South Asian fans in Cricket Australia’s sights as it strives to be a ‘sport for all’

Posted on December 21, 2023 by Admin

Multicultural action plan seeks to remove barriers to players and volunteers from diverse communities

Two-thirds of south Asian-Australian cricketers find it challenging to find a club, according to Cricket Australia’s multicultural action plan, which calls for the body’s staff to undergo unconscious bias and cultural awareness training.

The plan – which was released on Friday in Melbourne in the lead-up to the Boxing Day Test against Pakistan – is the result of thousands of hours of consultation with members of local communities.

Ravindra Jadeja blasts astonishing 37 off one over in IPL

Posted on April 25, 2021 by Admin

Chennai player hits 28-ball 62 in Super Kings’ win over RCB
Final over scorecard reads: 6,6,6 (off no-ball) 6,2,6,4

Ravindra Jadeja smashed a record-equalling 37 runs off the final over before claiming 3-13 to lead Chennai Super Kings to a 69-run victory over Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League match in Mumbai.

Chris Gayle, while playing for Bangalore, had also hit 37 runs in a single over against Kochi Tuskers’ Prasanth Parameswaran during the 2011 edition of the IPL – but Jadeja’s Sunday best was one of the most astonishing all-round tours de force the competition has seen.

Armpit advertising: Australian cricket umpires to carry deodorant ads under their arms

Posted on December 9, 2020 by Admin

Underarm ads for deodorant believed to be a world first
Umpires to wear the ads during Big Bash League games

Cricket advertising is set for areas never before reached, with umpires in Australia’s Big Bash League to advertise a new sponsor in their underarms.

In a groundbreaking “armpit advertising” campaign revealed on Thursday, Cricket Australia announced a commercial partnership with the Australian deodorant and antiperspirant brand Rexona.

James Vince guides England to comfortable T20 win over New Zealand

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Admin

England take 1-0 series lead after seven-wicket victory
Vince hits 59 from 38 deliveries at Hagley Oval

England’s five-match Twenty20 series against New Zealand began with a relative stroll in Hagley Park as a typically stylish hand from James Vince helped set up a seven-wicket victory with nine balls to spare.

When Eoin Morgan launched his opposite number, Tim Southee, over deep mid-wicket for six, it completed a chase of 154 that rarely felt in doubt after Vince had finessed 38-ball 59 from No 3. In such a picture-postcard setting, perhaps it was fitting that England’s most aesthetically-pleasing batsmen should prove the difference.