesses tell of incinerated, melted and obliterated families. Soon there will be none left to remember. Survivors’ graphic accounts of “the noiseless flash” were captured by John Hersey in his book Hiroshima, read by my generation with shock and fear. Nevil Shute’s On the Beach taught us every gut-wrenching detail of the radiation sickness I fully expected to die of. Civil defence leaflets told families how to hide under the stairs with a radio and torch.I grew up expecting early death by nuclear war. My father was a 1957 founder of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament who didn’t expect us to survive inevitable nuclear holocaust. He carried a large bottle of suicide pills, enough to kill us all when the bomb fell, to save us from slowly ...

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2 w. ago Ruben Amorim lifts lid on 'no bull****' Sir Jim Ratcliffe relationship at Man Utd

Ruben Amorim was the first Manchester United boss to be appointed by Sir Jim Ratcliffe following his arrival at Old Trafford and the Portuguese coach has now revealed how often they talk

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4 w. ago Scheffler is compared to Tiger Woods after a win that rarely seemed in doubt | Sean Ingle

A four-shot margin of victory at the Open led Xander Schauffele to say the world No 1 is ‘taking the throne of dominance’ that American legend once hadNo sooner had the Claret Jug been lifted high above Scottie Scheffler’s head than the scramble for superlatives began. With every word and exaltation there was also a sense that golf’s Overton window had shifted, with his peers daring to voice opinions previously beyond the pale.It was Xander Schauffele who perhaps said it best, as Scheffler was slow‑walking up the 18th, as if trying to savour every second of a first Open Championship victory. Continue reading...

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