This week's highlights (July 13-19, 2015)

The Champions League Twenty20 tournament has been officially discontinued and this year's tournament, scheduled to feature the Perth Scorchers and Sydney Sixers in September, cancelled.

The competition was a joint venture between Cricket Australia, Cricket South Africa and the Board of Control for Cricket in India and had run for six years since its launch in 2009. It had pitted the top teams from each nation's domestic twenty20 competition against each other in a high-stakes tournament.

Source: Cricket Australia

Government has given importance in the infrastructure development in its budget today.

Announcing the budget for fiscal year 2015-16, Finance Minister Dr Ram Sharan Mahat allocated Rs 2.07 billion for the overall development of sports in the country. The total amount is more than 500 million more compared to previous fiscal year.

Source: The Himalayan Times

Some officials in major cricket nations such as England have long been resistant to the idea of the sport joining the Olympics, fearing the impact it could have on its own home season.

But others within cricket see the Games as an ideal way to spread the game globally, as emerging nations can receive government funding for Olympic-linked sports.

Source: Fox Sports

Even though Australia is getting a drubbing at the hands of the Poms in the Ashes so far, with England taking the first Test in Cardiff, Network Ten has pledged to bring even more cricket to TV screens this year and expand its deal with the Big Bash League.

Source: Ad News

Vandals used rolling cricket covers to ram a fence in Girton.

The attack happened at Girton Recreation Ground between 1pm on July 5 and 8am the following day.