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July 26, 2019 England / Ireland

Which Somerset spin bowler should England pick as a top order batsman?

England v Ireland, only Test, day two

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July 25, 2019 England / Ireland

Jonathan Agnew was ‘astonished’ that England were bowled out for 85 by Ireland. Were you?

England v Ireland, only Test, day one

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July 16, 2019 Afghanistan / Australia / Bangladesh / England / Features / India / New Zealand / Pakistan / South Africa / Sri Lanka / West Indies

13 proper highlights from the 2019 Cricket World Cup (and none are from the final because the final was a whole thing all of its own)

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June 29, 2019 Afghanistan / Pakistan

Mohammad Nabi’s wicket celebration is our favourite wicket celebration

2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 36, Afghanistan v Pakistan

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June 22, 2019 Afghanistan

Let’s try and put Afghanistan’s rate of improvement into perspective

In the second series of Stranger Things, Dustin hears a noise in a bin. Ignoring the spooky music and his own fear, he goes and opens it. Next thing we see is Dustin depositing a small obese newt thing into the tank he normally keeps his tortoise in. He feeds

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June 18, 2019 Afghanistan / England

What was Eoin Morgan aiming for?

2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 24, Afghanistan v England

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June 5, 2019 Afghanistan / Sri Lanka

Let’s look at the four phases of the greatest moment of this World Cup so far and work out who had the biggest role in it

2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 7, Afghanistan v Sri Lanka

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June 1, 2019 Afghanistan / Australia

Steve Smith: the most despicable cricketer in the entire world

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March 14, 2019 Afghanistan / Ireland

Looks like you’ll be able to watch the Afghanistan v Ireland Test on YouTube

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June 15, 2018 Afghanistan / Extras

Afghanistan haven’t scored too many runs, but that’s not really the point at this stage, is it?

Remember Out of the Ashes? It’s a documentary about Afghanistan’s journey “from war to the World Cup”. We reviewed it here and thought it was rather wonderful. It strikes us that it could do with an update because Afghanistan are a Test team now. This is a highly astonishing state

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