Cricket

Proposals to include cricket in the 2022 edition of multi-sport event the Commonwealth Games have been dropped, according to ESPNcricinfo.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has today (Wednesday) welcomed the five-year ban handed out to national team player Sharjeel Khan for his role in a spot-fixing scandal connected to the Pakistan Super League (PSL) Twenty20 competition, stating it illustrates its “zero tolerance” approach against corrupt practices.

India is set for a new international-standard cricket stadium, with a 25,000-seat venue having been lined up near the city of Agartala.

Edgbaston became the first English county cricket ground to host a day/night Test match last week when England played the West Indies. Ben Cronin spoke to Warwickshire County Cricket Club's chief executive Neil Snowball to find out if the new format had been of commercial benefit to the county.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has today (Monday) confirmed it will stage a Twenty20 series against a World XI in Lahore next month, ahead of the potential for further games in the country against Sri Lanka and the West Indies.

The Committee of Administrators, established earlier this year by India’s Supreme Court to oversee the implementation of new governance rules at the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), has asked for three of the sporting governing body’s office bearers to be removed.

Najam Sethi has targeted the return of top-level international cricket to Pakistan after being elected as the new chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).

Cricket Australia (CA) and the Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA) have today (Thursday) agreed terms on a new pay deal that is set to avert the threat of arbitration proceedings and concern over the status of the showpiece Ashes series against England.

Justice RM Lodha, the architect of a major reform process planned for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), has hit out at the governing body’s latest move in the process, stating it removes the “vital organs” from his plan.

Cricket Australia (CA) chief executive James Sutherland has today (Thursday) opened up to the prospect of independent arbitration in order to lift the body’s pay dispute with the Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA), adding that the prospect of short-term contracts could also be on the cards.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has promoted Hemang Amin to the role of chief operating officer of the Indian Premier League Twenty20 competition.

Cricket West Indies (CWI) has offered an olive branch in the long-running dispute with some of its star players by reaching an agreement for a “temporary amnesty” that will allow them to return to the fold for one-day internationals.

The IMG agency has agreed a deal to extend its event management rights contract with Twenty20 cricket competition the Indian Premier League (IPL), according to the Ahmedabad Mirror.

Former South Africa national team player Lonwabo Tsotsobe, a one-time No.1 bowler in the one-day international format, has been handed an eight-year ban by Cricket South Africa (CSA) as a long-running investigation into a match-fixing scandal concerning the 2015 season of domestic Twenty20 competition the T20 Challenge Series wraps up.

Cricket Australia (CA) has hit out after the Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA) today (Thursday) confirmed that its members would boycott a forthcoming tour of South Africa as the dispute over a new pay deal continues to rumble on.

The Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA) has said its members will boycott a forthcoming tour of the national team’s development squad to South Africa unless a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is struck with Cricket Australia (CA).

Australian cricket is set to enter lockout mode after the sport’s national governing body said today (Friday) that a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with players will not be agreed.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has outlined its plans for reform of the governance of the sport in the United States following the expulsion of the USA Cricket Association (USACA), while it has taken further steps to return international cricket to Pakistan and has appointed Imran Khawaja as deputy chairman.