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GT need 40 runs in 29 balls.

New Zealand need 77 runs in 44 balls.

KKR won by 1 run

WI Women won by 2 wickets (with 0 balls remaining)

U.A.E. won by 55 runs

Essex won by an innings and 124 runs

Day 3 - Warwickshire lead by 109 runs.

Day 3 - Kent trail by 203 runs.

Day 3 - Notts lead by 152 runs.

Durham won by 185 runs

Day 3 - Derbyshire trail by 238 runs.

Middlesex won by 6 wickets

Day 3 - Glamorgan trail by 243 runs.

Day 3 - Gloucs lead by 6 runs.

Scot Women won by 8 wickets (with 23 balls remaining)

UAE Women won by 8 wickets (with 33 balls remaining)

Uganda Women won by 35 runs

SL Women won by 63 runs

ZIM Women need 65 runs in 72 balls.

Pakistan won by 7 wickets (with 47 balls remaining)

Rajasthan Royals

Mumbai Indians

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England won by 4 wickets (with 77 balls remaining) (DLS method)

New Zealand

New Zealand won by 9 wickets (with 82 balls remaining)

England won by 137 runs

Afghanistan

Afghanistan won by 69 runs

South Africa

South Africa won by 229 runs

Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets (with 146 balls remaining)

India won by 100 runs

Australia won by 33 runs

Netherlands

England won by 160 runs

England won by 93 runs

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Fletcha Middleton, Nick Gubbins grind as Hampshire reply slowly to Warwickshire's 455

Liam Dawson continues prolific form with another five-wicket haul

Tash Farrant 94, Bryony Smith 90 as Stars beat RHFT holders Vipers

Sophia Dunkley helps seal last-over win after stuttering batting display by reigning champions

Top Run Scorers

Yashasvi Jaiswal , IND, Left-hand bat

Average 89.00

Shubman Gill , IND, Right-hand bat

Average 56.50

Zak Crawley , ENG, Right-hand bat

Average 40.70

Top Wicket Takers

Ravichandran Ashwin , IND, Right-arm offbreak

Average 24.8

Tom Hartley , ENG, Slow left-arm orthodox

Average 36.13

Kuldeep Yadav , IND, Left-arm wrist-spin

Average 20.15

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Sunrisers Hyderabad

When head and abhishek caused carnage at kotla.

With every passing game, Sunrisers' opening pair seems to be pushing the envelope further and further

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Accurate and near unplayable, the England spinner played hard on the field but always had room for a beer after a well-fought game

Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy

Freeborn, baker provide key contributions as sparks thump blaze.

Emily Arlott helps set tone with ball as visitors stumble to 135 all out

Head, Abhishek, Shahbaz, Natarajan break records and help SRH go second

Sunrisers had 300 within their sights at the start but even 266 proved to be too big for Capitals

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Tom alsop, cheteshwar pujara dig in to bolster sussex response.

Zafar Gohar in runs and wickets as Gloucestershire continue to put up stiff resistance

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Moody answers why Pant found it tough to get going

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Form or record - what matters more for selection

Jaffer, McClenaghan and Moody weigh in

What has given the SRH batters so much freedom in this IPL?

Moody talks about their set-up while McClenaghan heaps praises on Natarajan's bowling

Did Delhi Capitals lose the fizz in the chase vs SRH

Moody and McClenaghan on Capitals batters' intent in the chase

Ricardo Vasconcelos punishes Glamorgan again as Northants take charge

Opener's unbeaten 166 lays foundation for home side after Mason Crane defiance with bat

Higgins, Roland-Jones land telling blows to keep Middlesex on top

Yorkshire in trouble after conceding 87-run lead but George Hill fifty keeps hopes alive

Dom Sibley leads Surrey's ominous reply as Kent falter

Cameron Steel, Tom Lawes both take three wickets to take control in Canterbury

Marcus Harris

Harris double-hundred gives leicestershire control at derby.

Derbyshire squander more chances in the field before slumping in response to visitors' 574 for 7 dec

Afridi and Amir set up one-sided Pakistan win over New Zealand

New Zealand, playing with a second-string side with many of their top players unavailable, only put up 90 after being asked to bat first

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Tom westley underpins essex as lancashire face uphill battle.

Late Porter wicket cements another forceful display from table-toppers

County Championship Division One

Blazing bedingham ton leaves worcestershire facing uphill struggle.

Durham extend lead to 379 with five wickets standing after running through hosts with ball

Craig Overton

Craig overton's late hitting drives somerset into dominant position.

Misses out on hundred but hefty stand with Pretorius puts team on course

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Jaffer, McClenaghan and Moody analyse Punjab Kings' batting lineup

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Jaffer, Moody and McClenaghan discuss Titans' batting troubles

Fletcha Middleton, Nick Gubbins grind as Hampshire reply slowly to Warwickshire's 455

Liam Dawson continues prolific form with another five-wicket haul

Tash Farrant 94, Bryony Smith 90 as Stars beat RHFT holders Vipers

Sophia Dunkley helps seal last-over win after stuttering batting display by reigning champions

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Yashasvi Jaiswal , IND, Left-hand bat

Average 89.00

Shubman Gill , IND, Right-hand bat

Average 56.50

Zak Crawley , ENG, Right-hand bat

Average 40.70

Top Wicket Takers

Ravichandran Ashwin , IND, Right-arm offbreak

Average 24.8

Tom Hartley , ENG, Slow left-arm orthodox

Average 36.13

Kuldeep Yadav , IND, Left-arm wrist-spin

Average 20.15

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With every passing game, Sunrisers' opening pair seems to be pushing the envelope further and further

Celebrating Derek Underwood, respected opponent and an exemplary bloke

Accurate and near unplayable, the England spinner played hard on the field but always had room for a beer after a well-fought game

Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy

Freeborn, baker provide key contributions as sparks thump blaze.

Emily Arlott helps set tone with ball as visitors stumble to 135 all out

Head, Abhishek, Shahbaz, Natarajan break records and help SRH go second

Sunrisers had 300 within their sights at the start but even 266 proved to be too big for Capitals

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Tom alsop, cheteshwar pujara dig in to bolster sussex response.

Zafar Gohar in runs and wickets as Gloucestershire continue to put up stiff resistance

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Jaffer, McClenaghan and Moody weigh in

What has given the SRH batters so much freedom in this IPL?

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Did Delhi Capitals lose the fizz in the chase vs SRH

Moody and McClenaghan on Capitals batters' intent in the chase

Ricardo Vasconcelos punishes Glamorgan again as Northants take charge

Opener's unbeaten 166 lays foundation for home side after Mason Crane defiance with bat

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Dom Sibley leads Surrey's ominous reply as Kent falter

Cameron Steel, Tom Lawes both take three wickets to take control in Canterbury

Marcus Harris

Harris double-hundred gives leicestershire control at derby.

Derbyshire squander more chances in the field before slumping in response to visitors' 574 for 7 dec

Afridi and Amir set up one-sided Pakistan win over New Zealand

New Zealand, playing with a second-string side with many of their top players unavailable, only put up 90 after being asked to bat first

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Tom westley underpins essex as lancashire face uphill battle.

Late Porter wicket cements another forceful display from table-toppers

County Championship Division One

Blazing bedingham ton leaves worcestershire facing uphill struggle.

Durham extend lead to 379 with five wickets standing after running through hosts with ball

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Misses out on hundred but hefty stand with Pretorius puts team on course

Wasim Jaffer - Punjab Kings need their top order to perform

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Wasim Jaffer - Gujarat Titans havent found their No. 4

Jaffer, Moody and McClenaghan discuss Titans' batting troubles

Fletcha Middleton, Nick Gubbins grind as Hampshire reply slowly to Warwickshire's 455

Liam Dawson continues prolific form with another five-wicket haul

Tash Farrant 94, Bryony Smith 90 as Stars beat RHFT holders Vipers

Sophia Dunkley helps seal last-over win after stuttering batting display by reigning champions

Top Run Scorers

Yashasvi Jaiswal , IND, Left-hand bat

Average 89.00

Shubman Gill , IND, Right-hand bat

Average 56.50

Zak Crawley , ENG, Right-hand bat

Average 40.70

Top Wicket Takers

Ravichandran Ashwin , IND, Right-arm offbreak

Average 24.8

Tom Hartley , ENG, Slow left-arm orthodox

Average 36.13

Kuldeep Yadav , IND, Left-arm wrist-spin

Average 20.15

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England's tour of India will be their toughest challenge yet, says Steven Finn

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Steven Finn believes England's tour of India will be their toughest challenge yet and remains adamant "superhuman" James Anderson has still got plenty to give.

Finn was part of the England side that toured India 12 years ago under Alastair Cook's captaincy where spin duo Graeme Swann and Monty Panesar starred in the momentous 2-1 series triumph.

India have not lost a home Test series since England's win nine years ago and Finn believes the result of the series starting later this month will show how far the team has come under under Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum's leadership.

"There's no doubt this is the toughest challenge an England team can face," the former England seam bowler told Sky Sports . "I think it's really a true mark of where a team is at, when you go to India and you've the conditions up against you.

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Finn played alongside Anderson in the third Test in 2012 when England won by seven wickets.

More than a decade later, 41-year-old Anderson, who has 690 Test wickets, remains part of the England set up as they jet off to India.

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"Jimmy is superhuman. People have been anticipating he will retire for about seven years now and he keeps surprising people and performing," Finn said of the Lancashire seamer, who has 34 wickets and boasts an average of 29.32 from 13 Tests in India.

"He didn't have a fantastic summer last year but from knowing him as a character, he wouldn't be doing this unless he felt he could make a difference.

"A determined Jimmy Anderson is someone who will be important to England, especially making the most of the reverse swing because he is an absolute master at that.

"He would have trained hard, he has got the skills and has got the experience so I anticipate when he plays, he'll be an important cog."

England are arriving only three days before the first Test in Hyderabad on January 25 after spending 10 days at a training camp in Abu Dhabi. In 2012, they played three warm-up fixtures before the series began.

"If someone had offered Andy Flower three days preparation before a Test series, his head would have exploded," said Finn.

"There are a couple of caveats: Times have changed, clearly. We don’t even go to an Ashes and have three warm-up games now, like we did on my first tour in 2010/11. And you play those three matches as close to the intensity of a Test match as you can, which served those teams well at the time.

"We won in 2012 and we won the Ashes in 2010/11. But I do think we encounter problems with the warm-up games on that tour a bit because on that 2012 tour they played six 70mph medium pacers and no spinners and it didn’t replicate what you were going to find in the Test matches.

"It’s very hard to question this management team because every time we have over the last 18 months or so, they’ve dumbfounded everything we’ve thought of their decisions."

It will be the first Test England will play without Stuart Broad after the bowler retired from all formats of the game last year.

England have chosen to gamble with their squad by selecting the uncapped pair of Somerset off-spinner Shoaib Bashir, 20, and 24-year-old Lancashire slow left-armer Tom Hartley.

Jack Leach, along with Rehan Ahmed, will form part of England's quadruple spin attack and returns to the side after injury ruled him out of the 2023 Ashes.

Finn remains confident the two potential Test debutants will thrive under Stokes and McCullum's leadership.

"Tom Hartley and Shoaib Bashir have clearly been picked for a reason," he said. "They're both tall, they both bowl relatively quick and they should have good control because they're finger spinners.

"It's going to be tough for them. But if there is an environment where they could succeed, I think this England team is the one."

Stokes and McCullum have harnessed an enticing style of Test cricket that has led to some incredible success over the past few years and left ex-players like Finn and Graeme Swann wishing they played under this leadership.

"I was very fortunate, I played 126 games for England but you look at the way this team sets up and the way they play and me at my absolute peak, around 2012, early-2013, looks at this team and thinks you could have really been made to feel part of something," Finn reflected.

"Looking at this team from the outside and hearing how much fun it is to play for and the attitude towards going out there on the pitch, it’s one I would have loved to be involved in when I was at my peak.

"In this environment, you're encouraged to be yourself. The biggest challenge when you go and play international cricket is that you're encouraged to be someone that you’re not."

Follow England's five-Test series across Sky Sports' digital platforms with live blogs and reports.

England's Test tour of India fixtures

• Thursday January 25 - Monday January 29 2024: India vs England (First Test), Hyderabad
• Friday February 2 - Tuesday February 6 2024: India vs England (Second Test), Visakhapatnam
• Thursday February 15 - Monday February 19 2024: India vs England (Third Test), Rajkot
• Friday February 23 - Tuesday February 27 2024: India vs England (Fourth Test), Ranchi
• Thursday March 7 - Monday March 11 2024: India vs England (Fifth Test), Dharamsala

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England cricket schedule for 2023: Full list of Test, ODI and T20I fixtures in 2023

England are scheduled to play eight Tests, 15 ODIs, and 13 T20Is, as well as the 2023 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup in 2023 – below is the full England men’s cricket schedule for the next calendar year.

South Africa v England (away)

January 2023

England travel to South Africa to play three ODIs. These fixtures were meant to be played in 2020 but were postponed due to Covid.

New Zealand v England (away)

February 2023

A two Test series that will be played in Mount Maunganui and the Basin Reserve in Wellington. This will be the fourth Test series the two sides have played against each other since 2019.

Bangladesh v England (away)

A white-ball series that consists of three ODIs and three T20Is. This is England’s first trip to Bangladesh since 2016.

England v Ireland (home)

A one-off Test that comes four years after the first time the two nations played against each other in Test cricket. In the same vein as the previous fixture, this will act as a warm-up for the Ashes.

The Ashes (home)

June-July 2023

The showpiece of the summer. The series and England’s Test summer will be finished by the end of July as Australia are due to tour South Africa in August.

England v New Zealand (home)

September 2023

Three ODIs and five T20Is will be played at the back-end of September.

Ireland come to England for the second time in the summer as they play three ODIs against one another.

ODI World Cup

October-November 2023

England travel to India for the ODI World Cup where they will be hoping to win their third ICC title in four years and defend their crown from 2019.

West Indies v England

December 2023

Three ODIs and five T20Is as England return to the Caribbean for a white-ball-only series in December.

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England Men squad for India Test tour announced

Squad of 16 players named for five-Test series in India.

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The England Men's selection panel have named a 16-player squad for the five-Test series against India.

The squad includes three uncapped players at Test level with Surrey quick Gus Atkinson joined by off-spinners Tom Hartley (Lancashire) and Shoaib Bashir (Somerset).

Atkinson claimed 20 wickets in five County Championship matches last summer at an average of 20.20 as Surrey claimed back-to-back titles.

Hartley and Bashir were both part of the England Lions squad that trained in the United Arab Emirates last month. They were joined in the UAE by vice-captain Ollie Pope and Jack Leach to step up their preparations as they return to Test duty following injury.

Leicestershire’s teenage leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed returns to the Test squad after claiming a five-wicket haul on his Test debut in Pakistan last December.

England Men’s squad for tour of India

Ben Stokes (Durham – captain) Rehan Ahmed (Leicestershire) James Anderson (Lancashire) Gus Atkinson (Surrey) Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire) Shoaib Bashir (Somerset) Harry Brook (Yorkshire) Zak Crawley (Kent) Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire) Ben Foakes (Surrey) Tom Hartley (Lancashire) Jack Leach (Somerset) Ollie Pope (Surrey) Ollie Robinson (Sussex) Joe Root (Yorkshire) Mark Wood (Durham)

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The early-season trial of the ­Kookaburra ball in the County Championship has been hailed as a success by Rob Key, with the England men’s team director keen to make it a permanent fixture throughout the domestic first-class summer.

Speaking after the second round of fixtures to use the Kookaburra, Key shared his view that using a less bowler-friendly ball than the traditional Dukes had brought out the requisite skills for Test cricket by increasing the volume of spin bowling, rewarding seamers who have extra pace, and allowing batters to go big when set.

“I think it’s been fantastic,” said Key. “You see what four-day cricket is meant to be. I’ve watched quite a bit this week and seen some bloody good cricket. I would use the Kookaburra all the time. English cricket would be much better off for it.”

All nine matches in the second round ended in draws for only the third time in history, it should be noted, while Essex beating Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge in their opening ­fixture remains the one positive result from the 18 so far. The Kookaburra, which has a less ­prominent seam and goes softer earlier, has clearly been a ­significant factor.

Indeed, while batting averages have been higher in April in recent years, it has been a veritable feast to start the 2024 season, with 44.49 runs per wicket the highest figure in a month since September 1938. Ten scores of 150 or more were made in round two – a record for a single set of championship fixtures starting on the same day. Across the four Kookaburra rounds in the past two years there have been 39.54 runs scored per wicket, compared with 31.79 in 12 Dukes ball rounds in 2023.

Key said: “The weather has got in the way at times and seven of those nine matches [in round two] could have seen a result. But county cricket is meant to go four days. This week has shown it’s rewarding the right type of players. Cricket is about watching pace bowlers, spinners and really good batting. Four days is about the journey.”

After the move was recommended in 2022 by Andrew Strauss’s high performance review , this is the second season to have the Kookaburra deployed. Two rounds last year have increased to four this summer, with the Kookaburra returning for rounds 12 and 13 in September. Key pushed for half of the season but, despite agreement at a meeting of director’s of cricket, the counties came back with a compromise.

The deployment of spin has increased. Slow bowlers sent down 37% of deliveries in the first two rounds, compared with 17% in the equivalent rounds last year. Key has noted early succes

Kasey Aldridge, with eight wickets at the Oval for Somerset, and Zaman Akhter, with six for ­Gloucestershire against Yorkshire, including Joe Root and Harry Brook, were among the seamers to catch Key’s eye in the ­latest round, having “run in with a bit of pace”. The England team ­director noted Sam Cook’s 10-wicket match for Essex at Trent Bridge, a welcome namecheck for a player who has 199 championship wickets at 16.84 since 2019.

“The pitches are slow this time of year but watching medium pacers is a waste of time,” said Key. “Teams need to find quicker bowlers or ones who will force a wicket. You can’t just keep running up bowling at 75mph. And in terms of those guys who are not express, you really work out who can bowl. Sam Cook, that was seriously impressive what he did.”

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It has been particularly hard going for Middlesex, who have shipped 1,203 runs for just 11 wickets in two matches. At Edgbaston, where the groundsman, Gary Barwell, says he ­produced the same pitch in terms of grass and rolling as round two last year, a couple of England hopefuls in Matt Potts (none for 106 from 23 overs) and Brydon Carse (none for 128 from 19) struggled as Warwickshire racked up 698 for three declared against Durham.

Key said: “That looked a turgid [slow] pitch but [Potts and Carse] are much better equipped for international cricket than if they bowled on English snakepits with a Dukes ball moving all over the place. The best bowlers come from the flattest pitches.

“ Why do we think in India their batters come into the Test side averaging 70 [in the Ranji Trophy]? Do you think they’re playing with a little nibbly Dukes ball where it’s doing all sorts? What do we want to be? I want us to be the best team in the world for a generation; this will be one way to do that.”

Potts, who underlined the difference by shutting down the Edgbaston match with an unbeaten 149 as nightwatchman, said he had no issues with further use of the Kookaburra but did make the point that spring conditions, chiefly moist outfields, negate one of the skills the Australian ball will teach bowlers: reverse swing.

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April 15, 2024

The Women’s Selection Committee has picked the Team India (Senior Women) squad for the upcoming tour of Bangladesh comprising five T20Is.

India’s squad for 5 T20Is against Bangladesh:  Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Smriti Mandhana (VC), Shafali Verma, Dayalan Hemalatha, Sajana Sajeevan, Richa Ghosh (wk), Yastika Bhatia (wk), Radha Yadav, Deepti Sharma, Pooja Vastrakar, Amanjot Kaur, Shreyanka Patil, Saika Ishaque, Asha Sobhana, Renuka Singh Thakur, Titas Sadhu.

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Sunil gavaskar nearly lost his calm on air as he reckoned that the “bowlers are suffering” amid the rising 200-plus totals in ipl..

IPL 2024 has been a batter's season. In just 35 matches so far, 15 times has the 200-run marl been breached, five of which which went past 250. Sunrisers Hyderabad, who have been the most explosive batting unit, have scored three of those totals, one of which was on display at the Arun Jaitley Stadium against Delhi Capitals on Saturday. Despite the batting carnages, while South Africa legend Dale Steyn sees it as an opportunity for bowlers to stand out with economical shows, former India captain Sunil Gavaskar sent a fiery message to BCCI calling for protection of bowlers.

On Saturday, SRH clobbered 266/7 in 20 overs, of which 125 runs were scored in the powerplay with Travis Head leading the charge with his 16-ball 50 en route to 89 off just 32 balls.

Amid the batting assault from SRH, who hold the record for the two highest team totals in IPL history, both notched up this season, Gavaskar was left vexed on air as he made a suggestion to the BCCI on how the bowlers can be protected.

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Speaking to fellow India legend Anjum Chopra, Gavaskar said that that boundary ropes can be pushed a little more back, especially at smaller venues, as he pointed out the gap between the advertisement board and the fence where where the stands begin.

“I wouldn't suggest any changes to a cricket bat because they are all within regulations, but I have been saying this for a long time, increase the size of the boundary at every ground. Look at this ground today, there is enough space to take it back a little more by a couple of metres. It can often prove to be the difference between a catch and a sixer. You can push that LED or advertisement boards even further so that the boundary rope can go back by 2-3 metres and that will make a difference. Otherwise, the bowlers are the only ones who will suffer,” he said.

Nearly losing his calm, the former India batter reckoned that while the power-hitting in T20 cricket might be exciting to watch, it tends to get boring eventually, implying at the lack of contest between batters and bowlers.

“What we have been seeing in T20 cricket over the last few days is that this is batting like the coach tells in the nets, 'This is the last round,' and everybody starts swinging their bat around bang, bang whether they get out or not. It's enjoyable to a little extent, but after that it gets...not so exciting. I wanted to use a stronger word, but no,” he added.

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