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• The IPL failed by ignoring stark warning signs of India’s Covid crisis | Anand Vasu

  04-05-2021 21:00
  
  The IPL should have halted the competition earlier or made alternative plans but their timing was badly amissIt’s better to leave people asking why you have stopped something rather than what took you so long. This is the rule of thumb applied to people retiring from public life, sports people mainly but occasionally politicians, singers, actors and others similarly in the limelight.Timing is everything. And the Indian Premier League, which was suspended for the season on Tuesday, comprehe
  
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• England players face battle to get home from India amid Covid and IPL ‘chaos’

  04-05-2021 15:38
  
  ECB ‘working’ on bringing players back after IPL suspendedReturnees will be required to quarantine for ten days English cricketers in India for the Indian Premier League (IPL) described “chaos” as the competition was abandoned on Tuesday with the country suffering from a dire coronavirus outbreak which has now burst through several teams’ bubbles.With the action over for the foreseeable future – there is some talk of a resumption, perhaps in September, though
  
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• Ireland v Scotland T20 series: Irish women to play T20 series in Stormont

  04-05-2021 14:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ireland women will play their first games since September 2019 when they take on Scotland in a T20 series at Stormont in late May.
  
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• Pakistan Cricket Board to introduce new parental support policy for players

  04-05-2021 13:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Pakistan Cricket Board becomes the latest governing body to design a support policy for players who become parents.
  
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• The Spin | Women’s cricket is in fine shape but where are the game’s lost leaders?

  04-05-2021 12:33
  
  There is unprecedented visibility now but the sport misses the female leaders pushed away when the ECB took over in 1998Almost three decades ago, on 1 August 1993, a 17-year-old Claire Taylor made her way through the Grace Gates for the first time. That day, she watched an England team led by Karen Smithies defeat New Zealand by 67 runs in the Women’s World Cup final. The players wore skirts, they were all amateurs who had to take time off work to compete, and the idea of prize money was u
  
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• County cricket talking points: the new format is delivering a thrilling season

  04-05-2021 12:16
  
  It remains to be seen what the second phase of this strange campaign will bring, but the first phase has been a huge successBy Gary Naylor for the 99.94 Cricket BlogIn Group One, only five points separate Warwickshire, Durham, Worcestershire, Nottinghamshire and Essex (with Derbyshire not out of the picture either). Whatever the second phase of this strangest of County Championships brings us, the first phase has been a success beyond anyone’s expectations. Whether Warwickshire’s two
  
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• Australian cricketers in limbo after IPL suspended amid India’s deepening Covid crisis

  04-05-2021 10:57
  
  Players unable to return home due to government’s travel banSteve Smith and Pat Cummins among those in isolationIPL Twenty20 cricket tournament indefinitely suspendedAustralia’s IPL cricketers have been left in limbo after the tournament was suspended in response to India’s Covid-19 crisis.More than 30 players, coaches and staff in India are unable to fly home after the Australian government imposed a travel ban and threatened citizens who attempt to return with a hefty fine or
  
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• IPL cricket tournament suspended amid worsening Covid crisis in India

  04-05-2021 10:15
  
  IPL chairman Brijesh Patel makes announcement News followed postponement of second IPL game The Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket tournament has been indefinitely suspended following the Covid-19 crisis in the country, IPL chairman Brijesh Patel told Reuters on Tuesday.The news followed the announcement that a second Indian Premier League game was set to be postponed after staffers with the Chennai Super Kings tested positive to the coronavirus amid a nationwide surge of cases. Relat
  
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• Former cricketer Michael Slater says Scott Morrison has ‘blood on his hands’ over India travel ban

  04-05-2021 01:40
  
  Cricket commentator says the Coalition policy of stopping Australians from returning home is a ‘disgrace’Former Test cricketer turned commentator Michael Slater has accused Australia’s prime minister, Scott Morrison, of having “blood on his hands” as the Covid-19 crisis escalates in India.Slater, who has been in India to commentate on the IPL, said in a Twitter post on Monday night that the government’s policy of temporarily preventing Australians from returni
  
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