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Man banned for two years after racially abusing England’s Jofra Archer

13-01-2020 22:38

• Aucklander cannot attend any matches until 2022
• NZ Cricket: ‘We’d again like to extend our apologies to Jofra’A 28-year-old man who admitted racially abusing England’s Jofra Archer in November has been banned from attending international and domestic games in New Zealand for two years.Archer was subjected to the abuse as he walked back to the pavilion during the final day of the first Test at the Bay Oval. Shortly after the tourists were routed by an innings

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Cricket still in the dark 20 years after Hansie Cronje’s declaration | Andy Bull

13-01-2020 20:14

ICC has stepped up the fight but the proliferation of franchise cricket has made the job of stopping corruption even harder
It was, almost everyone agreed, a deft and handsome bit of cricket. Twenty years ago this week, on the fifth day of a dead Test spoiled by three days of rain, Hansie Cronje made an irresistible offer to England’s Nasser Hussain. South Africa, he said, would declare on 248 a half hour before lunch, both teams would forfeit an innings, and England would have the rest of

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Woakes, Archer and Wood bowl off for spot in Test team, says Collingwood

13-01-2020 19:00

• Three players battling to replace Anderson in England side
• ‘They’ve an opportunity to prove they should be in the team’Three pacemen and one place: that is England’s dilemma in Port Elizabeth. Someone has to replace Jimmy Anderson in the team and the only way in which the three candidates – Jofra Archer, Mark Wood and Chris Woakes – can impress is in the nets. On Monday they all steamed in; they will do the same on Wednesday in a shorter session

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Women's T20 World Cup 2020 - squad lists

13-01-2020 12:47 via bbc.co.uk

Full squad lists for the seventh edition of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup, held in Australia in February and March 2020.

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