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  The  2020–21 Big Bash League ( BBL ) season   10   will be the tenth season of the KFC Big Bash League , the professional men’s Twenty20 domestic cricket competition in Australia, with 61 matches scheduled to be played. On 15 July 2020, Cricket Australia confirmed the fixtures for the tournament. Subsequently, on 5 November 2020, Cricket Australia announced the revised dates, start times, and matchups for all 56 regular-season games, but venues have been confirmed only for the first 21 matches up until 31 December. The tournament is scheduled to start on 10 December 2020, and finish on 6 February 2021, with the majority of the matches being played at night. New rules There are several changes for the season, including bonus points, substitutions, and free hits for wides, which were suggested by Cricket Australia. However, on 16 November 2020, Cricket Australia announced three changes to the BBL’s playing conditions, which will add a more strategic element to the ...

  England captain Eoin Morgan said there was nothing untoward about a new system of signals from analysts in the dressing room used to send messages to him on the field during limited-overs internationals. “It is 100 percent within the spirit of the game,” he told a news conference on Thursday as England looked ahead to the start of their three-match One Day International series against South Africa at Newlands on Friday. The system was used as England swept the three Twenty 20 internationals against South Africa with England’s analyst Nathan Lemon placing a series of large numbers or letters on clipboards, that were visible from the field, and were meant to help Morgan in his decision-making. “There is nothing untoward about it. It’s about maximising information we are taking in and measuring it against things, like the coach’s recommendation or the data,” Morgan said. “There’s always been constant communication, verbal or physical, from the change room to the field to help i...