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BBL: Australia’s young player of the year fined A$5000 for bio-bubble breach

Will Sutherland of the Melbourne Renegades has been fined A$5000 for breaching the bio-bubble regulation so the ongoing Big bash League. Sutherland, who was recognised as the Australian Young Player of the Year by Cricket Australia awards just a day before, was charged with sanctions of playing golf and eating with people not part of the bio-bubble during the competition.

Though Sutherland, 21 accepted the charges, he challenged the original sanction of a $10,000 fine with $4000 suspended in a court of commissioner Adrian Anderson and asked for a downgrade. His fine was subsequently downgraded to a $5000.

This year’s BBL has done well to evade all challenges of the covid-19 and give the fans a safe and secure viewing as all the matches had crowd presence. Sutherland’ is the second fault by a bbl player after Heat skipper Chris Lynn and batsman Dan Lawrence were charged for clicking photo and shaking hands with a member of the audience early in the tournament.

"The bio-security protocols have not only kept players, staff, officials and cricket fans safe but have also ensured it has been possible to travel across borders and take the BBL to seven different states and territories by reducing instances of close contact with COVID in the community," Alistair Dobson, the head of the Big Bash, said on the incident.

The final of the BBL is to be played between Sydney Sixers and Perth Scorchers at the iconic Sydney Cricket Ground on 06th February.

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Ban on saliva use made it difficult to maintain the ball: Jasprit Bumrah

The Indian bowlers had a tough day at the office in Chennai after England compiled a total of 263/3 on Day 1 of the first Test of the series. England skipper Joe Root scored his third ton on the trot while opener Dominic Sibley frustrated the Indian bowlers while scoring 87 off 286 deliveries. India caper Jasprit Bumrah who is playing his first Test on home soil suggested that the ban on saliva use has created some problems. “The ball did become soft after a while and the wicket is on flatter side with the bounce being less. You are left with limited options (to shine ball). We are trying to figure out what we can do with the limited things on hand, at that time,” Bumrah said at the virtual media conference. “Yes, it becomes difficult when the ball becomes soft and doesn’t shine really well because of new COVID-19 rules, we can’t use saliva, very difficult during that time to maintain the ball,” Bumrah added. India though did manage to remove Sibley after Bumrah trapped him in front of the stumps. Earlier, England after winning the toss opted to bat first at Chepauk. Openers Rory Burns and Sibley had a decent start before Burns miscued a reverse sweep off R Ashwin when the team score read 63. Burns was dismissed for 33. Daniel Lawrence went back in the hut for a duck but captain Root and Sibley had a stand of 200 runs for the third wicket.

Sachin’s son Arjun Tendulkar registers for IPL Mini -Auction

Legendary Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar’s son Arjun Tendulkar has registered himself for the upcoming IPL 2021 Mini-Auction, which is scheduled to be held on 18th February. Along with Arjun veteran Harbhajan Singh has also enlisted his name in this year's IPL auction even as he was released by his team Chennai Super Kings, earlier this month. He was supposed to have retired after he was released by the CSK. Arjun made his List A debut in the recently concluded Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2021 in which he played two games and took two wickets by giving away runs at an economy rate of 9.57. It was then itself speculated that the 21 year old might be considered for an IPL debut this season and with him registering in the player's auction, most likely he would be picked by some team or the other. Among the other big names listed for the auctions as per reports are Kedar Jadhav, Hanuma Vihari and Bangladeshi all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan.

Shakib injured again; BCB confirms a thigh strain

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) confirmed that ace all-rounder Shakib-Al-Hasan has been diagnosed with a thigh strain. Shakib was carried off the field on the second day of the first Test between Bangladesh and West Indies going on at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhary Stadium in Chattogram. The BCB in an official statement confirmed that it was a new injury and not the same one that the 33-year-old suffered from in the last ODI of the three-match ODI series against the same opposition that concluded last week. “He recovered from his previous groin injury ahead of the first Test and successfully managing to bat in the Bangladesh first innings as well as send down six overs, all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has suffered a strain in a different region of his left thigh while fielding on day two,'' said BCB told the press on Friday. In the first innings, Shakib had scored 68 runs before getting out to Rahkeem Cornwall. While in the field he could bowl only six overs in which he gave away 16 runs without taking a wicket. Whether he would take any further part in the game or not is not clear. ''The injury was confirmed by an MRI scan this morning. The BCB medical team will continue to treat and review his progress over the course of the first Test,'' the BCB statement added.

Mitchell Starc not among 1097 players registered for IPL Mini Auction

A total of 1097 players have registered for the Indian Premier League mini-auction which is scheduled to be hosted on 18th February. The biggest surprise has been of the Australian pacer Mitchell Starc pulling out of the auction. On the domestic front, S Sreesanth, who played his first competitive game for the first time in eight years has also been included in the players’ list. Even though it is just a min auction 21 capped Indian players have registered for it, surprisingly the maximum number of registrations have come from the West Indies, whose 56 players have registered for the mini IPL auction. The other teams in the fray with high registration are Australia with 42 and South Africa with 38. Although a huge number of players have registered for the auctions, even if every franchise were to have the maximum of 25 players in their squad, only 61 players could be taken in the auction and of that 61, only a maximum of 22 overseas players can play. The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy has just concluded and thus a large number of Indian uncapped players, to be precise 743 such players would be in action. There are also 68 uncapped International players in the fray as well. As far as associate nations are concerned, there are 27 players who have registered themselves as being part of associate nations, the highest number of them coming from UAE (9). The auctions on 18th would coincide with the start of the Vijay Hazare Trophy.