Category: CRICKET
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Cricket Australia’s quest to unearth EAP talent
Melbourne, April 18, 2013: The ICC’s East Asia-Pacific (EAP) regional office, in partnership with Cricket Australia, will next week begin a talent scouting expedition around the East Asia-Pacific region to identify five potential future stars. Two scouts from Cricket Australia will spend a fortnight travelling through Fiji, Vanuatu and PNG conducting tests on both male…
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Cricket: ICC reaction to CAS decisions
Dubai, April 17, 2013: ICC Chief Executive Mr David Richardson has issued the following statement after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected appeals by Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif against the decisions of the independent Anti-Corruption Tribunal, which had been imposed under the ICC’s Anti-Corruption Code in February 2011. “The ICC notes and…
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Results from ICC and IDI Board meetings
Dubai, April 17, 2013: The ICC and IDI Boards held the second of their four meetings of 2013 in Dubai on 16 and 17 April. The results of those meetings include: Targeted Assistance and Performance Programme Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has been allocated US$422,000 from the ICC’s Targeted Assistance and Performance Programme (TAPP),which is aimed…
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Appeal Rejected OF Asif and Salman
Lausanne, April 17, 2013: The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed the appeals filed by the Pakistani cricket players Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt against the decisions taken by the International Cricket Council Tribunal on 5 February 2011 in which Mr Asif received seven years ineligibility (two suspended) and Mr Butt ten years…
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Ticketek appointed ticketing provider
Melbourne – Australia, April 15, 2013: ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 organisers have appointed Ticketek as the ticketing provider for the International Cricket Council’s flagship tournament, to be jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand in February and March 2015. The ICC Cricket World Cup will be the biggest sporting event in the world in…
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Nigeria reigns supreme with victory over Vanuatu
Botswana, April 14, 2013: A 150-run fifth wicket partnership between captain Adekunle Adegbola and Oladotun Olatunji set up a comfortable six-wicket victory for Nigeria over Vanuatu in the rain-affected final of Pepsi ICC World Cricket League (WCL) Division 7 in Botswana on Saturday. Adegbola and Olatunji finished unbeaten on 51 and 67, respectively, as Nigeria…
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ICC Champions Trophy 2013 tickets back on sale
Dubai, April 07, 2013: Cricket fans will be pleased to hear that a further allocation of tickets for all the matches of the ICC Champions Trophy 2013 will be released at 1030 (BST) on Monday 8 April. Tickets, including coveted games such as India v Pakistan, England v Australia, semi-finals and the final will be…
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Glittering launch of logo for ICC World 20-20
Dhaka, April 06, 2013: Inspired by the unique painted rickshaws, which pack the streets of the Bangladesh cities, the logo for the ICC World Twenty20 2014 was unveiled on a star-studded evening in Dhaka tonight. At a glittering gala shown live on television in Bangladesh – and in the presence of the International Cricket Council…
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ICC introduces new ‘No ball’ playing condition
Dubai, April 04, 2013: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has introduced a new playing condition for Tests, One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and Twenty20 Internationals (T20s) that instructs the umpires to call ‘No ball’ whenever a bowler breaks the non-striker’s wicket during the act of delivery. This playing condition will come into effect on 30 April, and…
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Sri Lanka puts No.1 T20I ranking on the line
Dubai, Mar 29, 2013: Sri Lanka will stake its number-one ranking on the Reliance ICC T20I Championship Table when it plays Bangladesh on Sunday in a one-off Twenty20 International at Pallekele International Cricket Stadium. Sri Lanka leads ninth-ranked Bangladesh by 47 ratings points and this gap means Sri Lanka is favourite to win the one-off…