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Zampa edges Australia past Bangladesh to avoid ODI whitewash as Connolly hits first ton

  • 3rd ODI: Australia, 9-277, bt Bangladesh, 5-274, by 1 wkt

  • Connolly (149) falls in late collapse; hosts win series 2-1

Cooper Connolly came of age with his maiden international ton as Australia squeaked out a nail-biting one-wicket victory over Bangladesh in the third and final ODI of their series.

Connolly defied cramps to play the innings of his life at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Sunday, smashing 149 off 133 balls as Australia narrowly avoided a whitewash by edging past Bangladesh’s five for 274 with three deliveries to spare.

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Lancs v Kent, Jordan Cox joins England mid match and more: county cricket day three – live

Updates from around the grounds after 11am (BST) start
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Time to go round the grounds on this sleepy Sunday, Lancashire making a better fist of things this morning at Stanley Park, 31-1. The sun is even straining to come out from net curtain clouds. Matt Milnes has swapped to the north end.

Harry Singh, slip catcher extraordinaire, is caught by his Kent counterpart, Ben Dawkins, off Hasan Mahmud’s first over of the day. Lancashire 19-1.

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Kane Williamson retires from New Zealand duty and ends involvement in England Test series

  • ‘I’ve given it my all in every match,’ says Black Caps legend

  • He captained World Test Championship winners in 2021

The former New Zealand captain Kane Williamson will play no further part in the Test series against England after retiring from all international cricket with immediate effect.

Williamson brings an end to a 16-year career marked by numerous accolades and by captaining his side to the title in the inaugural World Test Championship in 2021.

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Cox leaves Leicestershire reeling, Kent collapse at Lancashire: county cricket, day one – as it happened

Essex’s Jordan Cox scores 184 at Grace Road while Lancashire’s Liam Livingstone grabs five wickets against Kent

Delays at Grace Road, Trent Bridge and Blackpool, but all up and running otherwise.

Shoaib Bashir though is playing for Derbyshire up at CLS, and ex Derbyshire bowler Duanne Olivier for Durham, but no sign yet of Ben Stokes.

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Ben Stokes has been extraordinary for English cricket, it should cut him some slack | Emma John

The sport’s misguided morals mean England’s Test captain has been humbled for a meaningless infraction and kept off the stage for which he was made

There are times when it’s possible to keep sport in a sensible perspective, and then there are weeks it challenges your very sanity. This has felt like one of those.

Perhaps the US president erecting a cage‑fighting octagon in his back garden is – given the state of the world – not that crazy. After all, it’s probably less tacky than paving over the Rose Garden, or the proposed ballroom‑slash‑droneport‑slash‑triumphal‑arch. You say a World Cup referee has been denied entry to the US because he’s from Somalia? Well, really. Anyone who didn’t see that coming hasn’t been paying attention.

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Australia lose three wickets before scoring a run in historic ODI defeat to Bangladesh

  • Australia 187-8; Bangladesh 195-5 | Bangladesh win by five wickets

  • Tourists slump to series defeat with one game to play

Australia have slumped to their first ever ODI series defeat against Bangladesh after losing by five wickets in the second match of their three-game series.

After crashing to an unprecedented 0-3 from the first two overs at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka on Tuesday, Australia recovered to salvage 187-8 from 42 overs when rain forced the players off the field at Mirpur.

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England’s cricketers could face alcohol ban with Stokes captaincy still in doubt

  • Rob Key says ECB need time to consider future

  • ECB chiefs were in ‘shock’ after nightclub incident

The England and Wales Cricket Board is considering imposing a complete ban on alcohol while players are on international duty as they ponder the best response to the incident at a Chelsea nightclub that led to Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson being dropped for next week’s second Test against New Zealand, and to the stream of embarrassing stories over the past eight months.

Rob Key, the ECB’s managing director of men’s cricket, admitted on Thursday that it is now hard to say the players can show they are to be trusted to behave responsibly. The two players broke a midnight curfew and were then allegedly involved in a fight that broke out in the early hours of Monday morning, though there is no suggestion that either were active participants. “Everything we’ve looked at so far, everything we’ve found out, it looks like they were in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Key said. “They weren’t aggressive or anything, and actually it looks like they were on the receiving end of some pretty poor behaviour from other people.”

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