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Cricket: Jayawardene leads Sri Lanka to easy win over England at Bristol
IF THE sell-out crowd at the County Ground in Bristol turned up excited to see England’s brave new dawn then they would have left sorely disappointed. The decision to appoint three international captains for the three different formats of the game
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Cricket: Afridi destroys Gladiators
GLOUCESTERSHIRE slipped to the bottom of the Friends Provident T20 South Group as Shahid Afridi took five wickets on his Rose Bowl debut for Hampshire. Spinners Muttiah Muralitharan (2-15) and Kane Williamson (2-18) helped reduce the Royals to 139-7.
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Cricket: England beat Australia at Bristol
THREE late wickets by Danielle Wyatt secured a 22-run win for England over Australia in the Women’s Twenty20 international at Bristol today. Australia were never far from the required run rate in pursuit of 137 to win, but they lost wickets regularly
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Football: New medical ethos is Premiership class
FOREST Green are aiming to steal a fitness march on their Blue Square Premier rivals by adopting a Premiership ethos to their medical approach. Rovers’ sports therapists Tim Grigg and Jason Ford are undertaking a full medical and biomechanical screen
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Gymnastics: Lydia scoops bronze medial at national competition
Fromeside gymnast Lydia Hayden won a bronze medal in her first ever national competition. The 12-year-old received the medal for her performance in the vault at the British Espoir Challenge Championships in Guildford. She worked hard
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Couple to put valley study results on display
A WOTTON couple have just come to the end of a two year study of a small Gloucestershire valley and will be displaying the art and photos that came out of their exploration. Lynne Clarke, a local artist, decided two years ago she wanted to paint a
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Cricket book reviews: Berry never grasped the problems of county cricket
Wisden Cricketers Almanac 2011 (148th Edition John Wisden and Co, £45) A LORD’S Long Room dinner and debate heralds the launch of each year’s Wisden. This year profanities were shouted and the Editor (Scyld Berry) announced he had been sacked. The
