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  A NEW season means new hope and new ambition as clubs dream of a glorious few sun-drenched months, huge crowds and silverware galore.
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  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
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           <title>Matt Donlan cricket column: Ticket price should mirror Aussies</title>
           
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  WATCHING Chris Gayle smash the England bowling attack around the Oval yesterday was a sight to behold as he played one of
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           <title>Rain is a pain - but the chat is good</title>
           
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  ANOTHER Saturday afternoon spent staring out of the windows of a cricket pavilion watching the rain fall on a sodden field.
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  ENGLAND’S cricket team is developing a reputation as being extremely good – but lacking in off-the-field class.
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           <title>Talking Cricket: Pro shows mean the leagues stay strong</title>
           
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  SOME people insist there is no place in modern league cricket for the professionals.
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           <title>Talking Cricket: The Cup retains it's magic</title>
           
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  THE Lancashire League’s historic Worsley Cup competition is known throughout cricket as a tournament to savour.
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           <title>Matt Donlan cricket column: It's a funny old game, whatever the weather</title>
           
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  IT’S a damp day at the end of a wet week and suddenly a ball pops and raps a batsman on the knuckles – and some players seem to think the world is going to end.
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           <title>Talking Cricket: Any change must be thought through</title>
           
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           <title>Clitheroe Cobras in the UAE: Day Three and our chief jester courts fame</title>
           
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           <title>Clitheroe Cobras in the UAE: Day Two and it's a case of spin when you're winning</title>
           
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           <title>The year has not been a bad vintage</title>
           
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  SO that was the season that was. There have been highs and there have been lows – but I reckon that in years to come people will look back at 2011 as one of the good ones.
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           <title>Talking Cricket: Strauss switch is nothing but a farce</title>
           
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  CRICKET is too often mocked. Players in Test matches come off when the slightest spit of rain falls – and when it fines up they go and have their tea.
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           <title>Plaque’s the way I like it – but statue of Lord Learie is now due</title>
           
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  IT was a nice touch of Pendle Council to finally honour the legendary Lord Learie Constantine by unveiling a blue plaque on his old house in Nelson...but it is the least they could do.
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           <title>Talking Cricket: Give the county stars a shot in the league</title>
           
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  SURREY batsman Michael Brown returned to his roots on Saturday as he turned out for Burnley CC in the Lancashire League against Rishton.
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           <title>Sports Blog: World Cup shows the leagues are strong</title>
           
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  THE lament is a familiar one, league cricket is dying. It ain't what it used to be. We don't see any good pros anymore.
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           <title>TALKING CRICKET: Red Rose mistakes can't be made again</title>
           
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  LANCASHIRE got the green light for their development of Old Trafford yesterday - and it is good news in the fact that the famous old ground can continue to stage international cricket.
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           <title>Talking Cricket Column: Gulf in class is a worry</title>
           
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  CRICKET’S World Cup is well underway - and already the gulf between the big boys and the rest is being highlighted.
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           <title>The Ashes Blog: Get set for a cracker</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  THERE cannot be a cricket fan not feeling the tension and excitement ahead of the fourth Ashes Test...and bring it on.
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           <title>Talking Cricket: Squad proves league still rules</title>
           
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  THE harbingers of doom say the Lancashire League is on its last legs. They say, almost with a joy in their voices, that the most famous cricket league on the planet is struggling and the days of
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           <title>Talking Cricket: It's not quite the full Monty</title>
           
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  IT’S 61 days until the start of the Ashes and yesterday’s announcement of the England squad, an announcement made with all the sort of pomp and false sense of over importance normally associated
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           <title>The eyes have it as Lancashire fans travel</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[Matt Donlan's Talking Cricket column: An interesting day was had at Liverpool last week as Lancashire won what eventually turned out to be a thrilling County Championship game against Hampshire.]]></description>
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  CRICKET fans around the globe will all have felt the pain of deep sadness in the pits of their stomachs on Sunday morning when they heard the news of the allegations against the Pakistan cricket
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  SHOCK horror, Lord’s may not be full for the opening day of the Test match with Pakistan tomorrow – and I couldn’t be happier.
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  SO here we go yet again, another competition that Lancashire will not be winning this season after the capitulation at Somerset the other night in the CB40.
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  SUNDAY’S Worsley Cup final proved just what everyone knows already – the quality of the profes-sionals in the Lancashire League are what make the game special.
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