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July 22, 2019 Extras

We might ask you something. Please can we ask you whether we should ask you that something first?

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July 18, 2019 Extras

How much did England’s World Cup win raise cricket’s profile? | I Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It

2 minute readI Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It is a semi-regular feature where we ask a fella called Prince Prefab about cricket – even though he hates cricket. We are in bold. Prince Prefab is not.

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July 17, 2019 Extras

AB de Villiers spotted in an unusual place (helping get cricket back into London’s parks and commons)

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June 20, 2019 Extras

You can now watch the whole of the rest of the World Cup on Sky Sports for £34 (and you don’t need any extra equipment or anything)

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June 11, 2019 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

City Cricket Battles HTML5 game

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May 30, 2019 Extras

Let’s work out which player is going to throw a massive great wobbler at some point during this World Cup

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May 28, 2019 Match report

What was it like to go and see Hampshire v Somerset in the 2019 Royal London One-Day Cup Final?

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April 25, 2019 Extras

This is a very, very, very fine piece of work

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April 23, 2019 Match report

What was it like to watch New Zealand v South Africa at the Basin Reserve? (a match report)

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March 28, 2019 Match report

A legitimate excuse for missing Warwickshire v Kent in County Championship Division Two last year (a match report)

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