After success at the rugby and football World Cups, women’s sport is riding high in England, now it is the turn of the cricketers who will fly the flag against Australia.
Sports Integrity Initiative: Gerard Elias QC – The UK needs a specific law to combat match-fixing
Match-Fixing, Sports LawGerard Elias QC’s role as Chairman of the Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) for the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is one that has seen him oversee issues that have varied from players’ spitting on the pitch through to racism allegations and corruption of the sport. Appointed as the CDC’s chairman in 1996, it’s a role he’s held for almost twenty years; even he concedes that such a term is too long. Appointed a QC in 1984, Elias is also a former Chairman of Glamorgan County Cricket Club and has chaired Disciplinary Tribunals for many other sports including the Welsh Rugby Union.
Sports Integrity Initiative: French handball suspects found guilty of illegal betting
Match-Fixing, Sports LawThe 16 suspects accused of fixing a top tier handball match between French sides Montpellier and Cesson in May 2012 have been found guilty for their involvement in or involvement in illegal betting according to Le Monde. Amongst those convicted are the French handball star, Nikola Karabatic, and his younger brother Luka Karabatic. On Friday the Criminal Court of Montpellier reportedly ordered Nikola Karabatic to pay a fine of €10,000. According to reports the prosecutor had requested a three-month suspended sentence and €30,000 fine.
BBC County Cricket: LV= County Championships – Derbyshire v Glamorgan, 6-9 July 2015
Radio, Specsavers County Championships, SportBBC Test Match Special: Ashes 2015 – Australia v Kent Tour Match, Day 3
BBC 5 Live Sports Extra - Men, Radio, Sport
BBC County Cricket: LV= County Championships – Lancashire v Northamptonshire, 29 June – 2 July 2015
Radio, Specsavers County Championships, Sport
The Independent: The Ashes – Marsh and Johnson on top in selection duels
Match Reports, Print, Sport, The IndependentWell before the Australian slip cordon took their mark shortly after lunch on day two, a good two paces further back than their Kent counterparts, it was clear this was to be a Canterbury tale of two very different teams. The imposing total of 507, set by Australia, had set the tone. Here was arguably the best Test team in the world against an eager yet inexperienced Kent side at the bottom of the County Championship Second Division.
BBC County Cricket: LV= County Championships – Middlesex v Worcestershire, 21-24 June 2015
Radio, Specsavers County Championships, Sport
Sports Integrity Initiative: Salman Butt hopes confession will accelerate return to cricket
Match-Fixing, Sports LawThe former Pakistan cricket captain, Salman Butt, has signed a written statement specifically confessing to spot-fixing. In the statement, which was published by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Butt admits that he was ‘guilty of breaching the International Cricket Council (ICC) Anti-Corruption Code in the manner found by the Anti-Corruption Tribunal’ and admits specifically to being a ‘party to the bowling of two deliberate no balls in the Lord’s test match.’
The Independent: Anya Shrubsole’s plans in full swing for Ashes assault on Australia
Interviews, Print, Sport, The IndependentWalking into the kitchen of the Shrubsole family home on the outskirts of Bath you’re met with all the day-to-day trappings one expects of urban life. A closer look however and it dawns, this is no ordinary household. Tucked away behind the fruit bowl and perched next to the toaster a tall, gleaming, jewel-studded trophy sticks out. The engraving on the base gives the game away: 2014 ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Player of the Tournament – Anya Shrubsole.
Isabelle Westbury 