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English Premier League
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Cricket's April wasteland: Cook and Pietersen row like barbecue dads in the battle for Bethell | Barney Ronay

April brings confusion in English cricket with IPL and County Championship overlapping, raising concerns about player development and knowledge acquisition.
Women
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

A historic day at Hundred auction but barely any women were there to see it | Andy Bull

England's inaugural women's cricket player auction achieved record player salaries but revealed significant gender imbalance in coaching, administration, and franchise leadership roles.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

English cricket's hunger for Indian money has led it into a moral and legal minefield | Barney Ronay

Here we have a scenario whereby the ECB's great glossily packaged commercial project, sold as a force for sunlight, modernity, and openness, could end up actively reinforcing the exclusion of cricketers based on race. At which point the whole thing simply collapses. Every part of the Hundred's staging, the beamingly self-righteous tone, the schmaltzy marketing, the prim ECB talk about enshrining equality in its statutes. All of it goes up in smoke if in reality the message is: you're not coming in if you're Pakistani.
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