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January 28, 2024: perhaps Test cricket's greatest ever day. The brutality of Test cricket makes close matches and upsets rare - but all the more memorable when they do happen.

In 147 years of Test cricket there has never been a day like Sunday

Two thrillers ended within hours of each other and are now part of the game’s rich tapestry – administrators would do well to take notice

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3 years

Look forward to seeing more cricket between evenly-matched sides when India meet Scotland and Namibia later in the Super 12s

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Cricket for the sake of broadcasting obligations and this is what you get

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AB de Villiers survived 220 balls for 33 to save the Adelaide Test in 2012 - and then thumped 169 off 184 to help win the Perth Test a week later. The batter who could do everything; a player of incredible range, skill and versatility.

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Varun Chakravarthy's journey - from making his debut in the Tamil Nadu Premier League, aged 25, to being in India's World Cup squad 4 years later - is remarkable. It shows how the IPL, and the state T20 leagues beneath it, are democratising Indian cricket.

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2 years

Tim David is going to be very in demand in the IPL auction - essentially, in the Kieron Pollard role. And hard to think he won’t be in Australia’s team come this year’s T20 World Cup

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7 months

Liftoff in the Cricket World Cup - shame about all the empty seats

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No Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant or Mohammad Shami all series yet India are still 3-1 up: a sign of just how hard they are to beat and why they've now won 17 straight series at home

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3 years

The lengths that India will go to just to make sure R Ashwin doesn't play a Test this series

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2 years

Jasprit Bumrah - an absolute artist. And, with all the talk about how T20 can hinder players in Test cricket, illustrates how the very best players bring in T20 skills to enhance their Test game

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2 years

With Jonny Bairstow, Liam Livingstone & Odean Smith, Punjab Kings have a very clear identity with the bat: prioritising six-hitting, the same method Birmingham Phoenix used with the same analyst - Dan Weston - in the Hundred

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2 years

England are 24-4. And they say Test and T20 cricket are different sports

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2 years

Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad and Chris Woakes in the 1st innings at Adelaide in 2017: 88-20-230-4 Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad and Chris Woakes in the 1st innings at Adelaide in 2021: 78.4-22-234-4 Four years of Ashes planning to get... nowhere at all.

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6 months

Netherlands begged for ODIs after qualifying for the 10-team World Cup. They didn't get any - but they've won 2 of their 6 World Cup games anyway, beating both South Africa and Bangladesh easily.

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3 years

Two new IPL teams going for $950 ml and $710m is a reminder of the IPL's clout and why owners love it: with no relegation and a bumper media deal, you can make a profit without even winning - just like US sports league, which the IPL was modelled on

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2 years

England all out for under 200 for the 13th time in Test cricket in 2021, in 28 innings

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5 years

Before this year no one had ever got 53 off the last 3 overs to win an IPL game. Thanks to Andre Russell, KKR have done that twice already - both *easily* in the end. Russell is redefining what is attainable - and considered normal - in T20.

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3 years

Shardul Thakur - he makes things happen. The Indian Sam Curran

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3 years

Nuts that Ishan Kishan was dropped by Mumbai Indians a few weeks ago

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1 year

In the last decade, playing India away is up there with the greatest challenges ever in Test cricket. Since 2013 India won 35 out of 43 home Tests, losing just two - and 15 of those wins have been by an innings.

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4 years

West Indies have come to a country with one of the highest COVID-19 death rates in the world, and helped save English cricket £280 million this summer. Time for England to show their thanks for supporting West Indies's pleas for away teams to get 20% of broadcasting rights

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2 years

England's misuse of Jofra Archer has been incredible. Flogged for 82 overs in back-to-back Tests in New Zealand in 2019 - a series not even part of the World Test Championship. Archer - and England - are still suffering from it

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6 years

Afghanistan, the most compelling team in world cricket, tie with India. 10 years ago Afghanistan were playing with Japan and Botswana.

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1 year

Gujarat Titans qualifying for the IPL final with 2 Afghans and one Irish player in their XI shows the best of the IPL, and franchise cricket: how it has democratised the game and provided opportunities that the international game rarely has

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3 years

How a 17-year-old from Bangalore became a performance analyst for Dundee United. He works from his bedroom in India and has never been to Scotland @AshwinRaman_ 's unlikely story and the changing face of football scouting

How a teenager from Bangalore became a performance analyst for Dundee United

Ashwin Raman, 17, has never been to Scotland, let alone Dundee — but he has become an unlikely cog in the Premiership side's wheel

www.telegraph.co.uk

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5 years

As disappointing as they've been, Afghanistan should have beaten Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan - which, considering they had played *0* ODIs in England before the World Cup, gives some indication of the talent they possess and what they could achieve with better governance.

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2 years

The £2.1 million bonus awarded to the ECB's top officials this summer looks more incredible by the day

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3 years

South Africa going out on net run rate with 4 wins from 5 games is very rough. A simple tweak to stop this happening would be the top team getting to the semi-finals, and second and third teams playing off in quarter-finals to join them. Would be two extra knockout games too

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2 years

Sikandar Raza's World Cup so far: 5 matches, 145 runs at a strike rate of 149, 8 wickets at 12, 3 player of the match awards

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3 years

Tom Curran in his last 10 ODIs: 1-412 from 74 overs

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2 years

An understrength Bangladesh beating New Zealand - world Test champions, unbeaten in 17 Tests at home, winning 8 of those by an innings - in New Zealand will be one of the great Test match upsets

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2 years

England have now lost a combined 13-0 across the last 3 Ashes series in Australia. For all the hype, the Ashes down under has been consistently abject as a spectacle. It's hard to call it elite sport - or argue it justifies 5 matches - when one side are consistently so poor

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1 year

No deciding third Test is such a shame: making all Test series in the World Test Championship 3 matches would be a great way to help Test cricket.

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3 years

Weird dynamic but if India win too quickly it might actually damage their chances of progression. If Afghanistan need to beat NZ by say 30-40 runs just to get ahead on NRR, may play in such a risky way that there's less chance of them winning than if they only need a 1 run win

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2 years

It shouldn't be impossible for England, with their financial resources and playing pool, to be v competitive in both Tests and limited-overs cricket. New Zealand have far less $ and only 5 million people, but are World Test champions and reached the last 2 World Cup finals

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3 years

Very few players have had more impact on T20 than Chris Gayle, the Bradman of T20. Has scored 22 centuries; the next best is 8. Has hit 1043 sixes; the next best is 760. A phenomenon

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2 years

From 150-2, with two set batters on a good batting wicket and no Pat Cummins or Josh Hazlewood, you can make a very strong case that England losing their last 8 wickets for 86 was their single most disappointing passage of play of this Ashes series yet

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4 years

Since 2018, Babar Azam averages more than anyone else in Test cricket. He also averages over 50 in ODIs and T20Is A piece on why Azam is special

Smith, Kohli, Williamson and Root have company - the rise of Pakistan's Babar Azam

Azam, 25, is on the cusp of superstardom after success in all formats for Pakistan

www.telegraph.co.uk

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5 years

Their annual revenue is less than Surrey County Cricket Club. They have the smallest population of any of the 12 Test nations. The New Zealand model: how New Zealand reached consecutive World Cup finals, and number 2 in the Test rankings

Why New Zealand's little big guys are most impressive team in the world

Their annual revenue is less than Surrey County Cricket Club.

www.telegraph.co.uk

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6 years

First Nepal player in the IPL; first day of Test cricket for Ireland. What a day for world cricket

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2 years

New Zealand-South Africa ending in a 1-1 draw feels like a good illustration of why it would be better if all series in the World Test Championship were 3 matches

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3 years

Emma Raducanu winning 10 straight matches without losing a set to win the US Open - 3 qualifiers and 7 matches in the main draw - in her second ever Grand Slam is one of the great sports stories

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2 years

Marco Jansen: 21, 6ft 8in, a left-armer, good pace and already being picked as no 7 in Test cricket. Has the making of an immense cricketer for South Africa

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11 months

Missing 8 players - who are playing county cricket instead - Netherlands match West Indies's 374 and then thump them in the Super Over of the World Cup qualifiers. Absolutely extraordinary win

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2 years

Rachin Ravindra batting 91 balls undefeated in the fourth innings to save a Test in India on debut is a serious effort

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3 years

Rishabh Pant batting, so must be time for everyone to take apart the method of a guy with a Test average of 44

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5 months

Rachin Ravindra being left out from both New Zealand's Tests in Bangladesh - after his brilliant World Cup batting and with his bowling handy on spinning wickets too - seems one of the most baffling pieces of Test selection in years

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2 years

Since Jimmy Anderson turned 35, he has taken 24 wickets at 23.83 in Australia. Phenomenal.

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3 years

Another brilliant 5th day Indian win in London. On the two grounds that have offered the least seam and swing, India have beaten England by over 150 runs. India are a better team in all-conditions; England need extreme home conditions to close the gap

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4 months

There's a plastic feel about many new T20 competitions but the SA20 - vibrant and young local crowds, only 6 teams so a concentration of talent and an excellent domestic player pool - feels like franchise cricket at its best

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6 months

In the last 30 years there’s been 8 Cricket World Cup finals; Australia have been in 6 of them. Extraordinary record

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6 years

Croatia, with 4 million people, the smallest country to reach the World Cup final since Uruguay in 1950

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2 years

Think Pakistan may ultimately rue the World Cup the most. Outstanding in their group and in control until the final 4 overs against Australia. Their batting line-up doesn’t seem that suited to Australia next year, when teams will need 180+.

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2 months

Overpowering from India; without Ollie Pope's magnificent 196 in Hyderabad, the score could have been 5-0. Ultimately, as expected, India's spinners far too good

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3 years

Incredible moment for Namibia - country with five cricket pitches who have now won their first game in the Super 12s. Have such a clear gameplan and role clarity.

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3 months

Few Tests have changed so dramatically and so quickly. Barely 150 overs ago England were 224-2, with realistic hopes of a first innings lead. Now they are facing one of their heaviest ever defeats

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3 years

Channel 4 will be using Mambo Number 5 in the credits for the India-England Test series

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2 years

The rest of this Test will go a long way to determining the legacy of this Indian Test side. If they can win in South Africa, following the twin victories in Aus (and 2-1 in Eng) furthers their claims to being among the best Test teams ever, just below 80-95 WI and 95-07 Aussies

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3 years

Would be a lot of complaining about the pitch/conditions if England were 78 all out on the first morning in India, to judge by reactions to England being 112 all out at Ahmedabad in February

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11 months

So much talk about no Ashes Tests in August but, with no Premier League football for 6 weeks and relatively low British prospects in Wimbledon, an incredible opportunity for cricket to dominate the sports landscape over the next 6 weeks.

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3 years

One short is one of cricket's really odd rules - if you're one short on a 2 you haven't actually completed either run properly

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6 months

David Willey retires from international cricket more valuable than ever. Since 2020 averages 32 with the bat in ODIs and 48 wickets at 22 with the ball. One of England’s best players this World Cup too

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5 years

Russell now has 207 runs from 77 balls at an average of 103.50 this IPL season. Threatening to put together a season that changes T20 forever.

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7 months

Alex Hartley to become spin bowling coach for Multan Sultans

England's Alex Hartley to become latest female coach of men's team with PSL job

Exclusive: Multan Sultans are also set to appoint Catherine Dalton as a female fast bowling coach

www.telegraph.co.uk

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5 years

Shakib is a remarkable cricketer: the only player in the World Cup who could claim to be both his team's best batsman and best bowler. An absolute titan

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10 months

Another sensational Ashes Test. England’s two returning players make all the difference. Chris Woakes with 6-141 in the match, Mark Wood with 7-100 - and they’re together at the end scoring the winning runs. Hard to leave out either at Old Trafford

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5 years

The summer when England lost the Ashes without really losing, and New Zealand lost the World Cup final without really losing

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6 months

Winning the World Test Championship final, retaining the Ashes in England, winning the ODI World Cup in India after losing their first two games: what an incredible year for Australian cricket

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3 months

Since 2013, India have won 36 Tests at home and lost just three - and they've won 15 times by an innings. Winning in India is more arduous than touring Steve Waugh’s Australia or Clive Lloyd’s West Indies - it is the hardest challenge in Test history

Why India are the best home team in Test history

India’s record at home is formidable, having not lost a series for more than a decade – and there are many reasons for it

www.telegraph.co.uk

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5 years

Afghanistan sacking Afghan, their captain for 4 years, and replacing him with Gulbadin on the brink of the World Cup, was remarkable. That's the sadness of Afghanistan's World Cup campaign: politics has dragged the team down, and they're performing under themselves.

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5 years

Cricket World Cup final leads to an ICC rule change: from now on, Super Over repeated until one team scores more runs. Had those rules been in place for 2019 final, would have been another Super Over

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5 years

From averaging 14 for Yorkshire and being dropped by India to three centuries in a Test series in Australia. Remarkable turnaround in five months for Che Pujara

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2 months

Ben Foakes has been involved in 6 century stands in 13 Tests under Ben Stokes's captaincy: his innings today was typical of Foakes at his best as a batter. But England have often been happier to praise Foakes than actually to pick him

Ben Foakes changed the course of day one – but the sense remains that England don't trust him

Foakes made 47 in the first innings in Ranchi, but allowed Joe Root to excel at the other end

www.telegraph.co.uk

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7 months

Why was the crowd for the start of the World Cup so poor? 🔵 'Indians don’t love cricket, Indians love Indian cricket.' 🔵Tickets late to be sold, venues changes and poor marketing 🔵Fans coming later after work - ticket prices are not that big a factor

Cricket World Cup embarrassment as England v New Zealand played in empty 134,000-seat stadium

The BCCI has given every impression of regarding fans with contempt

www.telegraph.co.uk

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2 years

Don't think Associate cricket has ever had a better advert than this week. All teams have brought a lot - and won at least one game; no side has been undefeated; cricket has been cutthroat and of good quality. It has been a great advert for the 20-team World Cup coming in 2024

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4 years

James Anderson is the first fast bowler aged 37 or over to get a 5-fer for England since 1951

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5 years

Japan's record in the Rugby World Cup until 2015: played 24, won one. Now an amazing asset for their sport. This is exactly the sort of drama cricket's 10 team World Cup misses

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10 months

Ridiculous achievement from Netherlands, overcoming absence of 8 players - mostly not released by counties - to qualify ahead of 3 Test nations for the ODI World Cup in India

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2 years

Absolute madness at the MCG. The brilliant and the absurd

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2 years

If New Zealand lose, selection of Ajaz Patel - who has only been trusted to bowl two overs - over Neil Wagner could be said to have cost them the game

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Jasprit Bumrah is extraordinarily good at the death, but only giving him one of the first 12 overs, when the opposition are 173-3, is just holding back the best T20 quick bowler in the world until it's much too late

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7 years

Never change, Pakistan

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2 years

Jimmy Anderson averages 23 in the Ashes and 22 since the start of 2020. He’s been dropped when there are no real signs that he’s a diminished force. Yes, he’s 39 but this feels a textbook case of dropping bowlers for batting failings

Telegraph Cricket

@TeleCricket

2 years

Exclusive: James Anderson left out of England squad for West Indies tour, reports @NHoultCricket

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4 years

The Big Three have had the temerity to say there's no gap in the calendar for an extra 2-week ODI tournament every 4 years. Now plan an extra 2-week ODI tournament among themselves every year

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4 years

The proposed 'Super Series' between 🇦🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇳 and a fourth team could become an annual affair

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Yes his approach is high risk and his dismissals can look terrible. But, aged 24, Rishabh Pant has already scored centuries in Australia, England and South Africa. He's an incredible talent. What you get in return for those infuriating dismissals is well worth it

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This World Cup is missing the brilliant Rishabh Pant

Rishabh Pant should be starring in World Cup, instead he is training alone after life-changing crash

India cricketer suffered multiple injuries after his car hit a central divider, flipped over and caught fire last December

www.telegraph.co.uk

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6 years

Shane Watson - the only man to twice be IPL man of the tournament, and now a centurion in an IPL final - is one of the greatest T20 cricketers of all time

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2 years

Chasing 240, against a fine attack on a very tricky wicket to win by 7 wickets - that's an outstanding victory by South Africa. At 1-1 with a decider to come, all set up to be a classic series

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The brutal nature of Test cricket means upsets are incredibly rare. This West Indies win in Australia, with several players missing - their first against Australia for 21 years - is up there with the great shocks

7Cricket

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WEST INDIES WIN! ONE OF THE BIGGEST UPSETS IN TEST MATCH HISTORY! #AUSvWI

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A pretty good few days ❤️

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Scotland beat Afghanistan, tie with Zimbabwe and only lose to West Indies because of no DRS. They played 4 ODIs v Test teams in 4 years and get 1/8th the ICC funding Zimbabwe get. And ICC say World Cup cut because there aren't enough competitive teams

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No better illustration of Test cricket’s challenge than South Africa thrashing India, suggesting they could be Test Championship final contenders - and then announcing a squad to New Zealand that amounts to a C team, with all players with SA20 deals unavailable

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CSA ANNOUNCES SQUAD FOR NEW ZEALAND TEST SERIES Neil Brand will captain the side. Clyde Fortuin, Mihlali Mpongwana, Neil Brand, Ruan de Swardt, Raynard Van Tonder, Tshepo Moreki & Shaun Von Berg are in line for Test Debuts #NZvSA

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West Indies have shown again the region's talent and commitment to Test cricket. Moments like this show the bigger structural changes that are needed to help teams like them - sharing revenue in the game more; minimum payments so players don't lose out playing Test cricket

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6 years

Rashid Khan in the BBL this season: 2-22, 2-22, 2-19, 2-18 and 2-21. This is why he's so good @ESPNcricinfo

Rashid Khan and inverting conventional wisdom

Chasing has been a successful trend recently in T20s but on Friday night the legspinner bucked that and helped Adelaide Strikers become the first BBL side to win after opting to bat first since...

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Exclusive: Multan Sultans appoint Alex Hartley as spin bowling coach, as more female coaches take up roles in the men's game

England's Alex Hartley to become latest female coach of men's team with PSL job

Exclusive: Multan Sultans are also set to appoint Catherine Dalton as a female fast bowling coach

www.telegraph.co.uk

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3 years

Adam Milne only conceding 7 from the last 10 balls. New Zealand picking Tim Southee over Milne for the T20 World Cup looking ever-more bizarre

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11 months

ICC considering 2 major steps to manage T20 leagues: 🔵Limit of 4 overseas players from Test nations in each 11 🔵All T20 leagues required to give national boards 10% of the fee they will pay each player Big implications for leagues, especially ILT20

ICC take action against franchise leagues to protect Test cricket

Exclusive: Jason Roy's decision to cancel his contract has brought the ICC's attempt to protect the international game into sharp focus

www.telegraph.co.uk

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3 years

Six games into the T20 World Cup, Mark Watt has still not conceded a-run-a-ball all tournament - even though he often bowls an over at the death. 1-13 against New Zealand is an outstanding return. Watt will surely now get a county deal for next season, and perhaps other gigs

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5 years

Mitchell Marsh has an Ashes 5-fer before Pat Cummins has ever got one. There is no justice

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6 years

One Test of South Africa-India has already offered more on field drama - real, not manufactured - than five Ashes Tests

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11 months

For India, their Test team feels near the end of a cycle. Has been a brilliant era - impregnable at home, with those amazing moments in Australia. But with 2 World Test Championship final defeats, 2 narrow defeats in SA and the 2-2 in Eng, also sense of missed opportunities

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