Cricket

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.

The England national cricket team will host its first ever day-night Test match next year, the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has confirmed.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has opted to reject some of the Supreme Court's key recommendations aimed at major reform of the powerful organisation, a move that could lead to sanctions from the country's highest judicial body.

The USA Cricket Association (USACA) has signed a licensing agreement with sports development company Global Sports Ventures that it says will lead to the development of a franchise-based Twenty20 league in the country.

The International Cricket Council has entered into a partnership with the CSM Sport & Entertainment division of marketing services group Chime Communications, with a view to enhancing the commercial performance of its associate and affiliate members.

Colin Graves, the chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), has said that discussions with players and club members will be crucial in honing plans to introduce a new domestic eight-team Twenty20 competition.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has today (Wednesday) been forced to withdraw plans for a two-tier system for the Test format of the sport, amid reported opposition from four full members.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has become the latest governing body to embrace the concept of day-night Tests by announcing that it will stage a game in Dubai during the West Indies’ tour of the United Arab Emirates.