Cricket In Commonwealth Games – On this day in September 1998 the first and only cricket medals in Commonwealth Games history were awarded. Australia defeated South Africa in the gold medal match, while New Zealand won the bronze medal in the 50-over one-day tournament.
Sixteen teams took part, including many untested cricket nations such as Kenya, Scotland, Malaysia and Northern Ireland, but England chose not to field a team due to their struggles with county cricket.
Cricket In Commonwealth Games
Many world cricket stars were there, including Sachin Tendulkar, Curtly Ambrose, Richard Richardson, Shaun Pollock, Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Kallis and Harbhajan Singh. Steve Waugh captained the Australian team which included his brother Mark, Adam Gilchrist, Ricky Ponting, Michael Bevan and current national team manager Darren Lehmann.
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The teams were divided into four groups, proceeding to the knock-out stage of semi-finals and medal matches. Australia’s pool included Antigua and Barbuda, Canada and India. Australia beat Canada in their opening match by nine wickets to go top of their pool. In the semi-final, they bundled out New Zealand by just 58 runs and raised their total for the loss of just one wicket. The final between Australia and South Africa was a close match with Australia’s total of 183 enough to keep South Africa to six runs from 184 runs from 45 overs.
Steve Waugh was the batting star of the tournament with unbeaten scores of 25, 90 and 100 – the only century in Commonwealth Games history.
As many of the Test playing nations are also in the Commonwealth, there was great hope that the sport would return to the Games. When the Indian city of Delhi was awarded the 2010 Games, it was expected that the cricketing powerhouse, home to more than 50% of the Commonwealth’s population, would add cricket to the tournament schedule. But the Indian cricket authorities did not like the 20-20 format of the tournament. After a 2006 board meeting of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), treasurer N Srinivasan said, “The BCCI does not want to play 20-20 cricket in the Commonwealth Games. We believe that the format should not be encouraged.
Formal approaches by the Commonwealth Games Federation to the International Cricket Council in 2012 and 2014 asking for cricket to be included in the 2014 and 2018 Games were formally rejected, dashing any hope that Gold Coast would add the sport to the program.
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“There have been discussions about including men’s and women’s Twenty20 cricket in the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games, but none of these materialized,” an ICC spokesman said in July. 2014.
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THERE ARE! returning to the Commonwealth Games for the first time since 1998. Back then, the men’s day was present at the Games held in Kuala Lumpur.
This is the first time that women have taken part in the Games, with the T20 format in the foreground.
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Women’s T20 has already been confirmed to return for the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Australia, but it is yet to be confirmed whether a men’s competition will be introduced.
This Friday! It all kicks off at 11am local time (8pm AEST) when Australia meet India at Edgbaston in front of what should be a sell-out crowd.
The teams last met in the T20 World Cup opener, when India upset the Australians at home, before Meg Lanning’s side got their revenge in the final, and the last installment of one of the strongest conflicts at home. be another epic.
The ground is a high-profile venue for men in the UK but has rarely hosted women’s games. After sporadic Tests and field ODIs in the 1960s and 1970s, a Women’s International was not played at Edgbaston until a T20 between England and South Africa in 2014, and has not been played since. The Australian women’s team has not played at this ground since 1976.
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Eight teams are divided into two groups of four, with the top two from each group progressing to the semi-finals.
The teams that finish first in their group will play the runners-up from the other group, with the winners of the semi-finals advancing to the gold medal match.
Matches will be played under standard ICC T20I playing conditions, with the Decision Review System available. In the event of a tie, there will be a maximum of two Super Overs per team for each group stage match. In medal matches, the number of Super Overs will be based on the match referee’s call.
August 8 is a reserved day for medal matches, but there is no such arrangement for the semi-finals, with the top-ranked wrestler advancing to the gold medal match.
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Australia and India are favorites to progress from Group A, while England are in good form after their recent series win against South Africa.
The battle for second place in the Group B semi-finals could be one to watch, with South Africa missing three of their biggest stars Marizanne Kapp, Dane van Niekerk and Lizelle Lee, while New Zealand has a new coach in former Australian assistant. Ben Sawyer, as they try to end a six-year absence from major championship issues.
The West Indies are not at the Commonwealth Games, with individual Caribbean countries instead trying to take part. Barbados, captained by Hayley Matthews, will fly the flag at this event. The Caribbean was supposed to hold a qualifying event to determine who was going into the games, but when COVID-19 prevented that from happening, Barbados got the spot instead won the latest national T20 tournament in 2019.
It’s a mixed bag for Australian fans. Pool matches start at 11am or 6pm local time, ie 8pm or 3am in Victoria, NSW, Tasmania, Queensland and ACT, 7.30pm or 2.30am in South Australia and the Northern Territory, or at 18.00 and 01.00 in Western Australia.
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Australia’s matches against India and Pakistan will start at 11am local time, with the match against Barbados starting at 6pm.
The semi-finals will be held on the same day, August 6, and will start at 11am and 6pm local time, but who will play in which slot will not be announced until the group stage ends. Fingers crossed Australia gets prime times so fans at home can catch a glimpse at a reasonable hour!
The Bronze Medal replay starts at 10am local Sunday August 7 (7pm AEST), while the Gold Medal Match starts at 5pm local the same day (2am AEST, Monday August 8th).
Channel Seven has exclusive rights to live coverage, replays and highlights of the Commonwealth Games in Australia.
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Fans can keep up with (and Australia’s quest for gold in all sports!) on Seven, 7mate and broadcast via 7plus. Seven will provide coverage of all Games events, so for unfiltered, uninterrupted coverage, your best bet is to tune into a 7plus stream.
Australia’s Lisa Sthalekar will lead the commentary team, along with Alison Mitchell, former West Indies Stacy Ann King and Natalie Germanos, while radio favorites can tune in to SEN, which will broadcast live commentary from Seven over on their network.
Fans will see a new look for the Australian team at the Commonwealth Games, with Meg Lanning’s team kitted out by the Australian FA’s official kit supplier, Macron.
Most of the gear is ‘Australian gold’ (not canary yellow!) It’s a look not seen on Australian women since the turn of the century, and finally on short men in March 2020 before the pandemic shut everything down.
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The ‘Unity’ symbol of the Commonwealth of Australia, designed by Indigenous artist Jenna Lee as part of a series of works created for the Gold Coast Reconciliation Action Plan 2018, has been removed into the design in detail on the top and bottom of the shirt.
Also notable is the Australian Commonwealth Games logo on the front of the helmet, rather than the usual logo.
Sticking to their trophy cabinet, Australia go in as favorites to win gold, but second-placed England will fancy their chances going in to the competition in good form and with the advantage on the ground.
Lanning’s side are eight points ahead of England in the ICC T20I rankings and have won the last two T20 World Cups in 2018 and 2020.
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1) Australia, 2) England, 3) New Zealand, 4) India, 5) South Africa, 6) West Indies*, 7) Pakistan, 8) Sri Lanka
Squad: Meg Lanning (c), Rachael Haynes (vc), Darcie Brown, Nicola Carey, Ashleigh Gardner, Grace Harris, Alyssa Healy, Jess Jonassen, Alana King, Beth Mooney, Tahlia McGrath, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland, Amanda Jade Wellington.
How they’re watching: Australia just hope the rain stays away, after four of their seven T20Is in 2022 so far have been washed out.
