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Somerset village cricket team banned for enjoying itself too much

might need a bail outCricketers in the Somerset village of Charlton Pilchered, who finished bottom of their district league last summer, will not be permitted to enter the competition this year.

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Posted: Mar 26th, 2013
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Geoff Boycott’s grandmother called up to Indian cricket team

grandson insists she's better than Tendulkar‘About bloody time too,’ said her grandson, Sir Geoffrey Boycott. ‘I’ve been saying all summer that my grandmother is a better batsman than this lot.’

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Posted: Dec 17th, 2012
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Ricky Ponting sad to miss out on losing Ashes again

‘Losing the Ashes has been part of my life for nearly a decade now and I’m really going to miss it. When I watch the new captain grudgingly admitting that they’ve been outplayed, I’ll be thinking ‘that used to be me’.’ lamented the beady-eyed Australian batsman.

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Posted: Nov 29th, 2012
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Hoodies win toss and choose to loot first

On what are looking to be green, fresh conditions, the Hoodies are expected to open with last year’s highly successful and in-form Tottenham pairing of stone-throwers and police car fire-bombers.

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Posted: Jul 12th, 2012
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Duckworth Lewis Method to replace extra time at Euro 2012

Henri Fernandez, Head of Euro 2012, explained the new criteria for calculating a winner: ‘Basically, the modal number of yards wrongly gained in second-half throw-ins is totalled and multiplied by their notional compound divorce settlements with WAGS. This is then divided by the square root of accumulated gobbing distances…’

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Posted: Jun 18th, 2012
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