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Posting Date Archive - 11/08/2021

The Timeline: Southern Brave Men v Welsh Fire Men

NICK HOWSON looks at the key moments from the clash at The Ageas Bowl

The Analysis: Welsh Fire Men vs Southern Brave Men

SHIVAM PATHAK: Southern Brave demonstrated their experience with both bat and ball tonight, with Quinton de Kock and James Vince both adding half-centuries as the hosts cruised to victory

The Analysis: Welsh Fire's tribulations are an uncomfortable part of the process

NICK HOWSON: A woeful bowling and fielding display allowed Southern Brave to saunter to the highest score in the women's Hundred. But it shouldn't be forgotten that this is a learning experience for everyone

The Timeline: Southern Brave Women v Welsh Fire Women: Visitors become first side to qualify for final

Smriti Mandhana and Dani Wyatt both recorded half-centuries as Southern Brave ran away with the game before they came into bowl

Royal London Review: Episode 18 - It's all happening

The Cricketer has partnered with County Cricket Natters to produce a series of special podcasts during the 2021 Royal London Cup

Daryn Smit comes out of retirement for injury-hit Derbyshire

The South African, who played for the county between 2017 and 2019, retired at the end of that season; his final game for the club was the T20 Blast semi-final at Edgbaston against Essex in the summer before the coronavirus pandemic struck

England lose Stuart Broad for rest of India Test series

Scans have revealed the 35-year-old has suffered a calf tear and is out of the remainder of the summer

Shardul Thakur ruled out of second England Test

A left hamstring injury has ruled the 29-year-old out of the Lord's clash, forcing India into at least one change

It's time for a red-ball fightback

HUW TURBERVILL: If the main summer series is against India or Australia, a programme of red-ball cricket in the month leading up to it simply has to be organised

A week to remember for Essex's Feroze Khushi

This season he had played in just two Vitality Blast games before bursting back onto the scene with a hundred against Durham on his List A debut followed by 77 against Sussex in his second Royal London Cup innings

Kent-Gloucestershire Royal London clash to go ahead after "extensive review of Covid cases"

Gloucestershire were forced to cancel their game on Sunday against Middlesex after a Covid outbreak in their squad left the county unable to field a team, with players in isolation

Liam Livingstone to captain Birmingham Phoenix in Moeen Ali absence

Livingstone is the fifth-highest run-scorer in The Hundred and takes over with his team top of the table with two games to go in the tournament’s group stage

Ravi Bopara signs new Sussex T20 deal, officially ending red-ball career

Only four players worldwide – Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Bravo, Chris Gayle and Shoaib Malik – have played more career T20 matches, with Bopara having racked up 389 appearances since playing in the inaugural Twenty20 Cup in 2003

England and India docked World Test Championship points for slow over-rates

As well as a points deduction, both sides were fined 40 per cent of their match fees by match referee Chris Broad

England call up Saqib Mahmood as cover

The Lancashire seamer’s call-up as cover follows calf and quad niggles to Stuart Broad and James Anderson

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