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David Bedingham makes Worcestershire pay

Bedingham's barrage has earned his team an excellent opportunity to achieve their first victory of the season | George Dobell

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'Do you think you might be the last of that generation that put red-ball cricket first?' 🤔

🎙️ Cameron Ponsonby
🎙️ George Dobell
🎙️ Nick Howson
🎙️ Kemar Roach

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Rob Lynch, who is CEO at the PCA, has been appointed as Director of Cricket & Operations, to succeed Jamie Cox, by the MCC.

Just collating these now. Jeez, they're brutal...

'It sounds like there's some counties disappointed which is a shame. But it's also pretty cool.'

Heather Knight believes disappointment among counties who missed out on a tier-one women's team is evidence of a sea change | George Dobell

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'We have to get out and try to find the talent. More to the point, we have to try and find talent in areas that we haven't normally looked for it.'

The ECB are launching a nationwide tape ball competition focused on urban communities | George Dobell

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Piece on the tier-one announcements, which have lifted some uncertainty ahead of a complex summer and plenty of upheaval:

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Wisden 2024 Wisden published today! The 'historic fixtures' Marylebone Cricket Club, writes Dr Michael Collins (UCL) - co-author of #ICECreport - 'typically have a dismal attendance and arguably present the worst images of elitism to the wider public'. (p. 136) #LevellingUp

🚨 NEW PODCAST! 🚨

🎙️ Cameron Ponsonby
🎙️ George Dobell
🎙️ Nick Howson
🎙️ Kemar Roach

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We will be interviewing ECB chief executive Richard Gould next week ⏤ what would you like us to ask him? 🤔

Questions for Kemar Roach?

It is true that, without the Kookaburra experiment, spinners would have bowled far fewer overs in this round. And that matters because, even if there isn't much assistance out there, the volume of overs will help their development | George Dobell

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7-2 leg side field at Edgbaston.

So Warwickshire CCC 🏏 everyone keeps saying flat pitch’s first 2 pitches 2023 second 2 2024 same readings same grass same rolling. only difference the Ball kookaburra,people don’t realise how a ball changes a pitch 2023 score (1480/55)2024 (1981/31) George Dobell Martin Emmerson

'While you could argue the Kookaburra is exposing what we suspected - that many bowlers in the English game are overly reliant upon the Dukes ball - it is doing it in sledgehammer fashion' | George Dobell

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Warwickshire have declared: 698-3. The bowling figures
can't be shown til after the watershed.

Incredible score @ lunch on day 2 @ Edgbaston: Warwickshire 662-3. The second highest score in their first-class history. All the top 3 - Davies, Yates and Rhodes made 150+ - and poor Callum Parkinson has conceded 200. Durham go into the 3rd round without a bowling bonus point.