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Other sport stories

• Brown is ‘stunned’ at call-up for Britain

  RACHEL Brown has admitted she is ‘stunned’ after she was yesterday named in the Great Britain women’s football squad for the Olympics. read more

• Talking Sport: Olsson can take pride

  WHATEVER Martin Olsson’s future at Blackburn Rovers, seeing him play at Euro 2012 seemed an awful long way from the night when I accidentally left him stranded without a team bus at Morecambe’s Christie Park. read more

• Cricket Marathon: Double ton of fun for Mudasser

  MARATHON cricketers Sankesh Waghray, Josh Stevenson, Mudasser Panchbhaya and Sabir Patel are approaching the halfway stage of their 150-hour match at Loughborough – but one of them managed to smile through the weariness. read more

• Claret Trippier to turn to cricket at Padiham

  CLARETS star Kieran Trippier will swap his Burnley football boots for cricket whites and will be the star attraction as Padiham stage their annual ladies day and charity fundraiser on Sunday. read more

• Talking Cricket: Technology may not be the answer

  TECHNOLOGY is on the lips of most of the pundits just at the moment with those who profess to know all there is to know about football insisting that now is the time to change the face of the game and introduce aids for the officials. read more

• Craven League: Rain is the big winner

  The rain was the big winner as the Mewies Solicitors Craven League was hit hard by the weather at the weekend – and the two locals who did manage to beat the downpours may have wished they hadn’t. read more

• Palace Shield: Holden's eight in vain

  PAUL Holden claimed eight wickets but Longridge were still beaten in the Palace Shield Premier Division as their clash at Freckleton avoided the rain. read more

• League team aiming for glory

  STAR batsman Peter Dibb is relishing the chance of helping the Houldsworth Solicitors Ribblesdale League into a final when the representative side shoot for a place in the final of the Reader’s Lancashire Inter League Knockout Competition on Sunday week. read more

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