Cricket: England eye history
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England bid to win an eighth successive Test for the first time, against South Africa.
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England, seeking a national record eighth straight Test victory, requires 142 runs to beat South Africa after dismissing the home side for 229 on day four of the opening cricket Test in Port Elizabeth.
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Michael Vaughan said he hoped to take the batting form he has shown in Zimbabwe into the long tour of South Africa, where England fly on Monday.
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England race to a 2-0 series lead with a comfortable 161-run win over Zimbabwe.
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Alec Stewart has tipped England to break a 40-year hoodoo and triumph on their Test tour of South Africa. England, who have not won a Test series in South Africa since 1964-65, arrived on Tuesday to prepare
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Sport: Cricket: A comeback to savour for the England captain at Headingley.
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Michael Vaughan&#39;s England tourists flew into South Africa on Monday, only too pleased to put the political difficulties of a series against Zimbabwe behind them and get on with playing serious cricket against a more challenging opponent
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England 139 &amp; 281-1; South Africa 332. Yesterdayâs England victory in at Kingsmead Durban had become a distinct possibility thanks to uncompromising batting from Marcus Trescothick and Andrew Strauss.
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South Africa posted 180/4 and lead England by 92 runs at lunch on the fourth day of the first Test in Port Elizabeth. Knowing the first hour of the fourth day was crucial to their hopes of chasing a modest
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Michael Vaughan has toasted England&#39;s latest strategic plan after two of the new components starred in the win over India in the NatWest Challenge.
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The details of England&#39;s one-day series in Zimbabwe have been revealed. If the ICC&#39;s racism hearing, which commences on 29 September, finds nothing untoward, there will be five one-day matches in 10 days from 26 November.
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England is looking to spin to wrest the momentum from Australia and prevent it from going 2-0 down in the Ashes series in the second Adelaide Test.
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England meet West Indies at The Oval tomorrow to decide the winners of the ICC Champions Trophy. The batsmen offer contrasting styles but both have been as effective as any players in the world in recent times.
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England look well set for victory in the first Test against South Africa after being set 142 to win in Port Elizabeth. The Proteas lost the last six wickets of their second innings for just 28 runs as Simon
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Sport: England's cricketers fail to recover from Kevin Pietersen's contentious run out.
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England's priority on the final day against Australia will be to make sure they do not get beaten when they resume on 59-1, 97 runs ahead.
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Chris Read out for a duck as England bat first in one-day tour match against an Australian Chairman's XI.