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GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (AP) — Aaron Jones hit the ball out of the park again and the United States edged cricket heavyweight Pakistan in a Super Over tiebreaker for one of the biggest upsets ever at a Twenty20 World Cup.

South Africa has suspended David Teeger, the Jewish captain of the country’s under-19 cricket team, for the duration of the World Cup because of remarks he made last year supporting Israel against the Palestinian terror group Hamas.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has banned biological male players from participating in international women’s cricket. The move against transgender competitors who “identify” with the other sex has been made to protect the safety of female players.

Cricket is an Olympic sport again. Flag football gets in for the first time.

Cricket is set to break a century–plus absence and become an Olympic sport for just the second time at the Los Angeles 2028 Games, a report Monday revealed. According to the UK Times newspaper, the executive board of the International Olympic

Dutch prosecutors demanded a 12-year prison sentence for a former Pakistani cricketer over calls to kill Islam critic Geert Wilders.

A Just Stop Oil protest was quickly foiled at Lord’s Cricket Ground on Wednesday when players on the pitch rushed in to cart the eco-zealots away to prevent damage to the playing surface.

Mobs of Muslims and Hindus have clashed with police and each other in Leicester, England, with at least one Hindu temple vandalised. 

A bout of sectarian violence between the Muslim and Hindu communities in Leicestershire has seen police granted special powers.

EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) – The board of Cricket Scotland resigned on Sunday ahead of the publication of an independent report into racism.

Quinton de Kock, the former South African cricket captain who refused to kneel for his country’s national anthem in solidarity with the radical left-wing Black Lives Matter movement, retired suddenly from the cricket world last week.

LONDON (AP) – Yorkshire chairman Roger Hutton has resigned in the fallout from former player Azeem Rafiq’s racism allegations against the English cricket club, citing an unwillingness by the club to accept the claims and a refusal to apologize.

South African cricketer Quinton de Kock dropped out of a World Cup game after the team was ordered to take the knee for Black Lives Matter (BLM), but has since felt obliged to issue a humiliating public recantation of his actions.

South African cricket star Quinton de Kock withdrew from a major international competition Tuesday rather than follow a new policy requiring players to kneel for the country’s national anthem in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.

Members of the the South African men’s cricket team now competing at the T20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates have been ordered to take the knee before every match. A command  issued by the Cricket South Africa (CSA) Board late Monday night outlined the new requirement.

An email threatening the security of New Zealand’s national cricket team if it traveled to Pakistan for a planned tournament last week was “generated from India,” Pakistan’s Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said Wednesday.

A Taliban official has announced that the terrorist takeover of Afghanistan will include banning women from taking part in sports.

Get ready to learn the difference between fielding positions that include square leg and silly mid-on. Cricket is seeking to end its 128-year absence from the Olympic sports roster by pushing to join breakdancing for inclusion at the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

While the MSM has been bending over backwards to rehabilitate Shamima Begum, it has been less forgiving towards fast bowler Ollie Robinson.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government claims to have “turned the tide” against cancel culture even as a player on England’s national cricket team has been suspended for tweets sent as a teenager.

English Premier League (EPL) footballers obeyed the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement on the launch day of the 2020/21 season, with players taking a knee in all four of Saturday’s top-flight fixtures.

The decision by cricketers representing Australia and England not to take a knee before commencing their latest series has been called “lame” by a former West Indies player.

LONDON (AP) – Spectators were allowed into a sporting event in England for the first time since March when coronavirus prevention measures were tested at a cricket match between Surrey and Middlesex at The Oval ahead of a planned wider

The head of one of Britain’s leading management bodies has urged businesses to crack down on men talking about sports such as soccer and cricket because it leads to the promotion of lad culture women feeling “left out.”

Maxine Blythin, a cricket player born as a man who now self-identifies as a woman, has been named the 2019 Kent Woman Cricketer of the Year.

You have to plan for all contingencies when you’re competing in high-level international sports, though, it’s hard to imagine anyone saw this coming.

Legendary cricket commentator Henry ‘Blowers’ Blofeld is leaving London and moving overseas, complaining that the capital has become “horribly violent” and observing that “you don’t see many Englishmen” there anymore.

A European Union (EU) monitoring team, that was present for Pakistan’s general election which saw the victory of cricket legend-turned-politician Imran Khan this week, said on Friday that the campaign for the election was not a level playing field for all the political parties that participated in the race.