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• Cricket players' union starts legal challenge to ICC over image rights

  22-12-2020 22:00
  
  ‘Players are not receiving a fair share’ of money made by ICC
  Union unhappy with use in fantasy cricket games and filmsThe international cricket players’ union has begun legal proceedings against the International Cricket Council in a row over image rights, claiming that they do not receive a “fair share”.The Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations (Fica), which represents the majority of players from the Test nations aside from India and Pakistan
  
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• Big Bash League: Sydney Thunder beat Perth Scorchers by seven wickets

  22-12-2020 13:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Captain Callum Ferguson's unbeaten 61 leads Sydney Thunder to a seven-wicket win over Perth Scorchers in the Big Bash League in Canberra.
  
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• The Spin | End-of-year cricket awards for a shambolic 2020

  22-12-2020 11:30
  
  From the superb Stuart Broad and Monty Panesar to the less celebrated Boris Johnson and Cricket South AfricaSpending a fortnight locked in a quarantine hotel with a 10-month-old, as I learned in Perth this month, can inspire any number of strange decisions. For me, this included going back to read the earliest editions of this column. And before going any further, yes, I’m well aware it was this type of behaviour that made me so popular in high school. But it was all with a purpose in mind
  
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• Australia's Steve Smith feared he would miss first Test against India with injury

  22-12-2020 10:01
  
  Former Test captain confident back issue is manageableReady to build on MCG record in the Boxing Day TestSteve Smith is confident a nagging back complaint will not prevent him building on his imperious MCG record in the Boxing Day Test against India.But the former captain admits he initially feared he would miss the series opener in Adelaide when he was forced to withdraw from a nets session two days prior. Related: Don Bradman's first baggy green sells to Kurt Cobain fan for $450,000Related: Sy
  
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• Zak Crawley: The making of an England batsman

  22-12-2020 07:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Sport looks back at the innings of 267 - the 10th highest score in English Test history - that Zak Crawley made against Pakistan in August, aged 22.
  
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• Don Bradman's first baggy green sells to Kurt Cobain fan for $450,000

  22-12-2020 06:27
  
  Australian great’s 1928 Test cap failed to sell at auctionPrice still second-highest ever behind Warne’s $1m baggyAustralian businessman Peter Freedman has purchased Sir Donald Bradman’s first baggy green cap for $450,000 after it failed to sell at auction last week.While the second-highest price ever paid for a piece of cricket memorabilia, behind only the $1,007,500 paid at auction for Shane Warne’s Test cap earlier this year, it is not the seven-figure sum auctioneers
  
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