3 h. ago England star Harry Brook hit by bouncer during drunken night out says he's 'deeply sorry'

England cricket star Harry Brook has apologised after being fined £30,000 by the ECB following a drunken night out on the eve of The Ashes

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4 h. ago Harry Brook apologises after drunk cricket star hit by nightclub bouncer and fined

England's Test vice-captain Harry Brook has released a statement after it emerged that he played the Ashes on a final warning from the ECB following a drunken incident with a bouncer

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4 h. ago Revealed: England cricket star Harry Brook clashed with nightclub bouncer hours before captaining team in Ashes warm

LAWRENCE BOOTH IN SYDNEY: Harry Brook was involved in an altercation with a nightclub bouncer during England's recent tour of New Zealand, in their latest off-the-field misdemeanour.

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3 d. ago Joe Root’s 160 puts England in charge before Travis Head hits back for Australia

Root was a class above his team-mates as he converted his overnight 72 into an outstanding 160.

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4 d. ago Harry Brook pleased to survive bouncer battle as England start well in Sydney

Root looked serene throughout his knock of 72 not out while Brook was involved in a livelier contest on his way to 78no from 92 balls

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4 d. ago Joe Root and Harry Brook tease England with a glimpse of what these Ashes could have been

Perhaps it was not a coincidence that England’s best day of the series came on a rain-reduced afternoon where they were denied the time to stuff it up - but for one afternoon, one of cricket’s greatest pleasures occurred

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4 d. ago Root and Brook star for England before storm halts Ashes charge against Australia

Fifth Test, day one: England 211-3 before bad light stops playUndefeated duo put on tourists’ best partnership of seriesAs the rain fell on the Sydney Cricket Ground, cutting the opening day of this fifth Ashes Test into exactly half the number of allotted overs, you could practically hear the champagne corks being popped in the Cricket Australia offices. Perhaps the groundsman’s hut also.The huge losses incurred by the two-dayers in Perth and Melbourne put CA and the SCG on red alert as regards a repeat. Unless something absurd were to happen on the second day – England had reached 211 for three when play was eventually abandoned at 5pm on the first – this series finale should last a fair bit longer. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Ashes: Joe Root and Harry Brook put England on top before weather ends first day early in Sydney

Root and Brook take England to 211-3 as tourists make strong start to fifth Test

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4 d. ago Joe Root and Harry Brook shine for England before storm halts Ashes charge against Australia

Fifth Test, day one: England 211-3 in 45 overs before bad light stops playUndefeated duo put together tourists’ best partnership of series As the rain fell on the Sydney Cricket Ground, cutting the opening day of this fifth Ashes Test into exactly half the number of allotted overs, you could practically hear the champagne corks being popped in the Cricket Australia offices. Perhaps the groundsman’s hut also.The huge losses incurred by the two-dayers in Perth and Melbourne put CA and the SCG on red alert as regards a repeat. Unless something absurd were to happen on the second day – England had reached 211 for three when play was eventually abandoned at 5pm on the first – this series finale should last a fair bit longer. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago England on top as weather brings early end to first day of Sydney Test

Bad light and rain forced an early end to proceedings just before the tea break.

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4 d. ago Joe Root and Harry Brook combine to lift England to 211 for three

Root was looking calm and controlled on 72 not out, with Brook a more hyperactive presence as he rushed to 78no.

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4 d. ago Joe Root and Harry Brook rebuild England’s position after slow start in Sydney

Ben Duckett, Jacob Bethell and Zak Crawley all fell quickly to make it 57 for three inside 13 overs.

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8 d. ago Cameron Green remains Australia’s golden child but the blessing has become a curse | | Brendan Foster

Allrounder has shown enough glimpses to suggest he is the complete package but has again failed to impose himself on a series during the AshesBazball might be dead, or at least on its last legs, but before its demise it appears to have bewitched cricketing prodigy Cameron Green with its high-risk, at times mindless aggression.Some of the young allrounder’s premeditated shots during the Ashes have made England wunderkind Harry Brook look like their unpretentious former opener, Geoff Boycott. Continue reading...

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1 week ago England attack’s holiday fling might be the start of something more serious | Barney Ronay

If Josh Tongue and Brydon Carse can repeat their MCG displays, this may be more than a marriage of convenienceWhat does it mean? How should we feel? What are the roots that clutch? What branches grow out of this stony rubbish? For most of its combined 142 overs, watching England’s fourth Test victory in Melbourne felt like drifting in and out of a drunken sleep while trying and failing to follow the plot of a particularly gruelling action movie.Why is this car chase happening? Why is The Rock defusing a torpedo inside a collapsing Maya temple? Why are they running to the top of the nearest generic tall building for this final, final, final showdown? Wait. Will Jacks is playing? Continue reading...

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1 week ago Met Office map shows where snow could fall in England on New Year's Day

The new year could bring a snowy start for some parts of England

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1 week ago The Harry Brook innings that showed England’s muddled minds amid Ashes carnage

Brook played true to England’s values on a day where 20 wickets tumbled — would they have been better served sticking to their positive approach throughout the tour?

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1 week ago England’s Ashes chaos continues as 20 wickets tumble in farcical start to Boxing Day Test

Australia secured a first-innings lead despite being bowled out for 152 at the MCG

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1 week ago Ashes LIVE: Nightmare start for England in response to Australia's 152 as 20 wickets tumble on day one of the Boxing Day Test

The hosts are trying to roll to a 4-0 lead in the series without skipper Pat Cummins and spin king Nathan Lyon.

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1 week ago Ashes LIVE: Nightmare start for England in response to Australia's 152 as wickets tumble in Boxing Day Test

The hosts are trying to roll to a 4-0 lead in the series without skipper Pat Cummins and spin king Nathan Lyon.

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2 w. ago Rob Key promises to investigate England’s drinking habits after mid

Reports said the team’s trip to the resort of Noosa between the second and third Tests resembled a ‘stag do’.

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