Cricket
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Steve O’Keefe took six for 35 as India crumbled to 105 all out in their first innings and set Australia on course for a remarkable win
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Renshaw’s innings interrupted when he retired hurt 15 minutes before lunch because of a stomach bug during the first Test against India in Pune
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Australia are currently in India for a four-Test series, but it is hard to imagine any of their matches being as dramatic as their meeting in Madras in 1986
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Australia reached 256-9 at stumps on day one of the first Test in Pune, after Matt Renshaw and Mitchell Starc resisted India’s spin battalion
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Over-by-over report: every over as Australia reached 256-9 after day one of the first Test against India in Pune, where Matt Renshaw posted a mature 68
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Australia appear to have made notional strides towards better meeting their Asian opponents, but the Everest of India could still prove insurmountable
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Legspinner Adam Zampa and allrounder James Faulkner both claimed three wickets as Australia avoided a T20 series whitewash
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Australia’s Test tour promises little in the way of genuinely competitive cricket, as a rock-solid home batting line-up meets a fledgling one
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Sportblog With the IPL’s millions, this is surely the best time to be a top-level cricketer
Vic MarksAfter Tymal Mills went for £1.4m in the latest IPL auction, what price would Ian Botham or Denis Compton in their pomp have reached?
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For the second time in as many days, Sri Lanka beat Australia on the final ball of a T20 international, as the tourists secured the series 2-0
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Rarely in English cricket history can there have been a captaincy transition with so little turmoil as Joe Root’s but how this translates into on-field success remains to be seen
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BBC Bargain Hunt’s Richard Madley is again calling lots at cricket’s richest auction with eight England players hoping to spark bidding wars among IPL franchises
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Sportblog As Joe Root smoothly steps up, where are England’s captaincy shemozzles of yore?
Matthew EngelThe ECB did its best to make it seem there was doubt over who would replace Alastair Cook in a role that has markedly declined in visibility and power – not to mention good-chappery and chaos -
Sri Lanka have defeated Australia by five wickets in the first T20I at the MCG after Chamara Kapugedera scored a boundary from the game’s final delivery
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Jack Leach, the Somerset left-arm spinner, was omitted from the England Lions side against Sri Lanka A in Pallekele
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Australia’s Southern Stars have defeated New Zealand by 40 runs in the first Twenty20 international at the MCG, thanks to Elyse Villani’s undefeated 73
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Cricket authorities need to look at introducing concussion substitutes in the first-class game, says Australian wicketkeeper Matthew Wade
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With skill and appetite growing outside Test-playing nations, the need to shift power from Australia, England and India has never been so great. But is incremental reform enough, and will urgent changes get the backing they need?
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Sportblog Joe Root can take heart from proud history of Yorkshire’s England captains
Vic Marks at HeadingleyPast bodes well for Joe Root, Yorkshire’s 10th England Test captain, who can look back on a lineage of lords, knights and no little silverware
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England’s vice-captain, Ben Stokes, has said he will not change his style of play because of his new role
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Joe Root has been appointed as England’s new Test captain after accepting the position during talks with Andrew Strauss, the director of cricket
Sportblog Australia end wait for win in India as Steve Smith backs his words with action