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Snake halts play during Twenty20 match in Sri Lanka
The Lanka Premier League match between Galle Titans and Dambulla Aura had to be stopped when players noticed an unwelcome visitor during the latter’s innings.
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Cricket’s Big Three in talks to launch women’s Champions League
Australia, India and England are in high-level talks to launch a women’s Twenty20 Champions League as soon as next year following the success of the first Women’s Premier League in India.
- by Daniel Brettig
Game on: How Mike Baird, Australia’s new cricket boss, is stepping up to the crease
The former NSW premier will need all his leadership skills to confront the sport’s challenges.
- by Anne Hyland
‘It was his day’: Unbeaten Jaiswal hits record-breaking IPL half-century
Young Rajasthan Royals left-hander Yashasvi Jaiswal put the game out of reach when he smashed 26 runs off the first over he faced, and didn’t let up from there.
Turn Test cricket into once-a-year events like Wimbledon: IPL team owner
Manoj Badale, the lead owner of Adam Zampa’s Rajasthan Royals has warned that the amount of Test cricket scheduled will be reduced in the years ahead.
- by Tim Wigmore
Tim David smashes hat-trick of sixes in final over to seal IPL victory
Mumbai Indians needed 17 runs in the final over to beat Rajasthan Royals. The Australian big hitter took just three balls to complete the win in the league’s 1000th game.
- by Ian Chadband
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Saudi Arabia seeks to set up world’s richest cricket competition
Saudi Arabia is wooing IPL owners and India’s cricket board with the goal of creating a Twenty20 league that only the IPL could rival for financial scale.
- by Daniel Brettig
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Test cricket
Cricket’s longest form faces its toughest Test yet
Corporatisation has reduced the status of Test matches to the point where Australian cricketers may soon have to seek permission from IPL owners to don the Baggy Green.
- The Herald's View
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The raid on Australia’s best players that could redefine international cricket
Senior Australian cricketers are being targeted by Indian Premier League giants to sign multi-club deals worth up to $7.5 million in a sweeping disruption of the global cricket economy.
- by Daniel Brettig
Five sixes off final five balls seals incredible IPL win
Needing 28 with five deliveries remaining, Rinku Singh steered the Kolkata Knight Riders to an unlikely victory with one of the great T20 individual feats.
- by Ian Chadband
Facebook and Amazon help launch Finch, Stoinis into USA cricket’s orbit
Cricket is finally heading for the big stage in the United States, with more marquee announcements expected in the coming weeks.
- by Malcolm Conn