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June 29, 2022 Uncategorized

A cold Sciver, a handy Kapp and Alice Davidson-Richards

2 minute readRemember when being five down for not many runs was a bad thing? Whatever happened to that? Two weeks ago, England’s men’s team were 93-4 in pursuit of 299 to win. Somewhere around a minute later, they’d won the match – in large part thanks to Jonny Bairstow, who was

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