Four members of England’s West Indies tour party have been made available to Yorkshire to make their first appearances of the season in the LV= County Championship against Hampshire at Headingley on Sunday. Adam Lyth, Jonny Bairstow, Adil Rashid and Liam Plunkett have all missed the first three games of Yorkshire’s title defence, and Bairstow […]
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The first Roses clash of the NatWest Twenty20 Blast is close to being a sell-out. Yorkshire Vikings will host the keenly-anticipated match against Lancashire Lightning on June 5 under the new Headingley lights and already 98 per cent of tickets have been sold. With only a handful of single tickets left to sell Yorkshire have
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Younus Khan and Azhar Ali both smashed centuries as Pakistan grabbed the early advantage on day one of the second Test against Bangladesh at Mirpur. It was a first hundred since November last year for Younus, who plundered 11 fours and three sixes in his innings before falling in the 85th over just two short
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Peter Moores sees signs of England developing the “ruthlessness” they need to win Test series and avoid “frustration” like at being held by West Indies. Moores cites the tourists’ last day demolition of the Windies in Grenada as evidence of the former, although he says the latter is the main emotion after yesterday’s loss meant
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ecb.co.uk’s Andy Wilson pays tribute former Lancashire groundsman Pete Marron, who has sadly passed away aged 59. I remember walking around the back of the huge temporary stands at the Stretford End of Emirates Old Trafford late on the fifth day of the famous 2005 Ashes Test, pushing a Silvercross pram as it happens, although
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