Cricket

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced that Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana and St Lucia will be the venues for the 2018 Women’s World Twenty20, the first edition of the national team tournament to be held on a standalone basis.

The International Cricket Council has today (Thursday) charged Rajan Nayer, a cricket official in Zimbabwe, with three counts of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code in the latest match-fixing episode to hit the sport.

The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has launched a new Twenty20 competition with the goal of making it one of the world’s leading leagues.

Optus Stadium, a new 60,000-seat venue in the Australian city of Perth, has been granted approval by the International Cricket Council to stage international Test, limited overs and Twenty20 matches ahead of its official opening later this month.

Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), owner of the Lord’s Ground in London and recognised as the sole authority on the Laws of Cricket, has called on the Board of Control for Cricket in India to back the sport’s ongoing bid to become part of the Olympic Games, adding that the BCCI’s reluctance is the only remaining barrier facing the efforts.

The teams that will compete in the England and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) new Twenty20 competition will not be named after cities or counties, according to The Times.

Cricket South Africa (CSA) has maintained it remains in a healthy financial position, despite having to accommodate reported losses of approximately R180m (€11.2m/$13.3m) from the failed launch of a new Twenty20 competition.

James Sutherland, the chief executive of Cricket Australia, has said there is “no evidence” that players from either side were involved in alleged plans to fix part of the third Ashes Test between Australia and England in Perth.

Former Pakistan batsman Nasir Jamshed has been handed a one-year ban by the Pakistan Cricket Board, the latest sanction issued by the PCB amid the corruption probe into the 2017 season of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) Twenty20 competition.

Sports marketing agency Two Circles has been appointed as the official data and insight partner of the 2019 Cricket World Cup, which will take place in England and Wales.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has filed a claim for $70m (€60.4m) in compensation from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for what it argues is the latter’s failure to deliver on a 2014 agreement for bilateral series between the two countries.

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has confirmed it will play the third and final Twenty20 game of its ongoing series against Pakistan in Lahore, eight years on from the incident that led to the end of top-level international cricket in the latter nation.

The board of the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed today (Friday) that it had approved the launch of a new nine-team Test league and 13-team one-day international (ODI) league in 2019 and 2020 respectively.

The inaugural season of Cricket South Africa’s (CSA) T20 Global League has been postponed for one year until November 2018 just days after the national governing body revealed that it was set to post a significant loss on the launch edition of the Twenty20 tournament.

Cricket’s key stakeholders are expected to sign off major reforms of the Test and one-day international (ODI) formats of the sport at meetings to be held later this week.

Hosting the inaugural T20 Global League could cost Cricket South Africa (CSA) up to $25m (€21.3m) following delays and difficulties in negotiating media-rights and commercial partnerships surrounding the Twenty20 tournament, it has been revealed.