Melbourne, Apr 28: A chartered flight to bring back Australian cricketers after the IPL in India is under consideration, the country’s players union said on Wednesday even as sports minister Richard Colbeck made it clear that such a move has not yet been cleared by the government Down Under.
Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA) chief Todd Greenberg said Cricket Australia will talk to the IPL franchise owners on this arrangement but conceded that it will not be a simple thing.
“That’s one of the conversations we’re having with Cricket Australia at the moment about whether or not that’s something that’s available to us,” Greenberg said on 2GB radio as quoted by ‘Sydney Morning Herald’.
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image captionPatrick Foster had nearly £250,000 of gambling debts before his family sent him to rehab
Patrick Foster hit rock bottom in March 2018. The teacher had racked up huge gambling debts and could not see a way forward.
Looking back on his life, the 33-year-old recalled placing his first bet at university. It was just a bit of fun with his friends.
But his taste for gambling became an addiction when his career as a cricketer ended abruptly and he started working in the City.
Things only got worse when he left to be a teacher, borrowing money from his students parents and lying to his colleagues.
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CALLS for an Equality and Human Rights Commission investigation into alleged institutional racism at the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) have been formalised with a solicitors’ letter to the chair of the organisation.
Mohammed Patel, who is representing former umpires John Holder and Ismail Dawood in an ongoing employment tribunal claiming claiming systemic discrimination at the ECB, officially served the request to the EHRC today.
Addressing the chair, Baroness Falkner of Margravine, Patel writes: “On behalf of those that instruct me, I will respectfully submit that the England and Wales Cricket Board has to date failed to adopt the policies that they themselves set out to eradicate racism in cricket.