15 h. ago James Anderson to miss county season start but could play for three more years

The 42-year-old’s England career ended last summer having claimed a record-breaking 704 wickets.

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36 h. ago Ben Stokes set to miss opening rounds of County Championship but on track in recovery

The England Test captain has been recuperating after undergoing hamstring injury

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37 h. ago Ben Stokes will ‘do whatever it takes’ to be fit for summer, says Durham boss

Ryan Campbell says Stokes ‘sets the bar, wherever he is’.

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2 w. ago England paceman Mark Wood set to miss India series after latest injury setback

The Durham player will miss a large part of the English season after undergoing knee surgery

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2 w. ago Strictly Come Dancing's Amy Dowden admits 'I was deluded' in health admission

Amy Dowden has confessed she was not fit enough to take part in Strictly 2024

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3 w. ago Harry Brook faces IPL ban after withdrawing from Delhi Capitals deal

It is the second consecutive season Brook has pulled out of the competition.

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3 w. ago Ben Stokes is cricket’s last action hero – the ODI captaincy can be his Viking funeral | Barney Ronay

Instincts are to protect England’s Test captain, but he’s the functioning brain of Bazball. It’s hard to think of anyone better to lead the ODI teamThis column is about the rise of high-end supermarket cheddar cheese that has delicious and addictive crunchy crystals in it. What are these exactly? And is everything just basically crisps now? This column is about the MCC being needlessly given tens of millions of pounds because the England and Wales Cricket Board sold a hat that isn’t really a hat, just the promise of a brightly coloured future-hat.This column is about cricket umpires being reduced progressively to a theatre of facial expressions, from the brave, wounded “you’re on screen, please reverse your decision”, to the screw-you triumphalism of the confirmatory finger to an empty set of stumps. Michael Caine once said that while doing a closeup you should always stare at a fixed point, always into one eye not both eyes of your scene partner. Do we need to train Joel Wilson in ...

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3 w. ago Rob Key explains why England captaincy could ‘bring out the best’ in Harry Brook

England have said that ‘nothing is off the table’ when it comes to a replacement for Jos Buttler, with no timeline for an appointment set

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3 w. ago Ben Stokes in frame for England ODI captaincy and Harry Brook for T20 role

England set for white-ball reset after Buttler resignationKey says it would be ‘stupid’ not to consider StokesRob Key could offer Ben Stokes the chance to take on the captaincy of England’s one-day team – and potentially put Harry Brook in charge of the T20 side – after admitting it would be “stupid” not to consider his Test talisman for an expanded role.Speaking at Lord’s on Thursday, less than a week after England completed their winless Champions Trophy campaign, the director of men’s cricket held his hands up to “a lot of errors”. There was also an admission his players lacked the competitiveness that Stokes brings. Continue reading...

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