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Deandra Dottin, batting and bowling, and Hayley Matthews for batting have been nominated for the ESPNcricinfo performance of the year(2016).
The ESPNcricinfo Awards recognise the best individual batting and bowling performances in cricket over the calendar year. They are voted on by an independent jury of former cricketers, commentators, and ESPNcricinfo's senior writers.
The complete lists for batting and bowling can be found here.
Pakistan's wait to host a major cricketing team for a cricket series just got longer as the West Indies Cricket Board refused to send its team for the proposed two-match T20 International series. No major team has travelled to Pakistan since a militant attack on the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore in March 2009 a short limited-overs tour by Zimbabwe in 2015 the exception and they have played all their home fixtures in the United Arab Emirates in recent years.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had invited West Indies to Lahore for the two games, on consecutive days, after the Pakistan Super League (PSL) final, which might be held in Lahore on March 9.
However, Shaharyar Khan, the PCB chairman, said on Saturday (January 14) that the plan has been cancelled. "The West Indies board have conveyed to us verbally that the thing is off," AFP reported him as saying. "The West Indies players' union is not willing, so at the moment they have refused."
In an interesting development coming to hand is that the owners of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) is allegedly looking for the buyer for the tournament.
With the league expected to get underway in the first week of August, Guardian Media understands that talks are in progress with a potential buyer from India but nothing is concrete just yet. CPL has been pumping money into the product since the inception in 2014 and is yet to turn around a profit.
What they have done though is create a product that is now a viable one and a sale at this point in time could fetch them a handsome amount, to offset the funds they would have pumped into the league.
Only last year, all six teams were picked up by owners and prior to this CPL had to bankroll the teams that had no owners. This cost a handsome amount and with regional governments not coming on board as before because of the current economic climate in the Caribbean, the business model has been struggling.
GEORGETOWN: Pakistan’s tour of the West Indies in March 2017 is in no way a signal that the West Indies have decided to make a return tour to that country, a senior WICB official stated late Thursday.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has asked the WICB to consider playing three Twenty20 (T20) matches in Pakistan in March and they would then reciprocate with a tour of Fort Lauderdale in the US, to also play three matches.
The WICB has indicated that they will send an expert security contingent across to Pakistan to report on the security situation before they agree to send the team to Lahore.
According to the official: “Pakistan’s tour of the West Indies has nothing to do with our team going across there to play matches. They are coming here to fulfill their obligations under the Future Tours Programme (FTP) as set out by the ICC.”
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) will now be known as Cricket West Indies (CWI), this according to president of the board Dave Cameron.
The board has also decided to form a corporate entity to deal with the financial aspect of the cricket and this company will be named Windies. According to Cameron, “At this point in time we are no longer called the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) but Cricket West Indies and we have also formed a company to deal with the commercial matters of West Indies cricket and this is called Windies. We continue to explore ways to take West Indies cricket forward and this rebranding is necessary as we move along.”
Cricket West Indies (CWI) now falls in line with Cricket Australia (CA), Cricket New Zealand (CNZ) and Cricket South Africa (CSA) all of whom have rebranded themselves for marketing purposes.