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• Michael Vaughan: ECB should consider scrapping overseas players to save money

  27-04-2020 22:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The ECB should consider temporarily scrapping overseas players in the County Championship to cut costs, says ex-England captain Michael Vaughan.
  
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• Australia-only cricket series would turn disaster into something bold | Adam Collins

  27-04-2020 19:30
  
  If Covid-19 prevents international play this summer a series between Australia and the A team has the potential to provide pulsating sportThe final question we pondered when wrapping up The Greatest Season That Was podcast series by looking back at the Australia A summer of 1994-95 was whether it could return in the modern day. Our consensus: not with how scheduling has evolved across the quarter-century since, especially with the diminishing footprint of one-day international fare. But little c
  
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• ECB advised to allow private investment to boost the Hundred

  27-04-2020 19:00
  
  Consultancy group urges board to sell stakes in franchises
  ECB told to consider opening up to Indian market
  The England and Wales Cricket Board has been urged to open up the Hundred to private investment – including equity stakes for counties and even Indian Premier League team owners – in response to the coronavirus crisis.An ECB board meeting on Wednesday will discuss the tournament’s postponement until next summer but Tom Harrison, the chief executive, has countered talk of
  
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• Pakistan's Umar Akmal gets three-year ban for anti-corruption code breaches

  27-04-2020 16:13
  
  Akmal did not tell national board about corrupt approaches‘This is a timely reminder to all,’ says PCB security chiefUmar Akmal has been banned from all cricket for three years after the Pakistan batsman failed to report details of corrupt approaches made to him in two separate incidents.The 29-year-old, who has played in 16 Tests, 121 one-day internationals and 84 Twenty20s, was charged by the Pakistan Cricket Board for two breaches of its anti-corruption code, having been provision
  
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• Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal receives three-year ban for corruption

  27-04-2020 16:13
  
  Akmal failed to report corrupt approaches‘This is a timely reminder to all,’ says PCBUmar Akmal has been handed a three-year ban from all cricket after failing to report details of corrupt approaches made to the Pakistan batsman in two separate incidents.The 29-year-old, who has played in 16 Tests, 121 one-day internationals and 84 Twenty20s, was charged by the Pakistan Cricket Board for two breaches of its anti-corruption code, having been provisionally suspended before the start of
  
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• Counties 'face £85m revenue loss' if no 2020 season, says new report

  27-04-2020 15:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Counties face an £85m loss of revenue if "the very real possibility" of no cricket this summer becomes a reality, says a new report.
  
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• Umar Akmal: Pakistan batsman banned for three years over corruption charges

  27-04-2020 15:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal is banned from all cricket for three years for failing to report corrupt approaches.
  
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• England internationals in lockdown learning to love their sport again

  27-04-2020 14:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  We talk to three England internationals - Heather Knight, Jill Scott and Lily Owsley - about life in lockdown.
  
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• Yorkshire cancel deals of Keshav Maharaj, Ravichandran Ashwin and Nicholas Pooran

  27-04-2020 13:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Yorkshire cancel the deals of overseas signings Keshav Maharaj, Ravichandran Ashwin and Nicholas Pooran because of coronavirus.
  
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• Ben Stokes hails NHS workers as the real heroes for battling coronavirus on the frontline

  27-04-2020 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  England cricket superstar Ben Stokes has praised all NHS workers involved in fighting coronavirus every day.
  
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