Buzzin Cricket

England moved to 89 without loss in response to New Zealand’s 277 all out on day three of the first Test at Lord’s. There was only a brief flurry of action in the morning session before the rain set in for the day.
Spectators hung around grimly until play was finally called off at 5.15.
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Brendon McCullum hit a sparkling run-a-ball 97 to rescue New Zealand on a rain-affected opening day of the first Test at Lord’s.
The weather put paid to any cricket in the morning session, but after lunch Michael Vaughan won the toss and put the visitors in. They were soon in trouble, getting to 105-5 before [...]

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Surrey’s Mark Ramprakash goes into today’s county championship game against Hampshire looking to score his 100th first-class century.
Ramprakash, 38, has scored an astonishing 48 centuries in the seven years since he moved to Surrey from Middlesex.  He has scored over 2000 runs, averaging over 100, in each of the last two English summers.
If Ramprakash achieves [...]

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Ryan Sidebottom has been named as England’s Vodafone player of the year.
Sidebottom took 16 wickets in last summer’s series against the West Indies, and was then named man of the series at the one-day tournament in Sri Lanka.
His fantastic year finished with a brilliant series in New Zealand.  Sidebottom took 24 wickets at just 17.08 [...]

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England’s selectors will announce the squad for the first test against New Zealand this Sunday.  The match is at Lord’s from next Thursday.
Will they choose Flintoff?  He has looked dangerous with the ball, but can’t score a run for Lancashire.  Is he truly fully fit?  Collingwood has a shoulder injury, and is another, along with [...]

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