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Ensuring balanced volume of cricket is a challenge: Lorgat

Players have been complaining about crammed schedules for quite some while and endorsing their concern, ICC's new CEO Haroon Lorgat admitted that ensuring a balanced volume of cricket remains a major challenge for the game's world governing body.

Ensuring balanced volume of cricket is a challenge

ICC's new CEO Haroon Lorgat admitted that ensuring a balanced volume of cricket remains a major challenge for the game's world governing body.

Lorgat calls for balanced cricket calendar

Endorsing players' concerns about the crammed international schedule, ICC CEO Haroon Lorgat has admitted that ensuring a balanced calendar remains a major challenge for world cricket's governing body. ''I think it is a challenge that one has to be aware of and if it is well managed there would not be any problem,'' Lorgat told 'Gulf News'.

Lorgat calls for balanced cricket calendar

Dubai, Jul 2: Endorsing players' concerns about the crammed international schedule, ICC CEO Haroon Lorgat has admitted that ensuring a balanced calendar remains a major challenge for world cricket's governing body.

Cricket eyes Twenty20 for 2020 Olympics

BEIJING (Agencies): As players from around the world backed former Australia wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist's call for Twenty20 cricket to become an Olympic sport, officials said it would take another 12 years at least for it to get on the Games roster. But a spokesman for the International Cricket Council, the global governing body, said that if cricket decided it was intent on pursuing Olympic ambitions, then Cricket was part of the Olympics just once, in 1900, but last year it was again recognised as an Olympic sport -- the first step towards full admission. Gilchrist, in his column for Indian daily the Deccan Chronicle, said Monday: "It doesn't matter where the 2020 Olympic Games are held but many of us who've experienced international Twenty20 cricket and the IPL (Indian Premier League) are convinced that cricket should bid to become a

Sports ministry grants RO20,000 to OCC for promoting cricket

MUSCAT — The Ministry of Sports Affairs has allotted RO20,000 to Oman Cricket Club for the promotion of cricket in the Sultanate of Oman. The funds would be made available in two parts of RO10,000 per year. The funds would be utilised for the development of cricket, for the pre-tour expenses of the national team, development of Omani cricketers, for the development of women’s cricket and cricket in Omani schools.

Prima Group and Sri Lanka Cricket to uplift Junior Cricket

CRICKET: The Prima Group, in partnership with Sri Lanka Cricket announced its sponsorship of the Prima Champions Cup 2008. Under 15 district Cricket Tournament, for the second consecutive year. This year’s tournament which is powered by Prima Nutrition is titled ‘Bringing the Champions out’.

Cricket Australia seeks mediation course in racism abuse cases

Peter Young, general manager of Public Affairs for Cricket Australia leaves the ICC Code of Conduct appeal hearing of Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh at the Federal Court in Adelaide, in January. Cricket Australia is currently lobbying the International Cricket Council for a mediation phase in cases of racial vilification in international cricket, reports said Thursday.

TCA youth cricket festival launched

The Technical Cricket Academy (TCA) has moved one step closer in its goal to make the game of cricket a favourite among the younger population of Antigua and Barbuda with the launching of its inaugural Youth Cricket Festival last Saturday at the Dredgers’ Cricket Ground.

Scotiabank presents One Day International Cricket Tri-Series

TORONTO, Aug. 15 /CNW/ - Scotiabank is pleased to announce that it is the title sponsor of the One Day International Cricket Tri-Series beginning Monday, August 18th in King City. The tournament, hosted by Cricket Canada and the Canadian National Cricket team, will feature the national cricket teams of the West Indies and Bermuda.

CRICKET: English cricket set for Twenty20 double

English cricket is to feature two Twenty20 competitions as part of a new structure for the domestic game starting in 2010, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has announced.

Lorgat: Politics will be kept out of cricket

Dubai: Haroon Lorgat, the new International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive remarked that his organisation will keep politics out of the sport.

STAR Cricket to Telecast Twenty20 Between India and England Womens Cricket Teams

STAR Cricket will telecast the only Twenty20 match between the Indian eves and the English Women’s cricket team on September 05, 2008. The Indian team led by Mithali Raj will try and reverse the flow of form in the only Twenty20 match. The Indian teams lags 0-2 in the 5 match ODI series.

TrueCrypt - Free Opensource on the Fly Disk Encryption Tool

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Cricket Australia backs inaugural 20-20 Champions League in India

Cricket AustraliaMelbourne, July 31: Cricket Australia has supported the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) move to host the inaugural Twenty20 Champions League in the last week September and the first week of October.

Cricket Australia seeks mediation course in racism abuse cases

Cricket Australia is lobbying the International Cricket Council for a mediation phase in cases of racial vilification in international cricket, reports said Thursday.

CRICKET: Australia seek mediation course in racism abuse cases

Cricket Australia is lobbying the International Cricket Council for a mediation phase in cases of racial vilification in international cricket, reports said Thursday.

Twenty20 is just business, says Sri Lanka chief and former Test player star

SRI Lanka's legendary former captain Arjuna Ranatungatoday urged players to preserve Test cricket in the face of the challenge posed by the lucrative Twenty20 format. Ranatunga, who led his country to their only World Cup title in 1996, also said the players needed to focus more on Tests. "You need Twenty20 to get more money, but ultimately you have to realise that Test cricket is the major thing," said Ranatunga, who is also the chairman of Sri Lanka Cricket. "It's very important to preserve Test cricket. When it comes to Twenty20, it's more like a business as far as I am concerned." His comments came a few days after his country's cricketers asked for next year's hastily-arranged Test tour of England to be rescheduled as the dates clashed with the Indian Premier League (IPL).

Cricket South Africa statement on ICC-Zimbabwe issue

Cricket South Africa’s President, Norman Arendse, SC, released a statement on Friday after the International Cricket Council’s resolution on the Zimbabwe Cricket issue was announced in Dubai.

CRICKET: Holding quits ICC over Oval change

Cricket officials who hoped this week might end with one sort of resignation from the International Cricket Council (ICC) had to cope with another as Michael Holding quit its cricket committee.

Briefs-Bangladesh cricket rights go for $56.88m (Reuters)

Cricket - Bangladeshi cricket television and marketing rights up until 2012 have been bought for $56.88 million, Bangladesh Cricket Board officials said on Monday.

Briefs-Bangladesh cricket rights go for $56.88m

Cricket - Bangladeshi cricket television and marketing rights up until 2012 have been bought for $56.88 million, Bangladesh Cricket Board officials said on Monday.

Cricket Betting: Owais with England's misfiring middle-order, bring in Shah

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Lorgat confident of finding a slot for Indian Premier League

Dubai: Haroon Lorgat, the new International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive hinted the likelihood of creating a permanent slot for India's Twenty20 Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament in world cricket calendar.


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