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Being a non-contact sport, cricket is ready to allow Covid positives take field, while maintaining social distancing norms | Cricket.

At the upcoming football World Cup in Qatar, for example, FIFA have said anyone testing positive would be isolated. Players and other participants of all 32 teams will be taking rapid antigen tests, every two days. “It’s a real shame that in elite sport you get publicly shamed for having Covid when over here probably 90% of the people in this room have it right now,” Australia’s Beth Mooney had said, backing the decision to allow McGrath to take field in the final. A total of 14,500 PCR tests were conducted during the event. Similar protocols will be employed during the T20 World Cup. McGrath adhered to the social distancing protocols while celebrating wickets, before all was forgotten as she joined the team celebrations when the gold was won.

Singleton's junior cricketers will be hoping to start their season with the first training session, for the Friday...

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New Zealand young gun Amelia Kerr has opened up about her mental health challenges, her love of the game and the much-debated run out of England's Charlie ...

Kerr said that while she wouldn’t do it herself that “it’s in the laws of the game … Kerr has been spending her limited free time working on a new mental health initiative of her own – Out of the Rough – and has applauded the likes of fellow cricketers who have helped in “normalising” the conversation. “I’m in a place with cricket where I don’t get too high or too down on cricket because I know it’s a bit of a rollercoaster of a game, so you've got to stay level,” Kerr told the 100% Cricket Podcast.

But NZ Cricket stands by its decision to change to the new Australian PlayHQ system.

Allegations of racism at Yorkshire Cricket Club brought the game into disrepute. Now a generation of junior players are attempting to change it. Howzat?

I think that while it’s bad, it’s good that we’ve come a long way and that we’re giving a lot of attention to it. But sometimes I watch Pakistan too – we’ve had a competition with them for a long time, and I like this. Plus you get to play with mates as well. Did you have any thoughts about it? “You take a breath and look onto the field and see kids you wouldn’t necessarily put together, playing and forming relationships. You feel great after you’ve played a shot and hit it quite hard through the field. Watching the easy camaraderie between the U15s at SWMCC before they head off to play a match at another club, dressed in their cricket whites, junior cricket feels like an antidote to all that ugliness. They also have much to do with white club committees refusing to expand their culture of scotch eggs, ham sandwiches and post-match drinking sessions to include a broader demographic of players. In the 1930s, it hosted some of the earliest all-female county cricket matches in England. The youngest play with plastic cricket bats and softballs, the oldest stretch their muscles before breaking out into a game. The remainder line up in front of the cricket nets and practice their bowling. I’m hoping for the sun to appear, for the city to play against stereotypes.

MCC's U-turn over Eton-Harrow is symptomatic of a sport that has always been run along class lines.

As much as the semi-professional leagues of the Midlands and the north of England acted as a summer equivalent to the Football League, an organisation called the Club Cricket Conference went as far as banning cup and league competition in the South after 1918. Rowland Bowen stated as long ago as 1970 that English cricket "has no chance" of shedding its elitist pretentions "so long as the higher administration of the game remains in the hands of people heavily imbued with that background and those ideas". In that, meritocracy rather than nepotism, inclusivity rather than exclusivity, must be the basis of English cricket's future. And yet, despite 15 of the 18 first-class counties professing to be "member-owned", they remain a disparate force. Significantly, the game's (largely unknown) history provides a model for a more meritocratic, and socially and racially open, future. The rules (Laws, as cricket insists), cultures and structures of sport are often the result of (in cricket and rugby certainly) hard-fought cultural wars over which group - invariably social class - a sport serves. As the author Alec Waugh (Sherborne) argued in the Cricketer in 1922: " The Hundred may well be the most prominent elephant in the room. All sports, across their respective regions, are socially constructed, and as far as cricket in England is concerned, the game's "posh" image, like that of football as a "people's game", is no accident of history. It was a move that created the world's first objectively modern sport, and the various cricket associations quickly followed suit. [[Richard] Nyren](https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/richard-nyren-18182)'s game is no longer entertained for a few. [Mike Marqusee revealed](https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/rob-steen-on-mike-marqusee-the-american-who-became-a-cricket-writer-821059)in his classic, Anyone but England (1994): "…

Local cricketer Lucy Hamilton has been signed by the Brisbane Heat in the WBBL competition at just 16 years old.

“She has adapted to cricket life in the WNCL and with her maturity and adaptability they are confident she can perform and handle herself in the games but also being away for the six-week period.” “She works extremely hard in relation to all her commitments but so far this year she has also represented the Queensland Fire in the Senior Women’s National Competition,” he said. “It has always been a dream of hers to play in the WBBL and it has definitely come a couple of years earlier than expected.”

Brisbane Heat will have two sets of sisters on their books early this upcoming WBBL season after snapping up Kiwi Jess Kerr.

"She’s no stranger to the Heat having been around the club in the past with her family when Melie has played with us, and we’re excited to have her bring her determination and skills to our group." 08 was set to be delayed. It means Kerr – the sister of Heat allrounder Amelia Kerr – will be making her debut for the club when the season gets underway in Mackay next Thursday, and is expected to feature in Brisbane’s first three matches.

Henry Hunt is leaving no avenue unexplored in his quest to further evolve and improve following his breakthrough 2021-22 season.

"I still see myself more in the mould of a traditional batter who's probably more oriented towards the longer form of cricket, but limited-overs is an area of cricket I want to try and get better at and have an impact on. "He's got a good understanding of where he's at so he's able to keep learning and keep moving forward, and his strength of mind is something that really holds him in good stead." In acknowledging the Shield Player of the Year accolade was a pleasant surprise and gratefully received recognition for effort, he claimed it carried greater resonance as acknowledgement of the countless hours his parents put in driving him to and from training and games during his boyhood. "I think most cricketers try to think of the game strategically and tactically as best they can when they're out on the field. However, the respect he engenders from his teammates coupled with his willingness to learn any new element of the game meant he grasped the opportunity to skipper, and was rewarded with a record that shows a winning ratio to date that's the envy of many of his SA captaincy predecessors. "He's also worked hard on his game against spin, and it's been so exciting to see him with Australia A during the winter and having some great opportunities there to play in spinning conditions in Sri Lanka and on the trip to India. "To experience that first-hand and play against some of their best players over in Sri Lanka was great from a learning perspective and something I hope I can try and work towards over the next few years. "As simple as that sounds, I think that mantra struck a chord with him and he's constantly searching for feedback on where he's defending the ball and if his lines are right. "This year's trip with the Australia A squad, and then to Chennai, was a great experience - training and playing in foreign conditions is something I really want to do, to challenge myself in different circumstances. "To go and field and rub shoulders with some of the biggest names in Australian cricket, it was something I want to strive to achieve and to get out there for myself." During the winter, he was part of the Australia A squad that toured Sri Lanka in tandem with the men's Test team where he worked assiduously on his batting technique against spin, bouncing back from a pair in the opening four-day game at Hambantota to post a century in the second. "Obviously the size and the influence of the crowd was totally different to anything I'd experienced in Shield cricket, so to be a very small part of that moment gave me a little taste and something to work towards.

Anjan Luthra has been appointed as Cricket Scotland's new chair for a two-year period as the organisation looks to rebuild after being found institutionally ...

They now have a purpose-built cricket stadium and infrastructure." "He is young, very ambitious and has done a lot in his life already. Haq said: "It's one of the first days I have been quite positive about Scottish cricket for a long, long time. "The Scottish women's team don't have any contracted players. That anger and frustration turned into the motivation to try and help. I am ready for the challenge.

New chair Anjan Luthra tells BBC Scotland he has "the tools to really rebuild" Cricket Scotland in the wake of a damning racism report.

My first priority is to make sure that everything in the report is implemented quickly to a very high standard. I empathise with the victims that have been very brave and have gone through some deep suffering and pain, and I want to be the person to lead this organisation through the next chapter. I'm in Edinburgh next week meeting a large number of candidates. "I've represented the country before at cricket," added Luthra, who played age grade up to under-19s. We must listen, empathise and understand what is going on. "Ultimately it's the chair and the board that are responsible for holding the organisation to account, so it's very important that this small group of people are aligned and have a diverse set of skills and are all as ambitious as each other to drive the organisation forward.

The new chair of Cricket Scotland, Anjan Luthra, said anger at reading a report into racism in the organisation motivated him to get involved in turning the ...

"The why for me comes from an underlying passion to change the course of this organisation and make a level playing field for everyone playing cricket in Scotland." "It's one of the first days I have been quite positive about Scottish cricket for a long, long time," said Haq, who is a former teammate of Luthra. The new chair of Cricket Scotland, Anjan Luthra, said anger at reading a report into racism in the organisation motivated him to get involved in turning the sport around in Scotland.

Public comments from Haq and former Scotland teammate Qasim Sheikh prompted an independent review, which discovered 448 instances of institutional racism.

We are looking for cricket in Scotland to be successful, we will be watching them in the World Cup. “After the investigation, we could have left it there but we are still fighting away. I will be working tirelessly to rebuild the organisation. “He is young, very ambitious and has done a lot in his life already. [Terms of use,](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/user-policies-a6184151.html) [Cookie policy](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/cookie-policy-a6184186.html) and [Privacy notice.](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/privacy-policy-a6184181.html) He is also a former Ferguslie team-mate of Haq, who told the PA news agency: “It’s one of the first days I have been quite positive about Scottish cricket for a long, long time. [Privacy policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en) and [Terms of service](https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en) apply. He added on Twitter: “I have been deeply upset about what the victims have been through. He added: “There is progress being made in Cricket Scotland but there is a huge amount more work to do and we are really committed to working with Running Out Racism, with Aamer, Qasim and Majid and everybody else to make sure it is a welcoming sport for everybody and it is a robust and leading governing body of sport in Scotland.” But he added: “It is clear that Cricket Scotland remains hugely under-resourced and it is for sportscotland to wake up to this, the massive hole in cricket funding needs resolved, if the promises made to the victims of racism are not betrayed.” There are huge fundamental problems to tackle. “He will aim for the top and that’s what we need in Scottish cricket because there is a lot of potential there.”

Mr Luthra will take up the two-year post with immediate effect bringing vast expertise, skill and passion from his career across sport, private equity and ...

The Chair will lead the governance review that is one of the major recommendations emanating from ‘Changing the Boundaries’ and provides an important bridge to the International Cricket Council, sportscotland and our other stakeholders.” Gordon Arthur, Interim CEO of Cricket Scotland, commented: “I congratulate Anjan for being appointed the new Chair of Cricket Scotland. Before this Mr Luthra spent several years in private equity and venture capital where he served on the boards of a number of leading investment firms.

Former cricketers Majid Haq and Qasim Sheikh, who spoke out about the discrimination, went with interim CEO Gordon Arthur to the offices of Aamer Anwar on ...

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The new chair of Cricket Scotland, Anjan Luthra, said anger at reading a report into racism in the organisation motivated him to get involved in turning the ...

"The why for me comes from an underlying passion to change the course of this organisation and make a level playing field for everyone playing cricket in Scotland." "It's one of the first days I have been quite positive about Scottish cricket for a long, long time," said Haq, who is a former teammate of Luthra. The new chair of Cricket Scotland, Anjan Luthra, said anger at reading a report into racism in the organisation motivated him to get involved in turning the sport around in Scotland.