ICC T20 World Cup 2016, Semi Finals:

The ICC T20 World Cup is reaching the closing stages with the competition now down to just four teams. England take on New Zealand in the first semi-final, while India take on West Indies in the second.The top two teams from each group qualify for the knock-out stages.
 1st semi-final: New Zealand vs England ( Wednesday, 30 March – 1.30pm BST/7.30pm IST
Venue: Feroz Shah Kotla, New Delhi
2nd semi-final: West Indies vs India , Thursday, 31 March – 1.30pm BST/7.30pm IST
Venue: Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
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Coverage of India v Australia match in Mohali

The last game of Group 2 and it will decide the fate of India and Australia and who becomes the last semi-finalist in ICC World Twenty20. Where India have stuck with same 11 throughout the tournament, Australia have used 14 of their 15 options. On head-to-head basis, India-Australia in World T20’s stand at 2-2. Catch live cricket scores and live cricket updates from Twenty20 match here.

Women's World T20: West Indies enter semis, knock India out of tournament

West indies win by 3 runs to enter semifinal, while India's campaign in the tournament ends.
Celebration in the WI camp. India, however, have been eliminated from the tournament. Dottin held her nerve, defending nine off the final over while taking two wickets, and the fourth ball led to a run out. Veda flickered briefly upfront, but West Indies' bowlers choked the chase of 115 with a volley of dots in the middle. The victory, though, was set up by forties from Taylor and Dottin. Mandhana gave India some hope, but tossed it away with an ill-advised late dab. Fletcher complemented Dottin well with two wickets.
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India Vs Australia, World Cup T20 2016

Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, for Match 31 of the ICC World Twenty20 between India and Australia.
The calculators have been put away, the net run-rate taken out of the equation. There is no more dependency on other results going in your favour. Everything now hinges on a three-hour passage of play, the outcome of which will decide which team makes it through to the semifinal as the second qualifier from Group 2 of the ICC World Twenty20.
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Shahid Afridi Reconsidering Retirement From International Cricket

Pakistan skipper Shahid Afridi will go back home before deciding whether to retire from international cricket after his team lost to Australia and were eliminated from the World Twenty20 on Friday.
Australia beat Pakistan by 21 runs in Mohali and Afridi, who had hinted before the game that retirement was imminent, said he has not yet made a final decision to call it quits.
"I'm going to go back home and in the next four-five days I will take a decision and whatever is better for the country, I will go with that. I think I will announce this in my country," the 36-year-old told reporters.
"As a player I'm fine but as a captain I'm not fit because it's not easy to handle the pressure, especially if you are playing for Pakistan... the expectation pressure, the media pressure, everything."
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Pakistan vs. Australia 2016: Match Time and Prediction

With one semifinal place already taken by New Zealand and India closing in on the other, Friday’s World Twenty20 contest between Pakistan and Australia is almost do-or-die. For Pakistan, in what will be their final game of Group 2, a win is the very least that is required to keep their slim hopes alive. For Australia, a defeat wouldn’t spell the end, but it would make things very complicated indeed going into their final match two days later against India.
Prediction: Both teams have had their problems thus far, making it difficult to make any hard and fast predictions. However, while they can never be written off, Pakistan’s problems appear far more fundamental. For Australia, the talent, especially with the bat, is there, it is in large part a matter of finding the right blend. They should be good enough to see off Pakistan.
Match time:

Match 26

Friday March 25th 2016, PCA Stadium

Match starts at 15:00 Local (09:30 GMT)

Pakistan Women under Sana Mir have the best chance to win ICC Women’s T20 2016

Pakistan Women’s captain Sana Mir has always led from the front, and has turned the side into one of the most formidable units in the world. Her off-spinners and useful contributions with bat down the order have taken Pakistan a long way. They are one of the firm favourites to win the ICC World T20 2016 and after beating West Indies Women in their opening match, the team will surely be oozing with confidence for the remaining matches. Sana has led Pakistan Women in 62 Women’s T20Is out of a total of 64 matches since 2009. She has lead Pakistan to great heights during her tenure as captain.  
Sana led Pakistan to a Gold Medal in 2010 Asian Games. She not only flourished as a player, but she has let the others too come up the ranks. She is the eighth-ranked bowler in Women’s ODI ranking, and has consistently been in the top 20 of Women’s T20I rankings for the past nine years.
Sana Mir will be hopeful to lead Pakistan Women to a win the ICC Women World T20 2016.
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ICC Women's Championship

The inaugural edition of the ICC Women‘s Championship kicks off in August 2014 and will see the top eight sides in the game lock horns in a multi-year, bilateral qualifying competition that will lead into the pinnacle event in women‘s cricket, the ICC Women‘s World Cup.
Developed in order to create a more extensive and meaningful bilateral playing programme for women's cricket, the ICC Women‘s Championship will see the eight sides play each other in three One-Day Internationals, either at home or away, between 2014 and 2016.
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India vs Bangladesh ICC World Twenty20 2016

INDIA WIN BY 1 RUN

Absolutely crazy match. Pandya bowls a short of a good length delivery outside off, Hom goes for a slash but misses. Mustafizur charges for a run, Hom relises it late and then sets off. Dhoni, meanwhile, pouches the ball, runs all the way to the stumps and disturbs them. It looks close, the third umpire is called for and replays show Mustafizur was short. Nehra lifts Dhoni as India go wild in celebration. What a crazy match!

England vs Afghanistan ICC World Twenty20 2016

Hello and welcome to the Ferozeshah Kotla, Delhi, for Match 24 of the ICC World Twenty20 between England and Afghanistan.In the recent past, Afghanistan has certainly done more than enough to make opposition teams sit up and notice. All that remains is for it to put together a 40-over sequence of its best cricket. England will be hoping that happens any day other than Wednesday.

New Zealand vs Pakistan ICC World Twenty20 2016

 New Zealand won by 22 runs
That win takes New Zealand through to the semi-finals, the first team to qualify. It looked a bit shaky at the start of the chase, Sharjeel Khan taking the bowlers everywhere, but once the power play was done, New Zealand turned the screw and Pakistan couldn't get the ball away, emphasised by the fact that none of the last 5 overs contained a boundary. The Blackcaps sail through, Pakistan need results to go their way to make it through. Join us tomorrow for two more games in what is shaping up to be a classic WT20!

New Zealand VS Pakistan ICC World Twenty20 2016

Hello and welcome to the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, for Match 23 of the ICC World Twenty20 between New Zealand and Pakistan. Match starts at 19:30 Local (14:00 GMT)
 In the ICC World T20 2016 so far, New Zealand, who beat India by 47 runs, prevailed over Australia by eight runs and plays Bangladesh in its final Group B Super 10s fixture, is best placed to top the table and enter the semis. But Pakistan, who has had mixed fortunes so far, believes it could be in with a serious chance to be the other semifinalist from the pool if it beats Kane Williamson's men at the PCA IS Bindra Stadium on Tuesday (March 22). 
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Australia vs Bangladesh, Live Updates:

Both Australia and Bangladesh come into the encounter having lost their opening game. Australia were defeated by New Zealand while Bangladesh were thumped by Pakistan at Eden. Now both are fighting for survival at ICC World Twenty20 with Bangladesh worse off due to ICC handing down bowling suspensions to Taskin Ahmed and Arafat Sunny for suspect action. Live updates, scores, interactions and commentary from Australia v Bangladesh in Bangalore.
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Australia vs Bangladesh ICC World Cup T20

On Monday (March 21), two teams that have both lost their opening encounters go head-to-head at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore in what is an extremely important ICC World Twenty20 2016 game in Group 2 of the Super 10 phase. Australia and Bangladesh don’t have much history in Twenty20 Internationals, having played each other just thrice – Australia have won all of them – but Chandika Hathurusinghe’s presence in the Bangladesh back room has been a topic of some interest, especially with Mortaza saying the coach has been handing out tips about the Australian players. 
Both teams need a win, and both have men capable of delivering. It will all come down to who executes their skills better on match day.

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Sri Lanka vs West Indies, ICC T20 World Cup 2016:

West Indies, Sri Lanka look to boost semi-final hopes:

Both teams come to the game on the back of convincing victories and will be looking to improve their chances of progressing into the next round. The Lankans beat Afghanistan in their opening game, but the minnows gave them a run for their money.

The Caribbeans beat England in their opening game by six wickets with Chris Gayle bludgeoning the English attack to score a brilliant 100. However, their dependence on him may work in favour of Lanka, who will look to get Gayle out early and try to plough through the middle order which can be vulnerable at times.

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South Africa vs Afghanistan ICC World up T20 2016

South Africa vs Afghanistan Preview 2016 World T20 

South Africa are going to meet Afghanistan in their second match of T20 world cup 2016 on 20th March at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium. Proteas lost the first match after scoring 229 runs against and will definitely be looking what could be the possible target for next matches. Eventually Afghanistan fought well against Sri Lanka in their second roudn game but couldn’t finish it.
South Africa are favorites to win and they have got 60 percent winning chances over Afghanistan.

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Afghanistan Team Squad ICC T20 World Cup 2016

Afghanistan
Asghar Stanikzai (Captain), Noor Ali Zadran, Shahzad Mohammadi, Usman Ghani, Mohammad Nabi, Karim Sadiq, Shafiqullah Shafaq, Rashid Arman, Hamza Hotak, Dawlat Zadran, Shapoor Zadran, Gulbadin Naib, Samiullah Shenwari, Najibullah Zadran, Hamid Hassan, Mirwais Ashraf, Rokhan Barakzai, Najib Taraki, and Yamin Ahmadzai.

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South Africa Team Squad ICC T20 World Cup 2016

South Africa

Faf du Plessis (Captain), AB de Villiers, Kyle Abbott, JP Duminy, Farhaan Behardien, Dale Steyn, Quinton de Kock, Imran Tahir, David Miller, Hashim Amla, Aaron Phangiso, Kagiso Rabada, Rilee Rossouw, Chris Morris, David Wiese.
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India Team Squad ICC T20 World Cup 2016

India Squad for World Twenty20:
MS Dhoni (c & wk), Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Harbhajan Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Ajinkya Rahane, Mohammed Shami, Pawan Negi, Ravichandran Ashwin, Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina, Ashish Nehra, Yuvraj Singh, Jasprit Bumrah.

Pakistan Vs India World up T20 2016

India vs Pakistan in Kolkata has rain threat looming over it. It was gloomy morning in Kolkata on Saturday and it rained. The sun was out in the afternoon but by the time evening set in, it was again dark. At the Eden Gardens, the ground is covered and the groundsmen are sitting at the ground. If rain plays spoilsport, India and Pakistan will share a one point each. But who wants that. A typical, tense India-Pakistan clash is what everyone wants.

Pakistan Team Squad ICC T20 World Cup 2016

Pakistan Squad for World twenty20:
Shahid Afridi (c), Mohammad Amir, Anwar Ali, Imad Wasim, Khalid Latif, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammed Hafeez, Mohammad Irfan, Shoaib Malik, Mohammad Sami, Ahmed Shehzad, Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), Wahab Riaz, Sharjeel Khan, Umar Akmal.
Pakistan are the dark horses in this world t20 championship edition. They are having some serious issues with batting line up and have been failing to score runs. As always their main strength will be fast bowling which is led by Mohammad Amir. Well 2010 world champs, will be eyeing to become wt20 champions in Shahid Afridi’s captaincy and to do that, they have to put really extra ordinary effort to achieve that mile stone.

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ICC World T20 2016: Full fixtures, results, schedule, time and more

ICC World T20

March 15th, Tuesday: New Zeland vs India
19:30 IST (14:00 GMT), Nagpur

March 16th, Wednesday: Pakistan vs Bangladesh
15:00 IST (09:30 GMT), Kolkata

March 16th, Wednesday: West Indies vs England
19:30 IST (14:00 GMT), Mumbai

March 17th, Thursday: Sri lanka vs Afghanistan
19:30 IST (14:00 GMT), Kolkata

March 18th, Friday: Australia vs New Zealand
15:00 IST (09:30 GMT), Dharamsala

March 18th, Friday: South Africa vs England
19:30 IST (14:00 GMT), Mumbai

March 19th, Saturday: India vs Pakistan
19:30 IST (14:00 GMT), Dharamsala

March 20th, Sunday: South Africa vs Afghanistan
15:00 IST (09:30 GMT), Mumbai

March 20th, Sunday: Sri Lanka vs West Indies
19:30 IST (14:00 GMT), Bengaluru

March 21th, Monday: Australia vs Bangladesh
19:30 IST (14:00 GMT), Bengaluru

March 22nd, Tuesday: New Zealand vs Pakistan
19:30 IST (14:00 GMT), Mohali

March 23rd, Wednesday: England vs Afghanistan
15:00 IST (09:30 GMT), Delhi

March 23rd, Wednesday: India vs Bangladesh
19:30 IST (14:00 GMT), Bengaluru

March 25th, Friday: Pakistan vs Australia
15:00 IST (09:30 GMT), Mohali

March 25th, Friday: South Africa vs West Indies
19:30 IST (14:00 GMT), Nagpur

March 26th, Saturday: Bangladesh vs New Zealand
15:00 IST (09:30 GMT), Kolkata

March 26th, Saturday: Sri lanka vs England
19:30 IST (14:00 GMT), Delhi

March 27th, Sunday: Afghanistan vs West indies
15:00 IST (09:30 GMT), Nagpur

March 27th, Sunday: India vs Australia
19:30 IST (14:00 GMT), Mohali

March 28th, Monday: South Africa vs Sri lanka
19:30 IST (14:00 GMT), Delhi

March 30th, Wednesday: TBD vs TBD
19:30 IST (14:00 GMT), Delhi

March 31st, Thursday: TBD vs TBD
19:30 IST (14:00 GMT), Mumbai

April 3rd, Sunday: TBD vs TBD
19:30 IST (14:00 GMT), Kolkata

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India vs New Zealand live streaming 2016 world t20

The 13th match of ICC World T20 2016 is scheduled to be played between India and New Zealand today at Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur.  India vs New Zealand Cricket Match will kicks off at 19:30 local time, 14:00 GMT and 15:00 BST.
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Pakistan vs Bangladesh T20 World Cup 2016 Match ICC WC

Pakistan vs Bangladesh match is the 15th match of ICC T20 world cup 2016 while Bangladesh vs Pakistan match will be played on 16th March 2016 in Eden Gardens, Kolkata. Pakistan is a talented test playing team which has won the T20 world cup once already and they are clear favorites in the match but Bangladesh recent record against Pakistan is very good due to which we can expect that PAK vs BD match on 16th March 2016 will be an interesting match of Group 2 of ICC T20 WC 2016 while BD v PAK match will be played on Wednesday evening.
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ICC World Twenty20 India 2016

he 2016 ICC World Twenty20 will be the sixth ICC World Twenty20 tournament and will be held in India from March 8 to April 3. There have been five different winners of the men’s event while the England women’s team won the inaugural tournament at home in 2009 before Australia won three straight titles in the West Indies, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in 2010, 2012 and 2014, respectively.

A total of 58 tournament matches, 35 men’s matches and 23 women’s matches, will be played in the 27-day tournament in Bengaluru, Chennai, Dharamsala, Kolkata, Mohali, Mumbai, Nagpur and New Delhi. New Delhi and Mumbai will host the semi-finals on 30 and 31 March, respectively, while Eden Gardens in Kolkata will be the venue of the 3 April finals. The women’s semi-finals and final will be followed by the men’s knock-out matches. There is a reserve day for the finals.
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Imran Khan The Great Pakistani Crickter

Imran Khan Niazi (born 5 October 1952) better known as Imran Khan is a Pakistani former cricketer and cricket commentator.Khan played international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century.
Khan was Pakistan's most successful cricket captain, leading his country to victory at the 1992 Cricket World Cup, playing for the Pakistani cricket team from 1971 to 1992, and serving as its captain intermittently throughout 1982–1992. After retiring from cricket at the end of the 1987 World Cup in 1988, owing to popular demand he was requested to come back by the president of Pakistan Zia ul Haq to lead the team once again. At the age of 39, Khan led his team to Pakistan's first and only One Day World Cup victory in 1992. With 3807 runs and 362 wickets in Test cricket, he is one of eight world cricketers to have achieved an 'All-rounder's Triple' in Test matches in Test matches.On 14 July 2010, Khan was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
Imran was at the heart of shaping modern-day Pakistan cricket, and all we love about the team and their play can be traced back to him.At his peak, Imran the bowler was easily among the best in the world, while his skillful batting and inspirational captaincy made him the complete package.
He also made himself into an all rounder worth a place for his batting alone, and captained Pakistan as well as anyone, rounding off his career with the 1992 World Cup. . His averages (37 with the bat, 22 with the ball) put him at the top of the quartet of allrounders (Ian Botham, Richard Hadlee and Kapil Dev being the others).

Virat Kohli. Indian Crickter

Virat Kohli is an Indian international cricketer born on 5 November 1988. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler.
He is the current captain of the Indian team in Test cricket and vice-captain in limited overs formats. In the Indian Premier League (IPL),
he captains the Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Kohli captained India Under-19s to victory at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia. A few months later, He made his ODI debut for India against Sri Lanka.
Kohli played his first Test in 2011 against the West Indies at Kingston.
He has also found success in the Twenty20 format, winning the Man of the Tournament at the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.
Later that year, he became the top-ranked T20I batsman in the ICC rankings.
Kohli has been the recipient of many awards such as the ICC ODI Player of the Year in 2012 and the BCCI's international cricketer
of the year for the 2011–12 and 2014–15 seasons.

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Abraham Benjamin "AB" de Villiers

Abraham Benjamin "AB" de Villiers (born 17 February 1984) is a South African crickter who captains the South Africa Test and One Day International (ODI) teams.
He is widely regarded as the current best batsman in the world and one of the greatest of all time. As of January 2016, he is ranked first and seventh in the ICC ODI and Test batting rankings respectively.
A batsman of breathtaking chutzpah and enterprise, as well as the skills and the temperament required to back up his creative intent. A fielder able to leap tall buildings and still come up with the catch. A wicket keeper who is perfectly at ease donning pads and gloves. A fine rugby player, golfer,badminton, swimming, and tennis player.He was shortlisted for South Africa's junior national hockey team. All AB de Villiers needs to show off his abundant gifts is a ball. Just about any ball.
He made is T20I debut against Australia at Johannesburg, Feb 24, 2006.
He made is ODI debutagainst England at Bloemfontein, Feb 2, 2005.
He made is Test debut against England at Port Elizabeth, Dec 17-21, 2004.
He holds the records for the fastest 50 (16 balls), 100 (31 balls) and 150 (64 balls) of all time in One Day Internationals by any batsmen, and also holds the fastest hundred by a South African in Tests and the fastest 50 by South African in T20Is. He is the three time ICC ODI player of the year having won the award in 2010, 2014 & 2015.
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Sir Donald Bradman

Sir Donald George "Don" Bradman,  AC (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001), often referred to as "The Don", was an Australian crickter, widely acknowledged as the greatest Test batsman of all time. Bradman's career test bating average of 99.94 is often cited as the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport.

 Sir Donald Bradman of Australia was, beyond any argument, the greatest batsman who ever lived and the greatest cricketer of the 20th century. Only WG Grace, in the formative years of the game, even remotely matched his status as a player. And The Don lived on into the 21st century, more than half a century after he retired. In that time, his reputation not merely as a player but as an administrator, selector, sage and cricketing statesman only increased. His contribution transcended sport; his exploits changed Australia's relationship to what used to be called the "mother country".

Bradman made his first class debut at the Adelaide Oval, aged 19.  In all, he went to the crease 80 times in Tests, and scored 29 centuries. He needed just four in his last Test innings, at The Oval in 1948, to ensure an average of 100 ­- but was out second ball for 0, a rare moment of human failing that only added to his everlasting appeal. Bradman made all those runs at high speed in a manner that bewildered opponents and entranced spectators. Though his batting was not classically beautiful, it was always awesome.

Playing in only his tenth first-class match, Bradman, nicknamed "Braddles" by his teammates, found his initial Test a harsh learning experience. Caught on a sticky wicket. Australia were all out for 66 in the second innings and lost by 675 runs (still a Test record). Following scores of 18 and 1, the selectors dropped Bradman to twelth man for the Second Test. An injury to Bill Ponsford early in the match required Bradman to field as substitute while England amassed 636, following their 863 runs in the First Test. RS Whitington wrote, "... he had scored only nineteen himself and these experiences appear to have provided him with food for thought".Recalled for the Third Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Bradman scored 79 and 112 to become the youngest player to make a Test century, although the match was still lost. Another loss followed in the Fourth Test. Bradman reached 58 in the second innings and appeared set to guide the team to victory when he was run out It was to be the only run out of his Test career. The losing margin was just 12 runs.

After his wife's death in 1997, Bradman suffered "a discernible and not unexpected wilting of spirit. Hospitalised with pneumonia in December 2000, he returned home in the New Year and died there on 25 February 2001, aged 92.

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Australia Cricket Board (ACB)

Cricket Australia (CA), formerly known as the Australian Cricket Board (ACB), is the governing body for professional and amateur cricket in Australia.
What is now known as Cricket Australia was established in 1905 as the "Australian Board of Control for International Cricket". Before its establishment, tours by
Australian teams to England were organised and funded by private groups or by the players themselves. Similarly invitations to English teams were made by private promoters or by individual clubs, such as the Melbourne Cricket Club. The predecessor organisation, the Australasian Cricket Council which had existed from 1892 to 1898 but was ineffective due to a lack of funding. Its one lasting action was to establish the Sheffield Shield, the major cricket competition between the Australian colonies.A draft constitution was discussed by members of the New South Wales, Victoria, South Australian and Queensland associations.The first meeting of the new board was held at Wesley College in Melbourne on 6 May 1905.
Cricket Australia's organizational structure is designed to efficiently operate the game, and is divided into separate components focused on specific responsibilities such as: Cricket Marketing Services, Cricket Operations, Finance and Business Services, Game Development, Legal and Business Affairs, and Public Affairs.

Cricket Australia is an administrative organization responsible for cricket in Australia. Cricket Australia has six member organizations that represent each of the Australian states. These organizations are:
     New South Wales – Cricket NSW
    Queensland – Queensland Cricket
    South Australia – South Australian Cricket Association
    Tasmania – Tasmanian Cricket Association
    Victoria – Cricket Victoria
    Western Australia – Western Australian Cricket Association

Cricket Australia is in charge of regional development of cricket in the Pacific region, under the International Cricket Council's development program.
Each of the state cricket associations that are members of Cricket Australia also selects a representative side to participate in Australia's major domestic cricket tournaments.

According to its website and its Facebook page, cricket.com.au  is the official website of the digital media division of Cricket Australia.


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