New research shows pink cricket balls can be extra difficult to see in those crucial minutes when day turns to night during play.
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The European Union has a deep, and maybe unbreakable reach into our sporting life.
When a cricket match is cut short there’s a way to work out how many runs are needed in any reduced over game. That’s okay for the long form game but it doesn’t work for the shorter matches.
As Chris Gayle has so amply demonstrated, there is still considerable resistance to the full integration of women into sport culture – and not least in the sports media.
The pink ball introduced to this year’s day night cricket test can be difficult to see for some players, especially if they are colour blind. There is a better choice of colour.
What can the International Cricket Council learn from FIFA and the IAAF? Plenty.
There’s no evidence that cloud cover affects bowling at all, but everyone involved with cricket seems to think it does.
If a misogynistic atmosphere is allowed to prevail in men’s individual and team sports, then all the platitudes about sport being a socially positive force stand exposed.
Leave debates about on-court banter aside and focus on the victim here.
Cricket, which has aspirations to become a global game despite the limitations of its growth trajectory along the lines plotted by the old British Empire, may shrink back to a few strongholds.
While women achieve great things on field, off-field administrators need to make sure they’re supported.
A corruption scandal in India’s cricketing super league has led to the suspension of two of its teams.
It’s not just about physical training and psychology, sport is influenced by your location.
The Ashes start tomorrow but the war of words has already begun.
It was designed as a way of achieving a result from rain-affected matches, but the Duckworth-Lewis method is not fit for purpose. Here’s a suggested replacement.
Anderson’s achievement in modern-day cricket is a feat but the next generation of fast bowlers may do something different.
Richie Benaud was a key figure in cricket’s transformation into an entertainment business. A reading of his life is a tale of the changing relationships between sport, media, business and society.
The legendary commentator perfectly understood the rhythms of cricket.
English cricket has given up on the one-day form of the game.
r all of India’s cricketing passion, economic strength and for that matter its population size, the country is arguably the world’s most under-achieving sporting nation.
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Head Of Department in Department of Sport & Event Management, Bournemouth University
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Sport Ethics, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor in Sport Psychology and Safe Sport, Bournemouth University
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Professor of Journalism, Swansea University
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Lecturer, James Cook University
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Professor of Statistics, Queensland University of Technology
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Distinguished Fellow, Australia-India Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality Management, Leeds Beckett University
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Professor of Media and Communications, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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ARC Future Fellow, School of PEMS, UNSW Sydney
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Reader in Sociology of Sport, Loughborough University
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Associate Professor - Perception, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Politics, University of Sussex
