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Travis Head.

Head gives up T20 gigs for Australia duty; Refugee cricketers send a message to the Taliban

Travis Head has agreed to give up Twenty20 franchise opportunities outside the Big Bash League and the IPL, while the Afghanistan women cricketers who take the field in Melbourne this week know their game is about more than runs and wickets.

  • Jon Pierik and Daniel Brettig

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Smash two-tier Test idea out of the ground

There must be room for Test cricket to evolve and adapt, but a two-tier system is not the way to go.

  • The Age's View
Virat Kohli was fined 20 per cent of his match fee and given a demerit point for making physical contact with Sam Konstas.

The secret post-sandpaper-gate change that saved Virat Kohli from suspension

Andy Pycroft – who also presided over the Cape Town Test in 2018 – charged Kohli with a level-one offence for “inappropriate physical contact”, the most lenient grade of the ICC’s code of conduct.

  • Andrew Wu and Daniel Brettig
Mohammed Siraj

Siraj responds to fine for Head send-off as India’s danger duo miss training

Mohammed Siraj gave a short reply to questions about the flashpoint during the second Test after he and Jasprit Bumrah were the only bowlers not to train with the Indian team on Tuesday.

  • Tom Decent
Former NSW premier Mike Baird says Cricket Australia’s communication with the game’s fans can improve.

‘We can’t tell people what to do’: Cricket boss on Australia Day, summer chaos and Warner

Former NSW premier Mike Baird says Cricket Australia can’t tell the public “how to respond or act” on issues such as the date of Australia Day.

  • Daniel Brettig
World Cup broadcast rights money is the lifeblood of most cricket nations.

Cricket rights cash fight threatens lifeblood of the game

Star’s pursuit of a massive World Cup rights discount is life-threatening for the likes of Pakistan, South Africa and the West Indies. It will hurt Australia too.

  • Daniel Brettig
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There was no sign of his toe injury as Shamar Joseph celebrated bowling the West Indies to a famous Test win over Australia at the Gabba.

Test cricket to be saved by multimillion-dollar fund

A proposal to create a fund to counteract the rise of Twenty20 franchise leagues by guaranteeing significant payments to Test players is set to be adopted by the ICC.

  • Malcolm Conn
BCCI boss Jay Shah hands the ICC T20 World Cup trophy to India’s captain Rohit Sharma alongside ICC chair Greg Barclay.

Indian boss to take over world cricket amid $4.5 billion TV rights fight

Jay Shah will take over as chair of the International Cricket Council after forcing the resignation of the incumbent Greg Barclay, amid a $US3 billion dispute with its major broadcast rights holder.

  • Daniel Brettig
Ukraine cricketer Oleksandr Romanenko.

The Ukrainian cricketers who ditched their bats to save their country

“As strange as it sounds, what I want to be doing most of all right now is playing cricket. But I have a sniper’s rifle in my hands right now instead of a bat, and a grenade instead of a ball.”

  • Rob Harris
Usman Khawaja spoke at the MCG on Friday, after being charged with breaching ICC regulations.

Batter to boat-rocker … and neither Khawaja nor Dutton will back down

As a breed, Australian cricketers are generally on the conservative side of things, but the softly spoken opener has shattered the convention.

  • Peter FitzSimons

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