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Brendon McCullum believes England’s Ashes squad will be “pretty easy” to select but Ollie Pope could be replaced as vice-captain by Harry Brook for the blockbuster series.
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15.09.2025
Brendon McCullum is embracing Ashes fever as England’s head coach insisted he is satisfied with having just one warm-up before facing Australia.
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15.09.2025
Jacob Bethell is ready to embrace the “pretty cool” honour of becoming the youngest man to captain England when he takes the next step of his rapid ascent in Ireland.
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16.09.2025
Sir Geoffrey Boycott has warned England not to believe their own hype ahead of this winter’s Ashes, suggesting they do not need to act like ‘Harlem Globetrotters’ to defeat Australia.
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16.09.2025
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17.09.2025
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17.09.2025
Phil Salt made the difference as England chased down 197 in their first T20 against Ireland, handing Jacob Bethell a winning start to his record-breaking captaincy.
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18.09.2025
Phil Salt produced another match-winning turn for England’s T20 side in Ireland but admitted he is in the dark about his prospects of earning an ODI recall.
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18.09.2025
Jos Buttler believes England’s white-ball reboot is taking shape ahead of next year’s T20 World Cup.
The post Jos Buttler: England’s new-look white-ball team ‘shaping up really well’ appeared first on The Cricket Paper.
18.09.2025
Nottinghamshire won a thriller against Surrey at The Oval to take control of the Rothesay County Championship race.
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19.09.2025
Australia captain Pat Cummins has not yet ruled out playing all five Ashes Tests this winter, despite ongoing concerns over his back injury.
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19.09.2025
Worcestershire Rapids take on Hampshire on Saturday in the final of the Metro Bank One Day Cup, in what is set to be another fascinating finale to England’s seemingly forgotten format.
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19.09.2025
Scott Currie isn’t a man prone to displays of emotion, so it was immediately clear that he had just pulled off something truly sensational.
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21.09.2025
Last hurrah: The County Championship comes to a climax this week PICTURE: Alamy SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 21 MEN’S T20 INTERNATIONAL Ireland v England (3rd T20I, Dublin, 1.30pm) WOMEN’S ONE-DAY CUP FINAL TBC v TBC (Southampton, 10.30am) WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 24 COUN...
21.09.2025
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21.09.2025
INDIA WOMEN produced a dominant performance to register a 102-run win over Australia in the second ODI of their three-match series at Mullanpur. Batting first, India were led by a spectacular innings from Smriti Mandhana, the left-hander striking 117 off...
21.09.2025
Last Monday morning, PCB chair Mohsin Naqvi, who is also the president of the Asian Cricket Council, the body that organises the Asia Cup, posted on X (formerly Twitter) that the PCB had lodged a complaint against match referee Andy Pycroft, demanding his...
21.09.2025
Champs: Prestwich won the Greater Manchester title by just two points PICTURE: Prestwich CC A FINAL DAY loss didn’t stop Sawston and Babraham from lifting the East Anglian title as they finished comfortably at the top of the table by 40 points. Their fina...
21.09.2025
A day to remember: York Hub’s boys lifted the trophy at Lord’s PICTURE: Ian Tuttle/Jed Leicester Photography Ltd THE MARYLEBONE Cricket Club Foundation hosted the girls’ and boys’ finals of its annual National Hub Competition at Lord’s. The finals were th...
21.09.2025
Hell of a season: New Farnley have enjoyed a dominant 2025 PICTURE: The Premier League Cricket Club NEW FARNLEY’S season of dominance has another line in its history book. On the national stage at the ECB Vitality Club T20 Final, they delivered again – th...
21.09.2025
African adventure: Believers CC are heading to Gambia PICTURE: Rothley Ben Geffen LONDON-BASED wandering side Believers CC, a team made up of friends who don’t want to take their cricket too seriously, are set for a tour to remember when they travel to Ba...
21.09.2025
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21.09.2025
The Aussie shotmaker, Glenn Maxwell, on a rollercoaster 12 months which began in agony, ended in ecstasy, and took in arguably the greatest ODI innings ever played along the way.
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21.09.2025
Jo Harman-McGowan introduces the eight teams competing at the showpiece event in India and Sri Lanka, which begins on September 30
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21.09.2025
September 17, Southampton Surrey Women 287 Hampshire Women 290-6 Hampshire Women won by 4 wickets Toss: Surrey Women won the toss and decided to bat Captain’s knock: Georgia Adams his a match-winning century PICTURE: Alamy HAMPSHIRE WILL face Lancashire i...
21.09.2025
September 16, Trent Bridge Lancashire Women 241-6The Blaze 236-9 Lancashire Women won by 5 runs Toss: The Blaze won the toss and decided to field Experience: Kate Cross took three wickets for Lancashire PICTURE: Alamy LANCASHIRE MAINTAINED their hold over...
21.09.2025
Getting a trophy in the cabinet in the Tier Two One Day cup final last weekend was the perfect sign off for this season before we move up into the big league next year.
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21.09.2025
Adam Hopkins speaks to DPL-winning Tridents captain Luke O’Brien about the future of the disability game Ithink mixed disability cricket is the way forward,” says England men’s mixed disability vice-captain Luke O’Brien, speaking to The Cricket Paper a fe...
21.09.2025
By Jon Culley September 15 -18, Uptonsteel County Ground, Leicester Leicestershire 459-7 dec (Patel 114, Cox 93, Evison 3-67, Garrett 2-67) Kent 17-0 (Finch 9*, Dawkins 8*, Wright 0-8, Holland 0-9) Match Drawn Toss: Kent won the toss and decided to field...
21.09.2025
By Paul Edwards September 15 -18, LEmirates Old Trafford, Manchester Middlesex 211 (de Caires 52, Geddes 52, Bailey 4-68, Aspinwall 4-62) & 99-4 (Hollman 33, Robson 21, Bailey 3-47, Shetty 1-21) Lancashire 375-5 dec (Bohannon 87, Hurst 67*, Roland-Jones 2...
21.09.2025
By Andrew Stockhausen September 15 -18, Seat Unique Stadium, Bristol Northamptonshire 206 (Zaib 76, McManus 44, M Taylor 3-48, van Buuren 3-23) & 192 (Broad 49, Zaib 37, Singh Dale 4-46, B Charlesworth 3-6) Gloucestershire 241 (J Taylor 63, van Buuren 44,...
21.09.2025
By Nigel Gardner September 15 -18, The Central Co-op County Ground, Derby Glamorgan 259 (Carlson 94, Van de Gugten 37, Reece 4-67, Dal 3-29) Derbyshire 17-0 (Donald 10*, Reece 7*, van der Gugten 0-12, Harris 0-5) Match Drawn Toss: Derbyshire won the toss...
21.09.2025
By Brian Halford September 15 -18, Edgbaston, Birmingham Essex 325-5 (Allison 98, Pepper 54*, Bamber 2-52, Gilchrist 2-70) Warwickshire (did not bat) Match Drawn Toss: Warwickshire won the toss and decided to field Officials: Mark Newell, Peter Hartley, J...
21.09.2025
By Bruce Talbot September 15 -18, The 1st Central County Ground, Hove Yorkshire 194 (Lyth 47, Bess 38, Unadkat 3-36, Hudson-Prentice 3-33) & 109-3 (Bairstow 64*, Wharton 23*, Coles 3-45, Robinson 0-4, Unadkat 0-26, Carson 0-23) Sussex 250 (Simpson 66, Als...
21.09.2025
By Mark Baldwin September 15 -18, The Kia Oval, Kennington Nottinghamshire 231 (Slater 50, McCann 34, Fisher 5-61, Atkinson 4-41) & 256 (Patterson-White 58, James 47, Fisher 6-73, Worrall 3-53) Surrey 173 (Burns 47, Lawes 22, Tongue 3-43, James 3-35) & 29...
21.09.2025
By Richard Latham September 15 -18, The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton Somerset 454-8 dec (Aldridge 180, Abell 118, Abbott 2-101, Barker 2-41) Hampshire 172 (Albert 29, Fuller 24, Leach 7-69, Vaughan 3-79) & 201-8 f/o (Washington 46, Gubbins 37,...
21.09.2025
By Thomas Ridley September 15 -18, Banks Homes Riverside, Chester-le-Street Worcestershire 591-9 dec (Roderick 151, Brookes 100, Conners 3-105, Raine 2-81) Durham 450-6 (Gay 161, Rhodes 151*, Waite 2-46, Libby 2-63) Match Drawn Toss: Durham won the toss a...
21.09.2025
It will take a miracle now, or a catastrophe, depending on your point of view.
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21.09.2025
The final week of the English domestic cricket season looms against a backdrop of arguments over player fatigue, a seemingly endless review of the structure and the culmination of the three formats all crammed into a decidedly autumnal September.
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21.09.2025
Ireland went into their T20I series versus England with an unbeaten record in the format against their neighbours – after a rained-off contest at the 2010 T20 World Cup and an Irish victory at the 2022 edition – and Paul Stirling’s side would have fancied...
21.09.2025
England’s batting performance in the T20 against South Africa at Old Trafford was simply extraordinary.
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21.09.2025
We all know Phil Salt excels in top gear like few others, his pristine ball striking and unerring shot selection clinching glory for him and his team especially in T20.
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21.09.2025
Worcestershire Rapids won a fabulous Metro Bank One Day Trophy final at Trent Bridge to condemn Hampshire to another runner’s-up spot, after they lost out to Somerset in the Vitality Blast Twenty20 last weekend.
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21.09.2025
We've done it! Henry Cullen and Matthew Waite celebrate victory over Hampshire PICTURE: Alamy WORCESTERSHIRE Rapids overcame Hampshire and the rain to win a pulsating Metro Bank One Day Cup final at Trent Bridge yesterday. Set a revised target of 188 from...
21.09.2025
Jordan Cox celebrated his return to the England side with a dominant half-century in a series-clinching T20 victory over Ireland in Malahide.
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21.09.2025
Jordan Cox admits he “really struggled” to cope with the injury blow that ruined his chance of a Test debut with England – and was never going to let his white-ball comeback go the same way.
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22.09.2025
Assistant coach Marcus Trescothick has given Rehan Ahmed a vote of confidence as the leg-spinner waits to find out if he will be part of England’s Ashes squad.
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22.09.2025
Dickie Bird achieved only moderate success in his first cricketing career, but from the moment he traded his bat for an umpire’s cap he was well on the way to becoming a towering figure in the sport’s history.
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23.09.2025
Former England captain Graham Gooch led the tributes to Dickie Bird while remembering with a smile the time he hit the beloved umpire with a straight drive.
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23.09.2025
Will Jacks has been drafted as England’s Ashes wildcard, with Harry Brook promoted to Test vice-captain ahead of the hotly anticipated winter tour.
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23.09.2025