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England must start with a bang in Champions Trophy opener against Australia in Jos Buttler’s last throw of the dice, writes RICHARD GIBSON

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Captain Jos Buttler gets to work in the nets in Lahore as England prepare to face Australia

After promising to smile more and relinquishing the wicketkeeper’s gloves, the decision to drop himself back down the order appears to be a last throw of the dice in Jos Buttler’s bid to revitalise his England captaincy. Sporting a fresh hair cut on Friday in explaining the logic behind the latest tinkering, he did his … Read more

Ice therapy, cutting out the greens and a ‘chewing trainer’: How I lost 5 pounds in 7 days on the ‘midlife MOT’ Austrian retreat that Sachin Tendulkar, Naomi Campbell and Rebel Wilson all swear by, reveals RICHARD GIBSON

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As someone who routinely donned disguises to avoid off-the-scale adulation, it’s no wonder the solitude of a week’s reset at the Vivamayr clinic appeals to Sachin Tendulkar. When you are the most famous sportsman India has produced, and still arguably the most well-known living Indian, me time is on ration, but it was here in … Read more