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Concussion subs set to be used in the ashes

Good news for fans of aimless cricket. Captains will no longer be suspended for slow rates.

Though they hardly ever were anyway.

another tooth removed?

How would five runs added onto opposition score for each over underbowled (and still have to bowl them) go?

Zimbabwe are the first full member nation to be sanctioned/banned by the ICC for government inteference


Sad interview about it with Sikander Raza: https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id ... andar-raza

Josh Poysden is out for the season after suffering a fractured skull after being hit in the nets whilst delivering throw downs, fingers crossed for a speedy recovery!

Umpires Gough and Wilson have been added to elite ump[ires panel, with gould and Ravi off the list

Prtivhi Shaw is out till november after a failing a drugs test

Really? Big news.

From a cough syrup

Calling bullsh*t on this. Terbutaline is a very strong asthma medication that's used as a emergency relief for serious patients, and comes in the form of an inhaler. It has an amazing amount of drug interactions that are dangerous, so the idea that Shaw bought this over the counter is simply not true. It's a strictly controlled drug and falls under schedule H..... Only a doctor would prescribe it. Simon Yates got busted for it in cycling a couple of years ago.

Young guy, lots of potential....are the BCCi trying to cover something up?

Recently (around a year ago, by the looks of this) I noticed these two seem to popping up everywhere. I have heard both of them on the ABC cricket coverage a few times, I think Lemon has been on the Beeb too(?) But it was interesting to read a bit of their back story. A good article, if a little jingoistic. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-03/geoff-lemon-adam-collins-changing-cricket-coverage-in-australia/11345286?sf216926699=1&fbclid=IwAR3prBJ2su4wj_lqrVxCvC-anm-qwo0HVWxa5SvhXqNbD_2KDNlWOHX7AoI

and now I have just read the opinion piece Lemon did about the Nine commentators 4 years back, which is linked to in the above article.

Lemon certainly made no friends at Nine with that. Though it is pretty hard to disagree with much that he wrote. Incisive and accurate.

Lemon writes articles in the UK for the Guardian and both do over by over. Lemon is a good writer. Not noticed Collins so much.

Well done to Rahmat Shah for scoring Afghanistan's first Test hundred, against BD today.