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Business Briefing: following the money in cricket
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Rather than just admiring a good hit or delivery, there’s another way to analyse what’s happening on a cricket pitch. Cricket players are actually business people, in the sense that they’re weighing up…
An opportunity to study and play at the same time.
Cricket has experienced its fair share of industrial drama over the years – and the 2017 dispute looks like a re-run of a brawl that enveloped the sport in Australia 20 years ago.
Help with psychological issues for elite performers is not about reacting when problems bubble to the surface.
Negotiations for the new media rights for cricket in Australia could see a change in how we watch games, and even be linked to a drop in people actually playing the game.
Is the 20-over format a friend or foe for English cricket?
South Africa’s cricket is on the rise again, now represented by players of all the country’s races. One of them is Temba Bavuma. His first test century in 2015 knocked a few perceptions for a six.
Just because you were good at sport does not mean you can coach without furthering your qualifications and experiences.
Examining our sporting heroes reveals much about ideas of national identity and who is accepted.
The former England captain was a towering figure in sport, but her mission to reduce inequality in cricket remains unfinished.
The rise of India’s Ravichandran Ashwin is down to both art and science.
New research shows pink cricket balls can be extra difficult to see in those crucial minutes when day turns to night during play.
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.
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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 Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Journalism, Swansea University
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Sport Ethics, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor of Education, Charles Sturt University
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Reader in Sport Psychology, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University., Loughborough University
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Lecturer, James Cook University
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Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Statistics, Queensland University of Technology
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Industry Professor and Chief Economist, University of Technology Sydney
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Distinguished Fellow, Australia-India Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Politics, University of Sussex
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Visiting Fellow, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality Management, Leeds Beckett University