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USA umpire added to ICC Elite Panel

The decision was announced by Lola Firpo, spokesperson for the governing body.

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World XI of all-rounders: As elite as they make them

Most XIs, real or fantasy, consist mostly of specialist batsmen and bowlers with one or two all-rounders and a wicketkeeper-batsman if they are available.

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Lancashire and Sussex get Waqared

Michael Jones looks back to two matches in 1997, in which Waqar took a combined 15 wickets for 42 in two consecutive innings — and put Glamorgan on their way to the County Championship title.

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England’s history of collapsing, part 2

Any team can have a collapse, but only England have turned it into a tradition.

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Ed Balls: MP, cricketer, dancer, Twitter phenomenon

Ed Balls, then recently appointed as the UK’s Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, accidentally tweeted his own name — and the internet has celebrated it as Ed Balls Day ever since.

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How much would Don Bradman have averaged had he played in India?

Australia did not play their first Test series in India until some years after Don Bradman’s retirement.

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Archaeologists unearth cricket’s ancient origins

Excavations at a site in the south of England have revealed prehistoric artefacts suggesting cricket may be many millennia older than previously thought. Michael Jones reports on the discovery.

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England’s history of collapsing: Part 1

England ended their tour of India by imploding spectacularly, losing eight wickets for eight runs as Yuzvendra Chahal and Jasprit Bumrah left them looking clueless.

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Centuries, centuries everywhere

Here is a chart of those who, as the number of countries hosting Tests increased, scored centuries in all those possible at the time.

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An XI of the Christmas-born

Is being born on Christmas Day a good thing?

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