Coaches in the Hundred have raised questions about how squads in the competition will look next year, suggesting that a partial re-draft of squads will be necessary ahead of the tournament's delayed launch in 2021.

Players' contracts were terminated on Monday through a 'force majeure' clause following the tournament's postponement and the ECB has opened discussions with the Professional Cricketers' Association (PCA) and other stakeholders in the past few days to work out what will happen to squads.

And while there seems to be little appetite for a total re-draft, question marks over Kolpak players, overseas availability, and possible retirements mean that freezing the squads would prove close to impossible.

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Under the competition's planned retention rules, teams were able to keep up to ten players from their initial squad for the 2021 edition of a tournament, at a salary band negotiated with the player. Another draft would then follow for teams to fill the gaps in their squads during the winter, with the lower number of players to pick allowing a shorter and more focused programme for TV. A modified version of this system seems - at an early stage - to be the most likely solution.

Speaking on a Sky Sports podcast, Shane Warne and Tom Moody - coaches of London Spirit and Oval Invincibles respectively - said that there would be issues with keeping the same squads for 2021.

"It'll be two years basically when the Hundred starts from when we did the auction [draft]," Warne said. "There'll be different players, some players might retire, so I'm not sure how they're going to - will they start from scratch again, where you have to put together different squads? Will they have a ten-player core of that squad and then you can only pick ten players?

"It'll be interesting to see what the ECB come up with about the rules and whether they say 'you know what, we're going to start again' or another alternative. I think everyone was pretty happy with the squad they had but two years later from when the auction [draft] is, there's a lot of time passed as to how players develop in that time. It'd be interesting to see how it affects them. People might be playing international cricket then, might have got elevated so they're not available as much, so you might have chosen a different squad."

In the London Spirit squad Warne picked, there are four players who would be 35 or older at the start of next year's competition: Joe Denly, Jade Dernbach, Mohammad Nabi, and Roelof van der Merwe. Kyle Abbott, initially selected as a local player thanks to his Kolpak registration, would have to be picked as an overseas player. Moody's Invincibles squad has fewer issues in terms of age, but he has a similar problem with Kolpak players having signed Rilee Rossouw and Hardus Viljoen for £75,000 and £60,000 respectively.

"I think most teams would be pretty comfortable with the squads they've got. Not only did most teams plan to have a squad that was capable of winning in the first year, I think they had also a long-term eye as well with regards to making sure that they had players they wanted to be part of their franchise for years to come," Moody said.

"I think there are some tricky little hurdles that the organisers will have to get their head around. One of the ones that really stands out for me is the Kolpak player situation - it [the loophole] is due to expire at the end of December this year, so teams that had picked Kolpak players knowing that they had them for the first year but then would have had to make a decision with them the following year, with regards to whether they keep them on board as an overseas or let them go back into pasture."

PCA chairman Daryl Mitchell has taken the lead in discussions and has led multiple calls with county representatives and other senior players since the tournament was officially postponed last Thursday. Of the 21 county reps (three counties have two), six have contracts in the Hundred: Ben Cox, Luke Fletcher, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, David Payne, Max Waller and Chris Wood. Others, such as Jake Ball and Jack Taylor, would have been well-placed to win selection as a 'wildcard' through performances in the T20 Blast.

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Both men's and women's players were notified via a letter on Monday that their contracts had been terminated. An ECB spokesperson said: "This letter is necessary paperwork to legally update and inform players of the situation, which follows a notification last week around the launch of the new competition being moved to 2021. We are currently working with the PCA and other key stakeholders with regard to player selection and retention for the first edition of the Hundred in 2021."

Selection and retention for the women's competition is less likely to raise concerns, with players signed by teams partly based on location via an informal recruitment process rather than a draft. Charlotte Edwards, the former England captain and Southern Brave head coach, said on Sunday it was a "worrying time" for the women's game following the tournament's postponement, with several players set to miss out on deals in the short term.

While the Hundred's postponement has been confirmed, the ECB has downplayed reports that a revised schedule for the summer could include no women's cricket. "We're working alongside all international boards whose men's or women's teams are due to come here this summer," said a spokesperson.

Eoin Morgan has reiterated his belief that the T10 format could be the vehicle for getting cricket into the Olympics, given that its brevity could allow multiple matches to be contested in a shortened timeframe.

Cricket has not featured at the Olympics since 1900, when Great Britain beat France in a one-off gold medal match at the Velodrome de Vincennes in Paris.

It has since been staged as a 50-over competition at the Commonwealth Games in 1998, when South Africa won gold, and has been included for the 2022 event in Birmingham, when eight teams will take part in a women's T20 competition.

However, Morgan - speaking at the launch of the Abu Dhabi T10 - reckoned the shortest format yet could be the one to catch on at a global games.

"The one thing that T10 offers above the three formats that makes it so appealing to an Olympic games or a Commonwealth games is the fact that you can play a whole tournament in the space of 10 days," he said.

"To have a tournament in such a short space of time maximises the opportunity and the exposure that it will have for the sport."

"When you can play a cricket tournament in 8-10 days it really does make it appealing, and on top of that it really would be extremely entertaining."

Though critics of the shortened format believe that ten-over cricket takes out a lot of the game's nuances and strategies, Morgan insisted that there was a lot more depth to the contests than meets the eye.

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"The most important part of a T20 game is always overs 10 to 20," he said. "But if you look at a T10 game, the earlier overs are the most important. You need to make the most of that very short powerplay, so who you put in those key positions and in the form that they're in, is the most critical factor.

"And equally, when you're bowling, it's about having the most effective guys on and performing in the biggest part of the game, because in T10, you can be so far behind the game if you let the opposition get off to a really good start."

Morgan pointed to the T10's move last year from its original base in Sharjah to the Sheikh Zayed stadium in Abu Dhabi, where the pitch conditions proved more varied from match to match.

"When we were in Sharjah it was just 'crash bang wallop'," Morgan said. "The characteristics of the wicket changed day by day this year, and I think that's a good thing because it allows teams to adapt and apply themselves to whatever the best way is for that for that wicket.

"There were still high scores, but the ball was probably a little bit more in the game which I think cricket purists really enjoy," he added. "But also there was that factor that, if you flick the TV on, you would see something entertaining, and you would see a number of icons of the game playing throughout the day.

"Another appealing thing about the tournament, over one of the other three formats, is that when you purchase a ticket or you turn the TV for a certain day's play, you might get to watch your favourite batsman or one hero player, whereas with T10 you get to have a look at three, maybe even four games at a push on one particular day.

"Every team has an icon or one highly-prized professional player that people want to come and watch, that's extremely appealing."

The 2020 Aldar Properties Abu Dhabi T10 is scheduled for November 19-28 at Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi

THE SEASIDE METROPOLIS of Busan is home to the Lotte Giants, a team famous for its zealous fans. On a sticky July evening, thousands of them file into Sajik Stadium, a concrete bowl surrounded by high-rises. After surveying the field, I decide to skip the Camping Zone (an outfield seating area with tents) and the Exciting Zone (along the first-base line) and sit in a section dense with fans wearing headbands with a little seagull -- Lotte's mascot -- fastened like antennae. When the game begins, they're quietly munching on dried squid and sliced pig feet. Aside from the snacks and signs, the scene feels similar to an MLB outing.

Then, halfway through the first inning, everything changes.

As the home team prepares to bat, four women wearing luminescent makeup and denim microshorts strut onto a raised platform. They look like K-pop stars. A small, spry man wearing a Lotte uniform -- the "cheermaster," I later learn -- hops out in front. As someone bangs on a traditional drum, he lifts a bullhorn and starts bouncing, clapping his hands wildly. When the Giants' leadoff hitter, Son Ah-seop, emerges from the dugout, loudspeakers start blaring music, and everyone around me rises, performing the same dance and chant:

Giants Son Ah-seop Son Ah-seop
Seung Ri Rul We Hae! Oh Oh!

When Son's at-bat ends, the crowd goes quiet. Then, seconds later, it starts again -- new batter, new song, new dance.

Lotte Giants Anta Kim Moon-ho
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh

Throughout the game, the fans perform a variety of coordinated moves: tomahawk chops, gentle thrusts, wax-on, wax-off hand motions. Several of them follow the lead of a burly, bearded American wearing a Giants jersey. His name is Kerry Maher, and he's attended every Giants home game since moving here a few years ago to teach at a rural university, becoming something of a local celebrity. "They call me Lotte Grandfather," he says. "Now everywhere I go, I'm stopped."

The entertainment is relentless. After high school girls perform in a dance competition called "Giants Idol," the LED stadium lights abruptly shut off and everyone raises a cellphone, forming a flickering mass. Later, a silent army of workers distributes thousands of orange plastic bags, which the fans inflate into balloons and tie to their heads like billowing hats; from above, the crowd must look like an ocean of buoys. At the end of the game, everyone unties the bags and uses them to clean up trash.

A few years ago, my translator says, a drunk fan climbed the foul pole at Sajik Stadium and refused to come down. The team no longer allows liquor to be brought in, but the fan base still feels rowdier, and younger, than the typical MLB crowd. The seats are packed with 20-somethings, many of whom are women; my section stands for the entire game, screaming and dancing until the end. "I tell everyone: 'MLB is like opera, and KBO is like rock 'n' roll,'" Maher says.

Early in the game, LMFAO's "Shots" comes on, the designated song for Choi Jun-seok, a slugger whose girth puts Bartolo Colon's to shame. As the crowd dances (Choi's routine involves finger guns), he steps to the plate and lifts his bat above his head, then slaps a routine grounder up the third-base line.

He flips his bat.

After Choi is thrown out and lumbers back to the dugout, I watch to see if he's embarrassed -- he isn't -- then glance at the fans sitting around me. Did anyone just see that? No one reacts.

A few at-bats go by. Then, in the third inning, it happens again: Kim Ho-ryeong, an outfielder on the visiting Kia Tigers, flies out to center field ... and flips his bat. Na Ji-wan, a slugger on the Tigers, smacks a two-run homer ... and flips his bat. His teammate, Kim Joo-chan, flips his bat after a double. As the game progresses, the bats keep flying, sailing toward the on-deck circles like footballs spiraling out of a Jugs machine. The pitchers barely blink.

THE NEXT DAY, I arrive at the stadium a few hours before the rematch and spot an American lingering in the dugout. Josh Lindblom, one of the Giants' pitchers (teams are allowed to roster three foreigners), is a lanky, affable 29-year-old from Indiana. A second-round draft pick by the Dodgers in 2008, he bounced around the majors for a few seasons before landing in Korea last year.

Lindblom and I sit in a stairwell just outside the locker room, shouting over the wails of a Korean girls choir. I ask about the flips. "The first year -- I don't think I was pitching -- I saw somebody do it and I was like: 'What was that?'" he says. "Somebody told us it might happen. 'Don't freak out. Don't get mad. It's just what they do.'" Lindblom says he doesn't know why Korean hitters flip so often, or why some do it and others don't. "I don't even notice it anymore," he says. "It happens so much, I'm like, whatever."

Over the course of two days, I interview players on both the Giants and Tigers, many of whom, I'm told, rarely speak to the foreign media. The Tigers' bench coach, Cho Gye-hyun, is a former pitcher in the KBO. He tells me bat flips have never bothered him because he believes players don't do them on purpose. "It's natural," he says. "They don't have time to think about bat flips; they're thinking about hitting the ball."

When I mention I've seen KBO players wait a few seconds before flipping their bats -- pimping their hits, in American parlance -- Cho scrunches his nose. "It's a habit," he says. "It grows in them from elementary school."

While some hitters take batting practice (notably, no one flips his bat), I camp out in the dugout and wait. Eventually, Kim Joo-chan, who at 35 is one of the Tigers' oldest players, grabs a water bottle and sits down. I tell him that I've seen clips of his celebrations, and Kim shrugs impassively. "It's just spur-of-the-moment," he says. "I'm not aware that I'm doing a flip." He tells me to interview his teammate Lee Bum-ho.

A few minutes later, Lee, who has a round face and a warm smile, plops onto the bench. When I bring up bat flips, his grin disappears. "I don't realize that I'm doing it," Lee says. He pauses for a moment, searching for an explanation. "Asian players -- we have to put our full strength into the swing." He pantomimes a vicious hit, his wrists contorting as he pretends to release an imaginary bat after contact. "That's why the bat flips come out." (A month later, Kurtz will tweet a video of Lee flipping a bat after a walk and inadvertently hitting the umpire.)

I ask Lee if he flips his bat to impress his dancing, chanting fans, and he shakes his head. "I don't pay attention," he says. "I don't know why." He tells me he isn't the best flipper in the league. That's Choi Jun-seok, the slugger for the hometown Giants. "Choi is the person who throws it the farthest. He uses his whole body."

And so I find myself face-to-face with Choi, who is sweating profusely after taking a few practice swings in the boiling heat. Up close, I can see he's wearing a small hoop in one ear. As he mops his face with a towel, I lob a few questions: Do you do anything special for your fans?

"No."

What does it feel like when you flip your bat?

"I'm not doing it on purpose, so I don't have any feeling."

Are you aware that people overseas enjoy your flips?

"I'm not."

After a few minutes, my translator thanks Choi for the interview. We all bow.

Before the game begins, I leave the stadium and meet up with Ryan Sadowski, a Lotte scout from Los Angeles who pitched for three years in Korea after a stint with the San Francisco Giants. Over a boiling pot of chicken, Sadowski tells me he enjoys the jubilance of Korean baseball. Players don't just revel in their hits, he explains, they also celebrate after defensive plays. "It's just a totally different culture," he says. "I found that as a player I didn't allow myself to enjoy my success the way I should have because it's the game of baseball. You're not supposed to show that you enjoy your success. I think it's something I learned here, that I would take to younger kids in the States." I tell him about my interviews thus far, describing how the players insist that the flips aren't intentional and that they take no joy in them, despite visual evidence to the contrary. Sadowski doesn't seem surprised.

"If they were to admit it ... they won't admit it to American reporters," he says.

Over the past four years, I've become something of a connoisseur of World Series final-out celebrations. Beginning with the last play of the 2016 World Series -- the little grounder hit by Cleveland's Michael Martinez that the Cubs' Kris Bryant turned into a historic clinching out -- I've taken a smartphone video of those climatic moments from the press box.

In those ecstatic moments, there is no hierarchy. Every player in that pile of ballplayers rolling around on the field has accomplished the No. 1 goal of that campaign -- to be the last team left standing. And yet, we know that all champions are not created equal. Some are good-but-not-great teams who got hot at just the right time. Some are powerhouses that dominated their leagues. These days, the population of the former group is growing thanks to the ever-expanding format of baseball's postseason. Now more than ever if the best team in a season ends up in that Series-ending dogpile, it's kind of a coincidence.

On Monday, Sam Miller unveiled his ranking of all 115 World Series ever played. Now I'm going to place those 115 champions into a hierarchy based on my estimate of just how good each title team really was. To do this, I've employed a little art and a little science. The rankings are based entirely on statistical ratings (the science), but the choices made to build the system employed a good bit of subjective judgment (the art).

Before getting into the tiers and highlighting some of the teams within each one, let me walk through some of the choices I made in building the system. Some general criteria:

1. What did they do? That is, how many games did they win? How many runs did they score and allow? Teams are rated in this general category for both one-year and three-year performance. The three-year measurement works against flash-in-the-pan champions, such as the 1987 Twins or the 1914 Braves, and aids the teams who validated their dominance over a multiyear stretch.

2. How much talent did they have? To answer this, I combined two methods. Using the new version of AXE (awards index estimate), I created updated best-in-game ratings for every player back to 1901. Then by weighting the AXE scores for each player by playing time, I generated a team AXE score. This gives us an estimate of how much in-their-prime talent each team has had.

Ever heard of a hairdo so bad that it would likely be banned from the training ground?

If not, then check out Castleford Tigers' Peter Mata'utia and his pink rat-tail.

With the Super League season paused and the United Kingdom in lockdown, it is the sort of DIY style that you hide behind closed doors... and from your coach.

"I get to try things that I wouldn't normally try because I don't think Powelly [Tigers head coach Daryl Powell] would be a fan of it," Mata'utia told BBC Sport.

"It's a good time to muck around with your hair, dye it or get the mohawk you always wanted as a kid."

The Australia-born Samoa international says adding a splash of colour to his hair - which he describes as a "long mullet, ratty-type thing" - isn't all just a style choice.

There is also a hugely important cause behind it as an ambassador for social care charity Community Integrated Care.

The 29-year-old is among a growing number of UK-based sports stars, including England rugby union captain Owen Farrell, to take up the #CareWithHair challenge, donating what money he would normally spend at the hairdressers to the social care provider instead.

With Mata'utia's mother, Matalena, still working as a care home nurse in Australia, the cause is also a deeply personal one for the former St George Illawarra and Newcastle Knights player.

"I've always been proud of my mum," the versatile back said.

"It's tough right now but she enjoys working with older people, looking after them - she loves her job.

"She is determined to help out and do her part in this pandemic. Because of what my mum is doing, this cause means a lot to me.

"Getting and paying for a haircut is an everyday thing. This is just taking that money and putting it to something really important.

"It's something you can have fun with. Pink is one of the colours of Community Integrate Care's logo, so I thought it would help generate more attention."

Community Integrated Care - one of the UK's biggest social care providers, supporting thousands of people with learning disabilities, dementia, autism and mental health concerns - says that £2m has been spent on personal protective equipment (PPE) in the six weeks since lockdown began to ensure the frontline services they deliver continue in these difficult circumstances.

The impact of Covid-19 on people in care homes has been hard to calculate, as there are more than 15,000 care homes in England alone, compared with about 200 hospital trusts.

But an estimated third of all coronavirus deaths are happening in care homes.

"Right now, our staff are helping people to cope with the anxiety and disruption that self-isolation causes, wear PPE and protect the people they support, and in some cases face up to the devastating impact of an outbreak," John Hughes, the charity's director of partnerships and communities, said.

"When you're spending so much on the essentials, it becomes even more challenging to fund the important things that also make a huge difference.

"Every penny raised by the #CareWithHair challenge will fund vital assistance for our carers and frontline care services.

"For the people we support, that will include purchasing items that will bring them comfort and joy - from technology to stay in touch with families, through to games and activities, or even projectors, so people receiving end-of-life care can be comforted watching the things that are important to them."

Having Mata'utia sport a gnarly do is an extension of his and rugby league's involvement in the charity, which last year saw Super League and Community Integrated Care form a "ground-breaking" learning disability competition.

The fundraising cause has also transcended rugby codes, with England and Saracens fly-half Farrell sporting a lockdown crew cut.

The 28-year-old was nominated to chop his locks by former Great Britain prop and rugby league commentator Terry O'Connor.

As someone who played with the England and Saracens star's father, Andy - who is now head coach of Ireland - at Wigan, O'Connor says the short back and sides is a far cry from a long forgotten style the fly-half once sported.

"I have actually seen Owen with a mullet when he was a kid," O'Connor said with a laugh.

"His dad has that horrific beard - black with streaks of grey in it - now and I keep asking when he is going to trim it. I couldn't nominate him for this because he's not on social media, but it is ridiculous.

"I've been looking like Captain Caveman myself, so getting the hair chopped at home without losing any part of my ears or skin was a bit of fun.

"Everyone needs a haircut and this is one that can really help at what is a tough time during this horrible pandemic. This is a simple way for everyone to make a big difference right now, and I hope that supporters of all sports get involved."

Flanker Sam Cane has been appointed the new captain of the All Blacks, following Kieran Read’s retirement after the 2019 Rugby World Cup.

The 28-year-old, who made his Test debut in 2012, has 68 caps and was part of the World Cup-winning team in 2015.

"There's massive respect for Sam amongst the players and management,” said new head coach Ian Foster.

Foster replaced Steve Hansen as head coach of New Zealand after the 2019 World Cup.

“He's perfectly placed to lead the All Blacks into the future.”

Cane, who captains the Chiefs in Super Rugby, suffered a serious neck injury in 2018 but recovered in time for the World Cup in Japan, where New Zealand lost to England in the semi-finals.

The forward said of his new role: “It’s a pretty exciting challenge really and as I've spent more time in the All Blacks and grown as a player, I've become a lot more comfortable being a leader in the team.”

The Premier League is considering playing halves less than 45 minutes long when football returns from the coronavirus pandemic, according to Professional Footballers' Association chief executive Gordon Taylor.

Following a video conference involving all 20 Premier League clubs last week, the determination to complete the season, which has been suspended since March 13, was re-stated by the league.

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Sources have told ESPN that the season will be concluded behind closed doors at neutral venues and Taylor has suggested that league matches could be shortened.

"I'm talking about protocol that's coming out, I'm talking about the future," he told BBC Radio 4."We don't know the future, what we do know is what propositions have been put forward and ideas.

"More subs, games possibly not being full 45 minutes each way, neutral stadiums, there's lots of things put forward.

"We're trying to wait to see what proposals are and have the courtesy to let the managers and coaches and players assimilate all those and come to a considered view."

English Football League chairman Rick Parry also told the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee: "I don't think we should be ruling out any creative ideas at the moment given all the challenges we face...perhaps the thinking is it would alleviate the tiredness."

La Liga is another league where changes are being considered to the game, with ESPN sources saying they want to include conversations between players, coaches and referees during games, picked up by pitchside microphones.

Sources have also told ESPN that a growing number of Premier League players do not want to play football during the global pandemic.

The major job losses at Cricket Victoria caused by the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic have claimed the Melbourne Renegades' WBBL head coach Tim Coyle who had been in the role three years.

Last week Cricket Victoria confirmed a significant restructuring of its organisation in the wake of cost-cutting measures with community cricket especially hard hit.

During Coyle's time the Renegades reached the finals in both the 2018-19 and 2019-2020 seasons.

"The challenges delivered by the current climate have forced us to reassess every area of our High Performance program and unfortunately this has led to the end of Tim's tenure with the Renegades," Cricket Victoria's general manager of cricket Shaun Graf said.

"This certainly takes nothing away from Tim's contribution to the Melbourne Renegades in his time as Head Coach. He's led the club to back-to-back finals campaigns and a number of players have graduated to the national team under his direction.

"We'd like to thank Tim for his hard work over the last three seasons and wish him well for the future."

Last year the Melbourne BBL teams, the Renegades and the Stars, were brought under the Cricket Victoria structure. They have both lost major sponsors in recent months.

Coyle's departure also means both teams are now searching for a new head coach after Leah Poulton quit her position with the Stars after less than a month to take up a job as head of female cricket with New South Wales.

Brendon McCullum has called for greater New Zealand involvement in the Big Bash League later this year if the availability of overseas players - and international cricket overall - remains restricted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

There are positive signs that the Australian season could take shape somewhat as scheduled - there even remains hope that the men's T20 World Cup could be played in October - with every effort being made to enable to the lucrative series against India to survive. Cricket Australia has started conversations with the federal government about what protocols would need to be in place to allow international teams to visit later in the year.

While there remain plenty of hurdles to cross before full-fledged international sport can take place, there has already been progress in links between Australia and New Zealand resuming with the Warriors rugby team arriving in Tamworth, New South Wales at the weekend to prepare for the resumption of the NRL later this month and there are talks at the government level about a travel "bubble" between the two countries.

"If there is a shortage of international cricket what an opportunity for the Big Bash, which if we are being honest has probably just tailed off a little bit of late, what a great opportunity to really morph that back into Australia sporting fans' eyes," McCullum, who had eight seasons with the Brisbane Heat, told SEN radio. "And I think what a great opportunity to maybe bring a New Zealand team into the Big Bash or use New Zealand players as local players because there may be a distinct lack of overseas players.

"A little bit of creative thinking. It may be just for one season but we have to prepare for the long-term if you are going to grow the game there may be some value."

However, if New Zealand's international players are not playing in December and January - they are due to have a visit by Pakistan - NZC would likely see it as a chance to have them available for the T20 Super Smash, which usually runs concurrently with the first part of the Big Bash from mid-December.

One of the contingency plans in place should next season be disrupted is the potential for Australia and New Zealand to play each other if movement between those two countries is more feasible than broader international travel. There are two ODIs left to play from the curtailed series in March plus three T20Is that were due to be hosted in New Zealand.

The Big Bash will mark its tenth anniversary in the 2020-21 season and, before the pandemic, had commissioned a review by David Barham, the television executive who was central to the BBL's rise while at Channel 10, into what could be done to revitalise the competition. The most intriguing suggestion out of the review was the prospect of four-innings T20 matches in an attempt to ensure contests are alive for longer.