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WHAT A day tomorrow promises to be. What a wonderful prospect for so many cricket fans.

AT THE outset of the World Cup, everybody expected England to get to tomorrow’s final, but you have to say that New Zealand have shocked everyone.

ANOTHER Sunday awaits and another Sunday without any Super League fixtures.

AS the saying goes, blood runs thicker than water.

SO, my comeback game after eight weeks out saw me end up with 40 stitches, two facial wounds, one that went through to the bone and a trip to A&E until 2am Saturday morning.

ENGLAND have got back on track with two crucial wins against India and New Zealand and what a difference it is to have Jason Roy and Jonny Bairstow back at the top of the order.

IT’S TIME for Yorkshire to arrest their Scarborough slump.

IF England are to progress in the World Cup, they simply must start showing some cricketing intelligence.

WITNESSING Joe Westerman slap his dislocated kneecap back into place on the pitch and then casually pack down for a scrum is another reminder of the lengths rugby league players will go to to play the sport they love.

I HAVE decided I do want to carry on playing in 2020 and and I’ve spoken now to Hull FC about potentially doing just that.

LaSt year, the run to the semi-finals by Gareth Southgate’s England footballers gripped the nation – but rather passed my four-year-old son by.

THERE HAS been some talk that Alex Hales could be brought in by England as a potential World Cup replacement for Jason Roy if he does not recover from his hamstring issue – but I do not see that as the right thing to do.

IS it just me who thinks Wayne Bennett might pick an entirely English side for the Great Britain tour this autumn?

THE way to a cricket writer’s heart is through his stomach, so it was good to see that York Cricket Club got its priorities in order by laying on some of the best press food it has been my pleasure to consume during last week’s County Championship match between Yorkshire and Warwickshire.

WATCHING England’s World Cup defeat to Sri Lanka at Headingley, chasing is a big issue for us – it is in Tests and it is in one-dayers.

THE misconception with Benji Marshall is that everything he does on a rugby field is off-the-cuff and no-one else knows what he is going to do.

THE excuses that the ICC have come out with regarding the decision not to schedule reserve days in the World Cup are just laughable – I just could not stop.

NOT only am I the black sheep of my family, but also the only one who is interested in cricket.

IT takes quite something for arguably the most positive man in football to say ‘enough is enough’.