Cricket

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Cricket Australia has confirmed that next year's Big Bash League will feature an additional eight matches, but the national governing body has ruled out the possibility of more franchises being added to the Twenty20 competition in the immediate future.

Ben Cronin, global lead of network client solutions, Publicis Media Sport & Entertainment, explains why financial brands are rethinking their sponsorship game plan.

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has hired Englishman Johnny Grave, currently commercial director of the Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA) in the UK, as its new chief executive.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has confirmed that the second edition of its Super League (PSL) Twenty20 franchise competition will conclude in Lahore as part of ongoing efforts to return high-level cricket to the country.

The United Arab Emirates will host the inaugural edition of a new Twenty20 cricket tournament later this month, the Emirates Cricket Board has announced.

Anurag Thakur and Ajay Shirke have been removed as the president and secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) by the country’s Supreme Court after failing to implement a series of governance reforms.

Cricket South Africa (CSA) has imposed a two-year ban on former national team batsman Alviro Petersen in the latest punishment stemming from a match-fixing scandal concerning the 2015 season of domestic Twenty20 competition the T20 Challenge Series.

There are hopes that a new partnership between the International Cricket Council and CSM Sport & Entertainment will help developing cricket nations to create their own income streams. Greg Pitcher reports.

The England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has taken another step towards embracing day-night cricket by announcing that a full round of floodlit County Championship fixtures will take place on June 26 next year.

Debbie Hockley has been appointed as the new president of New Zealand Cricket, becoming the first female to hold the role in the body’s 122-year history.

Cricket South Africa (CSA) is planning to revamp its domestic Twenty20 competition and introduce a model by which games would be staged outside the country, according to a senior executive.

US-based businessman Jignesh Pandya has struck a deal to acquire the St Lucia Zouks cricket franchise, which plays in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) Twenty20 competition.

Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland has declared the governing body’s support for a revamp of the international cricket schedule, which would lead to fewer matches across Test, one-day international and Twenty20 series.

Pakistan Super League (PSL) chairman Najam Sethi has said the final of the second edition of the Twenty20 competition will be staged in Lahore as part of ongoing efforts to return top-level cricket to the country.

The World Twenty20 will feature a standalone women’s event for the first time in its history when Australia hosts the national team tournament in 2020, in one of a number of decisions made by the International Cricket Council (ICC) at a board meeting.