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ASK GEORGE! If you can't enjoy that, what can you enjoy?

WATCH: Chief correspondent GEORGE DOBELL answers readers' questions at the end of day one of the first Ashes Test between England and Australia at Edgbaston

Big nights are for big game players and unsurprisingly, Sam Curran delivered

SAM DALLING AT TAUNTON: Curran bats, he bowls, he hustles, he bustles. Tonight, he silenced the Taunton crowd, both physically and with the occasional post-wicket gesture. Surrey were handsome victors

Double England World Cup winner Adil Rashid awarded MBE in King's Birthday Honours List

The legspinner accepts the honour for services to cricket. Alongside a stellar playing career, he runs the Adil Rashid Cricket Academy in Bradford and supports the Overseas Plastic Surgery charity

Feroze Khushi stars as Essex gung-ho approach pays dividends

Academy graduate Khushi crashed a 37-ball 61 as Essex comfortably chased down 175, despite losing three early wickets thanks to Jamie McIlroy's 4 for 36

Nerveless Haider Ali rescues tie for Derbyshire at Durham

Brydon Carse returned from injury to top score for the home side with a career-best 58 as Durham posted 178 from their 20 overs, although they were to rue a batting collapse, losing their final five wickets for only 17 runs

Steven Croft scores maiden T20 century as Lancashire beat Northamptonshire

Croft took the attack to the Steelbacks, blasting seven sixes and five fours in his 101 to rescue Lancashire from 25 for 3

Yorkshire make it six in a row with eight-wicket win over Leicestershire

Only once before, in 2012, had the Vikings won six successive games - and this run has put them in great shape for quarter-finals qualification having lost their first three North Group games

Dan Mousley and Jacob Bethell power Birmingham Bears to victory over Worcestershire

Mousley's unbeaten 49 was his T20 best this summer while Bethell's 32 not out was his highest in the competition

Tammy Beaumont hits double hundred as England enjoy near-perfect Ashes warmup

England compiled an enormous total of 611 for 7 against Australia A at Derby, while England A impressed against Australia at Leicester

Worcestershire retain Usama Mir as replacement for Michael Bracewell

Mir, who provided short-term cover for Mitchell Santner earlier in the Blast, has picked up five wickets and scored at a strike rate above 200 in three outings for the Rapids

Lanka Premier League 2023 squads: Full player list for all teams

Find out who is playing for your team in this year's Lanka Premier League

16/06/2023 | The Cricketer | Global Game |

WATCH: Harry Brook dismissed in extraordinary circumstances in first Ashes Test

The Yorkshireman was removed after being bowled by Nathan Lyon for 32 during a helter-skelter afternoon at Edgbaston

England and Australia pay tribute to Nottingham attack victims ahead of men's Ashes opener

Players and supporters at Edgbaston observe a moment of silence before the start of play in memory of Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates, who were fatally stabbed on Tuesday (June 13)

Notts agree new deal with Ben Martindale until 2027

The academy graduate, who has kicked on since making his senior debut last summer, has penned a three-year at Trent Bridge

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