Cricket

Cricket hitWACA forced to slash costs following CA funding cut

The Western Australian Cricket Association will cut spending by a third and slash staff numbers as it prepares for revenue reductions in the coming year.

John Townsend

TOUGH TIMESShock as selection chief axed as cash crisis cuts deep

Queensland Cricket staff have been left dismayed that one of their longest serving and most respected employees, Justin Sternes, falls victim to cuts, as organisation pushes CA over details of game’s financial reality.

Robert Craddock

Trade secretsCarey offers advice to Crows on travel hubs

Adelaide has turned to frequent flyer Alex Carey for travel survival hacks before entering an AFL quarantine hub in the Gold Coast from round three.

Richard Earle

Savage cutsHigh performance hit hard as Bulls slash jobs

Queensland Cricket’s workforce will be reduced by just under a third despite the fact they are yet to settle on a new funding agreement with Cricket Australia.

Robert Craddock

Unwanted centuryMore than 100 cricket jobs lost around Australia

Cricket Victoria recently cut 36 per cent of its workforce, while the SACA and Cricket Tasmania also announced job losses amid the financial fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rob Forsaith

SHINE ONWax works if no spit - but ICC against ‘external substances’

Suggestions a ban on using salvia to shine balls be dealt with by players using wax instead has been shot down by ICC committee chair Anil Kumble who says it would undermine efforts to curb ball-tampering.

Rob Forsaith

CricketICC rejects wax because of tampering focus

The ICC's cricket committee has discussed allowing an artificial wax to shine the ball, but has decided it isn't viable given a recent tampering crackdown.

Rob Forsaith

Decision timeTubby tells cricket admins to make a call

A crucial meeting that could shape the landscape of Australian cricket this summer is set to take place, and Mark Taylor has urged global administrators to not waste the chance.

Rob Forsaith

D-DayCalls grow for T20 World Cup decision to come this week

Cricket Australia chief executive Kevin Roberts has flagged that a call on the tournament, which is slated to run from October 18 until November 15 in Australia, may potentially not come until August.

Rob Forsaith

What’s the BuzzRoosters wooed star with a bag full of cash

Former rugby league star reveals the day he could not say no to a brown paper bag full of cash, Greg ‘Fat Cat’ Ritchie’s amazing weight loss and the Panthers ask fans for funds. IT’S SAINT, SINNER, SHOOSH

Phil Rothfield

Pitch to blameWarne’s dire warning for Aussie spin future

Cricket great Shane Warne says every side should have to pick a spinner in Sheffield Shield cricket as he fears the standard of spin bowling in Australia is “going downhill fast”.

Changing landscapeAFL fixtures a tricky ever-changing business

It seems the AFL is going to allow the SA teams to play each other before they head into the proposed hub on the Gold Coast - so why not West Coast and Freo?

Karl Langdon

TURF WARFAREGrounds for complaint as winter sports barge in on cricket

Grassroot football and cricket leagues face a competition for precious space as coronavirus lockdown measures are released and winter and summer sports collide in spring, with delicate compromise needed.

Ben Horne

Hold thisCricket umps can’t be good blokes to bowlers anymore

Umpires may wear gloves to handle the ball and refuse to take a bowler’s hat whenever cricket returns from its COVID-19 stoppage, while dressing-room beers are set to remain on ice.

Rob Forsaith

GOOD AREASWarnie’s radical plans to help bowlers in saliva-free cricket

Weighted balls; more grass on pitches; fewer overs between new balls? Shane Warne has plenty of ideas to mitigate the outlawing of shining cricket balls with saliva. But will the ICC listen?

Fiona Byrne

CricketCOVID guidelines to alter cricket customs

Umpires wearing gloves to inspect the ball is among changes that cricket administrators will likely implement when the sport returns amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rob Forsaith

Darwin CricketConway returns for Tahs

GUN wicketkeeper Isaac Conway has come back to the Territory to captain Darwin Premier Grade club Waratah for the 2020 season.

NATHANIEL CHAMBERS

OptimistAustralia’s plans for shock England cricket tour

With the $300 million tour of India looking increasingly likely to go ahead, Cricket Australia boss Kevin Roberts is hoping to have Justin Langer’s team in England come September.

Ben Horne

Cricket’s returnCricket Australia boss all but confirms Indian tour

India a go and Australia’s doomed series against England regains momentum as sport’s national powerbrokers meet.

Ben Horne

Historic helpMCC offers members discount — with a catch

MCC members have been offered a 30 per cent discount on their memberships — but not this season — with those struggling to make ends meet facing a long wait to re-join if they cancel their memberships.

Michael Randall

Positive signsCummins boosted by BCCI's IPL vision

Plans are afoot to stage an Indian Premier League this year and Pat Cummins is upbeat it will happen, suggesting it could be an ideal end to cricket's shutdown.

Rob Forsaith - AAP

Lives ruined‘I f**ked up’: Drug-fuelled tale of fallen Windies star

He had the silkiest hands in cricket. But David Murray’s life fell apart after he made a $100,000 call to turn his back on the West Indies and tour apartheid South Africa in 1983.

Ashley Gray

CricketCummins boosted by BCCI's IPL vision

Plans are afoot to stage an Indian Premier League this year and Pat Cummins is upbeat it will happen, suggesting it could be an ideal end to cricket's shutdown.

Rob Forsaith

CricketCA boss backs Indian summer to begin

Cricket Australia chief executive Kevin Roberts says staff are preparing for India’s arrival to play a Test and One Day series against the Aussies later this year – with Adelaide Oval still the frontrunner to host multiple fixtures.

Richard Earle