Shandre Fritz

SA20 has assembled an experienced panel of 21 match officials, featuring top umpires like Marais Erasmus and Lauren Agenbag for Season 3. Shandre Fritz, a former Proteas Women captain, joins as match referee. The Umpire Exchange Programme includes James Middlebrook from ECB. The tournament began in Gqeberha, with MI Cape Town beating Sunrisers Eastern Cape

The West Indies players were fined 40 per cent of their match fees for maintaining a slow over-rate during the ICC Women's ODI World Cup match against India here.

In a significant first for world cricket, the ICC on Friday named an all-female panel of match officials, including the Indian trio of GS Lakshmi, Vrinda Rathi and Janani Narayanan, for the upcoming Women's T20 World Cup in South Africa.

India's Arundhati Reddy has been reprimanded for giving a fiery send-off to Pakistan's Nida Dar during the Women’s T20 World Cup in Dubai. Found breaching ICC's Article 2.5, Reddy received a formal reprimand and one demerit point. She admitted to the offence, avoiding a formal hearing, with the charge levelled by multiple umpires.

South Africa batsman Hashim Amla has been nominated in the Cricketer of the Year category for the second year in a row.

In some stats of the shortest format of the game, women cricketers have fared better than their male counterparts.

Anjum Chopra joined Australia captain Karen Rolton and her England counterpart Charlotte Edwards who will all represent their respective countries in the 4th successive ICC Women's World Cup in Australia.

Injured Zaheer Khan has something to cheer about as he has been nominated in three categories for 2011 ICC Awards to be held in London on September 12.