11 h. ago Scott Boland strikes on Australia return as West Indies suffer dramatic collapse

Third Test, day two: Australia 225; West Indies 143 at dinnerFast bowler takes three wickets as hosts lose 61 for 7 at Sabina ParkAustralia’s top order are set to face a tough final examination in the West Indies, after the hosts were bowled out for 143 at dinner on day two of the third Test in Jamaica.Scott Boland justified his call up ahead of Nathan Lyon with three wickets, while Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood claimed two each as Australia took an 82-run lead. Continue reading...

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32 h. ago Pressure mounts on Konstas and Khawaja as Australia collapse in third West Indies Test

Third Test, day one: Australia win toss and make 225; West Indies 16-1Australia openers again fail to fire in day-night Test at Sabina ParkIt was a strange way to start. Out of Australia’s last 146 Test matches before taking the field at Sabina Park in Jamaica on Saturday, off spinner Nathan Lyon had missed seven. Four of those were in 2012 and 2013, left out for other configurations of bowlers. Three were after he blew out his calf during the 2023 Ashes. And that was that.Surprisingly, Kingston became the eighth match that Lyon has missed in his 14 years of Tests, and the fifth when fit, after a series in which he has gone for a few sixes but taken nine wickets at 18. Instead Australia opted to include Scott Boland as the fourth fast bowler for a day-night fixture on a surface that they guessed would suit pace. Continue reading...

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32 h. ago Pressure mounts on Konstas and Khawaja as Australia collapse against West Indies

Third Test, day one: Australia win toss and make 225; West Indies 16-1Australia openers again fail to fire in day-night Test at Sabina ParkIt was a strange way to start. Out of Australia’s last 146 Test matches before taking the field at Sabina Park in Jamaica on Saturday, off spinner Nathan Lyon had missed seven. Four of those were in 2012 and 2013, left out for other configurations of bowlers. Three were after he blew out his calf during the 2023 Ashes. And that was that.Surprisingly, Kingston became the eighth match that Lyon has missed in his 14 years of Tests, and the fifth when fit, after a series in which he has gone for a few sixes but taken nine wickets at 18. Instead Australia opted to include Scott Boland as the fourth fast bowler for a day-night fixture on a surface that they guessed would suit pace. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago England suffer T20 series defeat as India ease to victory at Old Trafford

England laboured to 126 for seven.

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1 week ago West Lothian village bus protesters want return of service after 'year of isolation'

Elderly and infirm villagers who rely on buses have been cut off from public transport for more than a year. One told a meeting of the council’s Executive: “ We have bus passes, but no buses.”

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2 w. ago Steve Smith plots return for second West Indies Test after baseball cage hitout

Batter out to prove fitness following compound dislocation of finger Smith backs misfiring Cam Green and Sam Konstas to shine on tourSteve Smith has backed young guns Sam Konstas and Cameron Green to find their feet in the Caribbean, with the Australia batting great expecting to return to face West Indies in the second Test after putting his injured finger to the test in an unusual setting.The former captain missed Australia’s 159-run victory in the first Test against West Indies after injuring a finger when spilling a catch in the World Test Championship final defeat to South Africa. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Josh Hazlewood blitz sends Australia to victory inside three days in West Indies

First Test, day three: Australia 180 & 310; West Indies 190 & 141 Hazlewood picks up five wickets in 159-run victory in BridgetownIt was an extraordinary final session to end the first Test in Barbados in the long shadows of the third evening. After two days of wobbles, a portion of Australia’s batting got its act together, with the lower-middle-order trio of Travis Head, Beau Webster, and Alex Carey making half centuries to lift Australia’s second innings to 310. That left West Indies needing 301 to win the first Test in Barbados, always unlikely on a Kensington Oval pitch that already had balls keeping low. Josh Hazlewood made sure of it with a withering burst of 4-4 in 16 balls, later upping that to 5-23, as West Indies crashed humiliatingly to 141 all out, losing by 159 runs.Hazlewood has been the subject of some public attention of late, given his injury absences and how well Scott Boland has performed during each one. But the first-choice option has 288 Test wickets, t...

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2 w. ago India suffer humbling defeat but rise and fall in fighting spirit is biggest worry | Simon Burnton

With first Test against England in the balance the tourists revealed another of their plentiful flawsThe day started with drama and tension and later, for a while, they returned. But the period in between was in its own way equally intriguing, a phase that exposed in the tourists a deficiency not of quality, but of spirit. This turns out to be a team whose shoulders suffer from such severe premature drooping someone should invent some kind of blue pill to deal with it.They started with spirits high and performance levels to match, Jasprit Bumrah from the Kirkstall Lane End and Mohammed Siraj coming up the hill from the other, lines and lengths unerring. Ben Duckett hit the third ball for four, after which seven overs passed before the next boundary. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Air India blow as five passengers suffer horrifying symptoms on London flight

Nine people from flight Air India flight 130 from London to Mumbai suffered with nausea and dizziness, which was believed to have been caused by a decrease in cabin pressure

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3 w. ago Michail Antonio returns to football just SIX MONTHS after near

The West Ham forward had not featured in a match since crashing his Ferrari into a tree in December, an accident that left the striker with extensive injuries and lucky to be alive.

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3 w. ago Diddy trial live: Kanye West expected to return, with ‘drug mule’ among new witnesses

Fellow rapper made suprise appearance at courthouse on Friday in show of support for defendant

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4 w. ago Finn Russell explains risky pass as Bath grab Premiership glory to end 29

West Country club return to the summit of the English game

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