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Exclusive: Ramnaresh Sarwan on a Very English Summer of Cricket with Leicestershire

Weather-wise, April 20 was pretty bleak at the County Ground in Derby. There was fine drizzle in the air which, allied to excruciating cold, made cricket decidedly unpalatable for the second day of the home side’s County Championship Division Two clash with Leicestershire.   Ramnaresh Sarwan, the...
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The Brakes Are Off As Swann Matures With England Captaincy

The cheeky chappie grin has deserted Graeme Swann as he sips Earl Grey and shakes his head at staggering news of three international test cricketers being imprisoned for fixing elements of a Lords test match Swann played in last summer.   The 32-year-old number one spinner in the world normally lik...
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England's Laura Marsh Optimistic of a Bright Future for Women's Cricket

England bowler Laura Marsh believes the recent ECB investment into the women’s game is nothing short of what they deserve following years of success and domination.   Since making her international Test debut during India’s 2006 summer tour where she claimed figures of 3/44, Marsh has helped En...
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Moore Reflects on Personal Success and Lancashire's Historic Title Victory

It has been a remarkable year for Lancashire’s opening batsman Stephen Moore who helped deliver the first County Championship title in 77 years and once again amassed more than 1000 runs over the season. At the start of the county campaign, Moore was uncertain as to whether he would even be able t...
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Pietersen Falling Back In Love With Cricket

Twelve months ago Kevin Pietersen, by his own admission, had fallen out of love with cricket. Cast out as England captain in 2009 the South African-born star of his adopted country’s batting line up, hindered by injury and fatigue, looked a pale shadow of his former, swashbuckling self. There were...
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Darren Gough: Life Beyond the Boundary

Any member of the Twenty20 generation will fiercely protest, and probably call you a 'badger' if you emphasise your point with too much vigour, but there can be no denying it. Cricket is a bone fide fantasyland for statisticians. With averages and scorecards to appease even the neediest numerical ju...
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Isa Guha: Star of the Silver Seam

The clichés churned out to aspiring sportsmen and women are as numerous as they are mundane. Any self-respecting teenager will surely find the well-worn spiel about ‘having something to fall back on’ or ‘finding more strings to their bow,’ extremely patronising. When ent...
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Ashes Hero Finn Hopes to Learn From Cricket Legends

As thousands descended upon Sydney for the final Test of the 2010 Ashes series, a haven of English support accumulated in one corner of the SCG. Intermittent showers could not prevent Andrew Strauss' men from clinching a convincing 3-1 Ashes victory by an innings and 83 runs, as that noisy corner re...
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Promotion the Priority for Middlesex

It’s been just six days since the completion of the sensational World Cup and the end of England’s gruelling winter schedule, but the game’s domestic competition is now under way.  County cricket, the sport that symbolises the British summer, is as fierce and competitive as ever...
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Ryan Sidebottom on his Return to Yorkshire, the World Cup, and the Slow Death of 50-over Cricket

On the other side of the world, specifically the sub-continent, the ICC World Cup is in full swing.  England are in the midst of yet another major tournament having left these shores for the Ashes tour to Australia over three months ago.   One man who knows all about the lifestyle of an internation...
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