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The day witnessed a typical Test upheaval and an intriguing opening day’s game at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff for the first Ashes Test between Australia and England.
After the rather somber lunch, England found their able crisis men doing...
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The man who is writing on the future of the game has a grouse with a man trying to determine that future.
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Australia were the team breathing easy at the lunch break on the first day of the first Test at Cardiff as England slumped into a problem.
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The West Indies cricket plunged further and deeper into controversy, this time as players threaten to boycott the home series against Bangladesh altogether.
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The last two Ashes series have been dramatic contradictions of each other and Australia, while retaining the Ashes, have something to prove again in England.
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The first Ashes Test of 2009 got underway at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff with England electing to bat first.
The decision from England’s captain Andrew Strauss...
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The England team virtually picked themselves as they played the warm up match against Warwickshire. The only exception - another Ashes man bites the dust as Steve...
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