Fifteen Zimbabwe players have been awarded central contracts
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Zimbabwe Cricket have given central contracts to 15 players for the 2014-15 season.
Fifteen Zimbabwe players awarded central contracts
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BCB keen on third season of BPL
“We are looking to arrange the tournament between November 2014 and January 2015”
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Despite the match-fixing scandal that took place in the second edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) have announced that they are keen on hosting a third season of the tournament.
‘There’s still time left for the World Cup and I am keen to be a part of the squad’, says Praveen Kumar
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“Frankly, I didn’t expect to go unsold”
After being snubbed during the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction, pace bowler Praveen Kumar has announced that he has set his sights on representing India at the 2015 International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
‘It’s probably now more of an actual Indian Premier League’, says Brendon McCullum
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“Their strategies have changed somewhat”
New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum has announced that the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchises do not appear as desperate to buy all the international stars that appear in the auction as they used to be.
Warner, Smith and Bailey given green light to play opening round of BBL
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Warner, Smith and Bailey will play the opening round of the BBL
Australia’s batting trio of David Warner, Steven Smith and George Bailey have all been given the green light by Cricket Australia team performance manager Pat Howard to represent their respective franchises in the opening round of the Big Bash League (BBL), which gets underway on December 20.
Cricket South Africa planning ‘festival of cricket’ in Cape Town
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The festival is likely to feature a whole range of South African sport stars
Cricket South Africa have revealed that they are planning to host a festival of cricket to replace the New Year’s Test at Newlands in Cape Town in January 2014.
Cricket South Africa implement quota for black African players
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Ntini is the only black African to have represented South Africa in more than 100 Test matches
Cricket South Africa have implemented a quota for black African players, whereby all major franchises must now have at least one black player on the field at all times.
Current and former West Indian players to mentor Papua New Guinea cricketers
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“Papua New Guinea is a cricket-mad nation and our team has historically always looked up to West Indies cricketers”
West Indies ODI captain Dwayne Bravo has signed an agreement to be a development mentor and ambassador to Cricket Papua New Guinea.
England Sri Lanka Test series moved from May to June
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England have only lost one Test match since the May Tests began in 2000
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has abandoned its traditional May Test matches, which has been going on since 2000, after deciding to move the national team’s two-Test series against Sri Lanka to June 2014 instead.
‘I am very, very tired’, reveals Chris Gayle
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“No more cricket for me until the next three months”
Flamboyant West Indies opening batsman Chris Gayle has revealed that he is “very, very tired” after a hectic season of domestic and international cricket.