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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
• Anxiety disorder forces Trescothick to leave India prematurely • Latest relapse ends any hope of a return to England set-up Marcus Trescothick's attempt to conquer his anxiety disorder and play for Somerset in the Champions League has ended prematurely. Trescothick has flown home early from India after suffering a repeat of the stress-related condition that put paid to his England career...
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Test Match Special (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
The nights may be starting to draw in and autumn TV favourites like The X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing are beginning their long, relentless runs through to Christmas. But there is plenty of life left in the English cricket summer with seven one-day internationals between England and Australia still to play, not to mention the climax of the County Championship and Pro-40 competition. It certainly...
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Total Football! (Free subscription) | 16/08/2009
It is time to indulge this blog in another of my favourite sports, cricket. I am sure every England fan will admit that watching the two and a half days play at Headingley was nothing short of horrific, I mean, it was truly awful to watch. Numbers three, four and five combined in two innings to score sixteen runs between them. That is 16-6, from three of the supposedly top batsmen this country has...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/08/2009
• Sussex 172-7 (20 over); Somerset 109 • Sussex win by 63 runs Sussex Sharks lifted the Twenty20 Cup for the first time - and qualified for the lucrative Champions League - when they defeated Somerset Sabres by 63 runs in the final at Edgbaston. But one of their heroes, West Indian all-rounder Dwayne Smith, is almost certain to be unavailable to play for them in the tournament in India in...
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SwissToni's Place (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
The football season is already upon us, and the Premier League kicks off this weekend. I've just spent hours and hours pulling together an almost completely hopeless and ill-informed preview of the season over on Cheer Up Alan Shearer . Mystic Meg I am not, so do go and amuse yourselves at the implausibility of my predictions. Besides, I haven't the energy to write anything else after that marathon....
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
• Nottinghamshire 388; Warwickshire 24-0 Neither version of Ashley Giles had a satisfactory day here. Warwickshire's director of cricket saw his side win the toss and reduce Nottinghamshire to 43 for three. The home side, though, won the day, scoring 388. But if Giles turned to his alter ego in the hope of being cheered up it was to no avail. The England Test selector, here to check on the form...
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4sportsake.com (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Why all this talk of Ramps being parachuted into the England side for the Oval Test when Andrew Strauss and the selectors should be begging Banger to pad up and come in at number three against the Aussies? Trescothick is in supreme form right now. Six Championship centuries, more than 1200 runs and an impressive average of over 81 tell the story. His figures are better than Ramprakash and let's not...
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SNOPPER SAYS..... (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
CONSOLATION... I`ve got quite a collection of books about cricket. I won`t list them all here but they include the collected works of John Arlott; Ronald Mason`s `Ashes in the Mouth,` which chronicles the 1932-33 Bodyline series; David Foot`s excellent biography of Harold Gimblett; histories of Hampshire, Somerset and Glamorgan; numerous Wisdens including Benny Green`s Wisden Anthologies and David...
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Dipz Cricket World (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
The latest round of County Championship matches left Durham sitting even prettier at the top of the tree. Their nine-wicket victory over Sussex was largely thanks to a career-best 254 not out from Michael Di Venuto, stretching his first-class run aggregate further ahead of fellow Aussie Mr Ponting's! There were even two and very nearly three double-centuries in one game at The Oval. One came from the...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 24/06/2009
Over a century cricket has been littered with regretful incidents, some tragic some farcical It is a regret of mine that I missed Tom "Curly" Richardson, one of our greatest fast bowlers, by just 17 years – not really such a long time when we fancifully span cricket's expansive history. In 1912 his body was found – though never quite explained – on a French hillside. By...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 31/05/2009
It is more likely to be Charlotte Edwards than Paul Collingwood who collects a World Twenty20 trophy There is every chance that on Sunday 21 June at Lord's an England captain will be raising the Twenty20 trophy to the skies in front of an adoring crowd. The likelihood is that the captain will be Charlotte Edwards rather than Paul Collingwood. The two Twenty20 tournaments run side by side, with the...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
Surrey (326 & 172-7) lead Somerset (446) by 52 runs Surrey batsman will be marooned for almost a month on 99 first-class hundreds until Surrey host Kent at the Oval.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 23/04/2008
Lancashire cricket manager Mike Watkinson hoped his team would use their missed opportunities in the field at the Oval last week as a wake-up call after Surrey's powerful batting line-up made them suffer.
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This is Bath (Free subscription) | 13/09/2007
Marcus Trescothick hit a superb 124 as Somerset beat Surrey in a NatWest Pro40 thriller at The Oval on Tuesday night to clinch promotion to Division 1. The Sabres squeezed home by just five runs in a nail-biting finish and can secure the Division ...
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