Cricket

• Marcus Smith breaks to score a try for England against Italy, Peres Jepchirchir wins last year's London Marathon, Nottingham Forest's Callum Hudson-Odoi celebrates scoring the winner against Manchester City.

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• Henry Hunt of South Australia reacts after being dismissed during a Sheffield Shield match

  AFL blocks Cricket Australia bid to play Sheffield Shield final at Adelaide Oval

• Mark Wood bowls against Afghanistan in the Champions Trophy

  Mark Wood expected to miss England’s Tests against India after knee surgery

• Harmanpreet Kaur, Alfred Mynn, Learie Constantine, Viv Richards, Enid Bakewell

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  The centuries that changed cricket (and a few that changed the world)

• David Warner plays a shot for Australia

  Warner joins London Spirit in men’s Hundred but Anderson unsold in draft

• India players celebrate with the trophy on the podium after winning the ICC Men's Champions Trophy

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  We should love this India team but Champions Trophy felt a hollow triumph

• Andrew Flintoff and Brendon McCullum before the third Test match between England and Sri Lanka on 6 September 2024

  Flintoff earmarked as England white-ball coach if McCullum takes break

• The women's Ashes Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

  Australia and England set for day-night Test at MCG for 150th Ashes anniversary

• Ravindra Jadeja celebrates after India win the Champions Trophy.

  India beat New Zealand by four wickets to win Champions Trophy – as it happened

• India’s players celebrate their Champions Trophy victory over New Zealand in Dubai.

  India see off New Zealand to complete clinical Champions Trophy triumph

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  ‘It’s so exciting to be in on this’: why Chelsea owners bought into the Hundred

  Jonathan Goldstein, who with Todd Boehly spent 40ドルm to buy half of Trent Rockets, says English cricket has been ‘significantly underexploited’ until now

• Barney Ronay

  Ben Stokes is cricket’s last action hero – the ODI captaincy can be his Viking funeral

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  The instinct is to protect England’s Test captain, but he’s the functioning brain of Bazball and it’s hard to think of anyone better to lead the ODI team
• England players look dejected after defeat in the Test match which sealed a 16-0 whitewash

  Kate Cross fears England have lost fans after debacle in Women’s Ashes

  Kate Cross has admitted there are cultural issues within English women’s cricket and said she fears England have lost fans after a disastrous Ashes
• Armand Duplantis, Natasha Jonas, Jordan Pickford.

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• England's Ben Stokes in action at the 2023 World Cup

  Ben Stokes in frame for England ODI captaincy and Harry Brook for T20 role

• Pakistan’s interim head coach Aaqib Javed

  Gillespie brands Pakistan successor Javed ‘a clown’ amid coaching row

• Rachin Ravindra of New Zealand celebrates with Kane Williamson after reaching his century

  New Zealand smash South Africa to set up Champions Trophy final with India

• New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner leads his team from the field after sealing their place in the final.

  New Zealand beat South Africa by 50 runs to reach ICC Champions Trophy final – as it happened

• Leicestershire head groundsman, Andy Ward, walks across the pitch at Grace Road

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  ‘I never wanted to work indoors’: Andy Ward on 40 years as a cricket groundsman

• Steve Smith

  Australia’s Steve Smith retires from one-day international cricket