BBC County Cricket commentary
LV= County Championships, Division Two
Lancashire v Glamorgan
21 – 24 August 2015
Old Trafford, Manchester
Sports Integrity Initiative: Convicted Pakistani cricketers eligible to return to competitive cricket
Match-Fixing, Sports LawYesterday the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that sanctions against Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt will expire at midnight on 1 September 2015. The ICC announced that the two cricketers, who were convicted alongside their Pakistani team-mate Mohammad Amir for their roles in spot-fixing during the England vs. Pakistan Lord’s Test in August 2010, would be eligible to return to competitive cricket after ‘fulfilling the specific conditions’ laid down by the independent Anti-Corruption Tribunal in February 2011.
BBC Sport: Women’s Ashes – ‘There’s a hubris about England’
BBC Sport, BBC Test Match Special - Women, Features, Radio, Sportby Kalika Mehta, BBC Sport at Canterbury
A dismal display from England in the sole Test of the seven-match multi-format Women’s Ashes series has left them on the brink of relinquishing the Ashes to Australia for the first time in five years.
The Independent: Women’s Ashes – England skittled to leave grip on Ashes weakened
Match Reports, Print, Sport, The IndependentThe Monk’s Tale. That will be the one that England will be reading here in Canterbury as they contemplate a heavy loss in the women’s Test that leaves them needing to win all three Twenty20 matches to win the Ashes.
ABC – Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Grandstand Cricket Podcast – Ashes Podcast, Episode 3
Podcasts, Radio, SportAshes Podcast: Episode 3
14 Aug 2015
Geoff Lemon, Anna Lanning, Izzy Westbury and Adam Collins break down the Southern Stars’ victory in the Women’s Ashes Test.
BBC Test Match Special: Women’s Ashes Test, Day 4
BBC Test Match Special - Women, Radio, Sport
The Independent: Women’s Ashes – Katherine Brunt bowls like the wind despite the rain
Match Reports, Print, Sport, The IndependentMoving day. In golf, the penultimate day of a four-day tournament is termed as such because it is when competitors try to set themselves up for the final push in the last round. On the third day of the four-day women’s Ashes Test match here at Canterbury it was Australia who, 106 runs ahead overnight, entered the field of play hoping to move far enough out of reach of England to orchestrate a first Test win on English soil since 2001.
The Independent: Women’s Ashes – Megan Schutt opens up imposing lead as struggling England go slow
Match Reports, Print, Sport, The IndependentIt was a day for the cricketing purists. In an England innings which featured 436 dot balls and saw them bowled out for just 168 to trail the visitors on first innings by 106 runs, the Australian contingent of the healthy Canterbury crowd spent much of it mulling over unwanted reminders of the last time these two teams met in a Test on English soil.
The Independent: Women’s Ashes – Jess Jonassen fights back for Australia after Anya Shrubsole’s early heroics
Match Reports, Print, Sport, The IndependentIn a devastating spell either side of lunch, Anya Shrubsole tipped the balance England’s way on day one of the women’s Ashes Test here in Canterbury. However, an unbeaten 95 down the order by Australia’s debutant Jess Jonassen frustrated the home side later in the day to leave the match evenly poised with the visitors on 268 for 8.
Sports Integrity Initiative: AFL players’ doping bans sparks illicit drugs policy debate
Doping, Sports LawTwo players of the Australian Football League (AFL) club Collingwood, Lachlan Keeffe and Josh Thomas, have accepted two-year bans after testing positive for the banned substance clenbuterol. The bans are backdated to their provisional suspension by the AFL in March earlier this year. Collingwood released a statement saying that, in accordance with the AFL Anti-Doping Code and the World Anti-Doping Agency, the two footballers had been delisted by the club and would be fined approximately $50,000 (€33,630) each, which includes having part of their 2015 player payments withheld, a figure agreed to by the players and their representatives.
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