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    Baggy Green ball tampering: Bancroft, Smith and the Aussie "Leadership Group"

    Baggy Green ball tampering: Bancroft, Smith and the Aussie "Leadership Group" Thought it might be worth having a separate thread for this, unless the mods disagree?
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    Sarah Taylor takes a break

    Sussex and England legend Sarah Taylor is taking a break from cricket as she gets to grips with some inner strife. Brilliantly frank interview here Sarah Taylor: England wicketkeeper-batter takes break to deal with anxiety - BBC Sport. All the best to her.
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    David Cameron XI

    1. FH Bacon 2. Swill Jefferson 3. Jonathan Trotter 4. Wally Hammond 5. Paul Porker 6. P.I.G. Perera 7. Wally Snout + 8. Heath Streaky 9. Kevin Swine 10. Rodney Hogg 11. Babe Saunders “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it...
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    Stumped

    Can anyone explain why a batsman can be stumped off a wide but not off a no ball?
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    Senanayake banned

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    Colin Dredge

    Somerset needs you back.
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    Cricket Without Boundaries

    On Christmas Day Radio 5 Live carried a special feature about an innovative and remarkably successful charity called Cricket Without Boundaries which combines cricket coaching in sub-Saharan Africa with AIDS/HIV education. The podcast can be found here. Worth a listen.
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    RIP Christopher Martin-Jenkins

    BBC is reporting that the Great Man has died of cancer. RIP
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    Happy Birthday Alan Turing

    Should have been raising his bat today for a pretty spectacular century. Great man.
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    Happy Birthday Fredfertang

    Title refers. WAG. The cake large enough to accommodate the requisite candles has yet to be baked - it will surely be the equivalent of the mile-long hot dog or "acre of paella" you tend to see under the Guinness World Records banner - but I'm sure we can wish our wisest and, frankly, best CW...
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    David Gower

    The man needs a thread of his own. In fact, not the man, and certainly not the commentator, but the heaven-sent and blessed cricketer with a talent that many of us would have committed mass murder for. Thoughts and memories please. Here's an excellent pen portrait of an innings in which Gower...
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    In Praise of Andy Flower

    Coach of the Year in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards. Successful, modest, thoughtful, intelligent, dignified, principled. WAFG. WAFG.
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    Spare Ticket for Archive Cricket Evening (London Southbank)

    I have a spare ticket for the Archive Cricket Evening at the British Film Institute on the South Bank in London this evening. Available at the special discount price of nil. Please email me on tac@cloisters.com if you'd like it. I'm told (by wisden18 who knows about these things) that the...
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    Rank, the Indian Batsmen

    Title refers.
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    Nightwatchmen

    What is the purpose of the nightwatchman? There is a general perception that his role is to protect the batsman whom he goes out to join near the end of the day's play. Seems to me this is just plain wrong. His role is not to protect the batsman who's already batting (except perhaps in the...
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