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Top cricket players signed by Birmingham Phoenix in The Hundred Draft, powered by Sage

Naseem Shah, Amy Jones, Richa Ghosh and Sean Abbott were the big players of the night to join Birmingham Phoenix at The Hundred Draft, powered by Sage. Birmingham Phoenix had first choice in the women’s side of The Hundred Draft, bringing local Birmingham star Amy Jones back to Edgbaston for her fourth year in Birmingham […]

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Warwickshire outlines its cricket inclusivity plan

Warwickshire has outlined its commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in cricket with the publication of its updated Edgbaston for Everyone plan. Edgbaston for Everyone documents the progress Warwickshire has made since the Club’s EDI blueprint was launched two years ago and its pledges for the future. Highlights from the last 12 months include organising

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Bradford City’s first fan club for South Asian women launches

Image by Newsquest, Mike Simmonds The Baji Bantams, Bradford City’s first fans group for South Asian women, is set to have their first outing at Valley Parade this weekend when Bradford take on Sutton United. The group is made up of life-long fans, families and some who have never seen the lively home of the Bantams

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Pakistani cricketer has his contract terminated

Image by Samuel Rajkumar/Reuters Haris Rauf (pictured above) has had his contract terminated by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) as he refused to join the Test team for the tour of Australia, which coincided with his stint at Australia’s Big Bash League (BBL). In a statement released yesterday the PCB said: “Haris’ central contract has

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National Research Reveals Best Sports Movies

Image by aatlas from Pixabay  National Research commissioned by Showcase Cinemas has shown that Cool Runnings has been named the UK’s favourite sports movie of all time. The research has been carried out in order to celebrate the release of ‘Next Goal Wins’, the inspiring true story of the American Samoa national football team, which came out on

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QATAR ACADEMY STUDENTS ORGANISE CHARITY FOOTBALL MATCH FOR PALESTINE

Image by Qatar Foundation More than Twenty- Seven Thousand people attended a \”Stand with Palestine\” Football Match on Friday 15 December at the Education City Stadium, Doha, Qatar, where an approximate of twenty- million Qatari Riyals was raised to support Palestinian people. The fund-raising initiative, launched by students of Qatar Academy Doha (QAD) is part of QF’s

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Study by Sport England reveals younger population as inactive

Image by Bottomlayercz0 at Pixabay A study by Sport England has shown that more than eleven million adults are doing less than thirty minutes of exercise in a week, and 53% of children and young people are not meeting the government’s recommended guideline of 60 minutes of activity a day, classing them as “inactive”. A

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Cricket Scotland appoints chair and independent non-executive directors

Clockwise from top to bottom: Shaista Aziz, Tricia Bey,Jamie Cox and Harry Singh (Images by Cricket Scotland) Cricket Scotland has confirmed the appointment of a new Chair, Wilf Walsh, as well as four new Independent Non-Executive Directors to the Cricket Scotland Limited Board. Wilf Walsh, appointed as Cricket Scotland Chair, is Chair of the Racecourse

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