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Monty Panesar and Olly Stone prepare for village cricket

Monty Panesar and Charlie Rogers at Carrow Road wearing Norwich City FC scarfs
Monty Panesar was made to feel at home when he joined Great Witchingham team-mate Charlie Rogers at Carrow Road last weekend

Former England bowler Monty Panesar has joked that his upcoming season playing village cricket could reignite his international career.

The club also signed Nottinghamshire CCC’s Olly Stone and Adelaide Strikers batter Jake Weatherald.

“It’s going to be exciting,” said Panesar.

“Hopefully I’m going to get the groundsman to produce some turning wickets for me.

“When I’m doing my speaking engagements all across the country, everyone wants to know ‘where is Great Witchingham?’ and I’m telling them it’s near Norwich

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Goodwin to return for Socceroos in Canberra

Returning Socceroo Craig Goodwin plans to again contribute to Harry Souttar’s fond memories of Canberra on Tuesday night against Lebanon.

Souttar scored twice on debut for Australia in 2019 at GIO Stadium in a 5-0 win over Nepal.

It was dead-ball specialist Goodwin who delivered the corner that giant teammate headed home for his first goal in what was a magnificent start to the Scotland-born centre-back’s Socceroos career.

“That was a nice little memory so hopefully we can recreate that on Tuesday night,” said Goodwin, who is set to return after missing Australia’s 2-0 win last Thursday, also against Lebanon,

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Bolton Wanderers fan column: What now after Derby County?

By Liam Hatton

There was a feeling moments before Kane Wilson headed Derby in front which felt like something unfortunate would happen for Bolton Wanderers.

Maybe it was just me who went into the game expecting the worst, but Pride Park has not been a happy hunting ground in recent times. The Rams have had the best of Bolton on a number of occasions, with last Saturday’s display of a disappointing defeat in their bid for an automatic slot.

At one point Ian Evatt’s men had three games in hand on Portsmouth and could have taken over first spot, now

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Swansea City: US owners invest further £2m into club

Swansea City's Swansea.com Stadium
Swansea City currently sits 15th in the Championship

Swansea City’s US owners have invested a further £2m into the Championship club.

It means the club has now received around £18m worth of funding via share issues since last summer.

The deal will see the club’s majority shareholders increase their stake in the club as a result.

Swansea’s Supporters’ Trust – whose shareholding now stands at 9.9%, of which 5% is protected – welcomed the move.

The Trust, minority shareholder with a seat on the club’s board, says: “It is very likely that the club will continue to require investment beyond

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David Sullivan: West Ham owner opposes introduction of independent football regulator

Fans protest outside of Stamford Bridge
Football supporters across the country protested after the announcement of the European Super League in 2021

West Ham United owner David Sullivan says the Premier League “may cease” to be the world’s top division if an independent regulator is introduced.

Such a regulator would be brought in if the Football Governance Bill – which had its first reading in Parliament on Tuesday – was made law.

The UK government announced its plans to appoint a regulator following a fan-led review into football in 2022.

But Sullivan said a regulator is only needed “when things are going badly”.

One of the

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F1: Toto Wolff backs wife Susie after she took legal action over conflict of interest inquiry

Toto Wolff said wife Susie “has always followed through on her convictions and values” after she began legal action against motorsport’s governing body.

Susie Wolff, the F1 Academy series director, has lodged a case against the FIA ​​following its conflict of interest inquiry into her last year.

The inquiry was launched in December but ended two days later.

“Susie is a strong woman and she doesn’t take anything from anyone,” said Wolff.

The Mercedes team principal added: “She has always followed through on her convictions and values, and that is the case here.

“She is very unemotional about it, and

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Green, Maxwell suffer loss with Bengaluru in IPL launch

Green, who has been traded from Mumbai Indians in one of the IPL’s most high-profile moves, opened his account promisingly with his new franchise, making 18 with the bat before his 2-27 off three overs briefly threatened the holders’ comfortable run chase on Friday.

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Romania v Northern Ireland: O’Neill positive but expects ‘a couple of difficult nights’

Conor Bradley, Shea Charles, Aaron Donnelly and Shayne Lavery in Northern Ireland training
The average number of caps in Michael O’Neill’s squad is just 17.5, with an average age of 24.4
Venues: Bucharest & Glasgow Dates: Friday, 22 March & Tuesday, 26 March Kick-offs: 19:45 GMT
Romania coverage: Listen live on BBC Sounds and Radio Ulster with live text commentary on the BBC Sport website; Highlights on BBC One NI from 22:40 GMT and on BBC iPlayer
Scotland coverage: Watch live on BBC Two NI & BBC iPlayer with live radio & text commentary on BBC Sounds, Radio Ulster & the BBC Sport website

“There will maybe be a couple of difficult

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