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The England and Wales Cricket Board has appointed former national selector Ed Smith to its board as a non-executive director.Smith, who played for Middlesex and Kent and earned three Test caps, will join the ECB on 1 October when his one-year term as MCC President ends. He served as England men’s selector from 2018 to 2021, during which they won the World Cup on home soil in 2019. The ECB said that Smith’s role “will provide scrutiny and challenge, looking at the long-term strategy and governance of the whole game, including performance cricket”. Smith’s appointment comes after England’s miserable Ashes…

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Meanwhile the latest figures show, at the start of this year, there were more than 48,000 cases where somebody had waited more than eight weeks for a diagnostic test, which is 10,000 more than when Miles set his target of reducing this number to zero.

Pidcock, who is famed in cycling for being a ‘demon descender’ – following his 2022 Tour de France stage win on Alpe d’Huez, in which he reached speeds of 100km/h – described the crash in March as “like one of these horror crashes you see… I [was] lucky I could talk on the radio”.The double Olympic mountain bike champion had been having a good season until the crash, narrowly losing out on victory at the Milan-San Remo monument race to Tadej Pogacar. Pidcock is riding the Tour of the Alps in preparation for Sunday’s monument Liege-Bastogne-Liege, before taking on the…

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