I know but he needs to get over it , why can’t just he directly tell Warner this? Why make it so public !
It’s just catty like behaviour .
I guess it’s because it sells papers.
Journalists aren’t always going to write “nice” stories because people want to read something spicy.
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India defeated Australia by six runs in the 5th and final T20 match in Bengaluru overnight, to claim the series 4-1.
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SMH’s Andrew Webster has just penned an opinion piece about Mitchell Johnson’s newspaper column on David Warner.
Some of the cricket stories we missed
Brisbane Heat’s Charli Knott was named the Young Gun of the 2023 tournament.
Uganda has qualified for next year’s T20 World Cup, at the expense of Zimbabwe.
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The Indigenous design will not be the only new-look feature, with a new sponsor across the front of the men’s playing kit for the first time since the 2017-18 season, with Cricket Australia upgrading its deal with two existing key partners to claim the prime real estate on the playing kit.
The new one-year sponsor agreement across all men’s playing kit will see Toyota, a long-standing partner, take centre stage on the men’s shirt front, while HCLTech will appear on the sleeve of the leading arm on the men’s playing shirt.
HCLTech, which was on the sleeve for Australia’s ODI World Cup triumph, will continue to hold the prime position at next year’s men’s T20 World Cup to be played in the US and Caribbean. ICC regulations restrict shirt-front sponsorship at its events.
The digital service firm which originated in India but now has a global presence has been CA’s digital technology partner since 2019, and will have its logo across the chest of the men’s training kit. It’s the first time CA has separated the shirt-front sponsors of playing and training kits, a move CA’s executive general manager of Broadcast & Commercial, Stephanie Beltrame, said would “amplify the roles and prominence each holds”.
The one-year deal that covers a summer with visits from Pakistan and West Indies also allows CA flexibility to continue negotiations for coming seasons, including next year’s inaugural five-Test home series against India, and the 2025-26 Ashes.
What it means though is that, like Lyon’s there, the logos will be pressed onto blank shirts (unlike the womens’ for example where it’s printed as the shirt is made) leading to terribly wonky logos and legitimately painful to look at shirts.
Toyota returns as a major CA sponsor after they dropped CA following the Sandpaper crisis in 2018
The timing of the announcement would make it tough to produce clothing with the logos before at least the Test series begins I would have thought.
I wouldnt be surprised if the logo used on the promo shots will be different to what they walk out in the first test with on their chest
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Not true, they’ve been a sponsor all the way through. Have you watched cricket since 2018?
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No I know, I’m aware of that. But I’m just saying inevitably one will be wonky like Lyon’s there.
Maybe, but being a short-term deal I wouldn’t count on it.
Alyssa Healy has been appointed the new captain of Australian women’s team, after Meg Lanning’s retirement from international cricket.
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BBL abandoned tonight in Geelong due to an unsafe pitch.
Not been a good weekend for cricket as far as the weather and pitches are concerned.
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Wow, 2 nights in a row with no BBL action.
Channel 7 won’t be happy.
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Fox will be even more unhappy, yesterday was an exclusive game of theirs. Between the PMs XI and the two BBL games being called off they’ve only been able to show 6.5 out of a possible 130 overs action over the weekend.
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Given T20 games require innings to be completed within 90 minutes, I’m not sure what this is going to achieve?
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Well they are supposed to run 90 minutes but rarely do. Hence the need for onerous penalties.
Something needs to be done about test cricket, too.
To paraphrase Bart Simpson at Cypress Creek: ‘Are we going to catch up to the rest of sport by going slower than they are? Cuckoo!’
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Good. Let’s just enjoy the cricket. Leave the politics to off-field.
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Disappointing to see the further desecration of the Test uniform with back of shirt sponsors now seemingly allowed.
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