Cricket

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Cricket: Mbabazi, Ssesazzi & Awino nominated for May accolade ... (Kawowo Sports)

Cricket has Janet Mbabazi (Victoria Pearls), Simon Ssesaazi (Aziz Damani) and Kevin Awino (Victoria Pearls) for the May 2022 Fortebet Real Stars awards.

- James Okello – City Oilers - Kevin Awino – Victoria Pearls - Janet Mbabazi – Victoria Pearls

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Survivor of sexual abuse by paedophile coach Ian King sues Cricket ... (ABC News)

A colleague of King told police Cricket ACT knew the coach 'liked little boys' early in his 10-year coaching stint; Lawyers say dozens of victims have been ...

Due to what Cricket ACT described as "tight fiscal controls and careful management of expenditure", it posted an operating profit of $670,922. But the reality of Australian cricket's power structure and finances is something close to the opposite. "What our client was subjected to as a young boy and the impact it has had on his life is simply heartbreaking. Our client had dreams of a future in cricket. Those hopes and dreams were destroyed by this predator." In the decade before his stint in Canberra, King had also coached elite Western Australian junior representative teams.

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Lord's likely to host World Test Championship final in 2023 (ESPNcricinfo.com)

Lord's had been informally earmarked as the venue for the first WTC final last summer but because of Covid-19 the game was instead played in Southampton at the ...

Some countries may have to make room and play less Test cricket - some of them might have totally different long and short form squads but also some of the smaller Full Members will have to accept from a resourcing point of view that they can't play the amount of Test cricket that they wanted to. Southampton - which had hosted international cricket in the summer of 2020 at the start of the pandemic - was seen as the ideal venue logistically to keep players in a bio-secure bubble because of its on-site hotel. Lord's had been informally earmarked as the venue for the first WTC final last summer but because of Covid-19 the game was instead played in Southampton at the Ageas Bowl. At the time, the UK was still moving out of restrictions put in place because of the pandemic.

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