The rights to India’s home international games for four years from April 2010 have been provisionally awarded to Nimbus Communications for Rs. 2000 crore (US$431 million), according to media reports. The condition attached, the reports say, is that Nimbus must furnish a guarantee by January. Till late on Tuesday evening the Indian board had not [...]
India have named a 15-man squad for the first two One-Day Internationals against Australia later this month showing a number of changes from the ICC Champions Trophy squad. Australia-India ODI series Schedule Batsmen Virender Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh return from injury while uncapped fast bowler Sudeep Tyagi is rewarded for good early season form, which [...]
The Indian board (BCCI) has sacked bowling coach Venkatesh Prasad and fielding coach Robin Singh ten days before the start of a seven-match One-Day International series against Australia. The 15-man squad for the first two matches of that series shows several changes after the disappointing Champions Trophy exit and former internationals Prasad and Singh have [...]
Kolkata’s Eden Gardens is set to host a one-day international after nearly three years when Sri Lanka tour India for in November-December. The Tour Programmes and Fixtures Committee of the Indian board met in Delhi to finalize the dates for the series, which includes three Tests, five ODIs and two Twenty20s, and will announce the [...]
Young spinner Jon Holland was the surprise selection on Friday in an injury-hit Australian squad for their seven one-day match series in India in October-November. Also Read – India announces team for Austalia ODI series The 22-year-old left-arm finger spinner from Victoria impressed playing for Australia A in their recent home series against Pakistan as [...]
An unbeaten ninety nine from JP Duminy provided the sort of start that the Champions League organisers must have dreamt about as he guided his Cape Cobras side past the Royal Challengers Bangalore in a high-scoring tournament opener in Bangalore. Duminy was unbeaten on 99 when the winning runs were scored, Rory Kleinveldt hitting the [...]
India Blue inched past India Red to open the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy tournament with a one-wicket win with just three balls remaining in Nagpur. After India Red, captained by Subramaniam Badrinath, had been bowled out for 248, Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s Blue side scrambled to victory thanks largely to an innings of 87 from Suresh [...]
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday said that opener Gautam Gambhir would figure in India’s Champions Trophy opener against Pakistan on September 26 after having missed the lone warm-up game against New Zealand. “He was cleared by the BCCI experts when he underwent a fitness test in Mumbai before the [...]
The bitter feud in the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) on Thursday prompted the BCCI to shift the opening ODI in the best-of-seven match series between India and Australia, scheduled at Jaipur on October 25, to Vadodara. “We have shifted the first ODI from Jaipur to Vadodara,” BCCI president Shashank Manohar said after the Board’s 80th [...]
The Cricket Board has renegotiated its deal with the event management firm IMG, putting an end to the bitter dispute between the two parties which had thrown the high-profile Indian Premier League in jeopardy. IMG will now be paid Rs 27 crore, a reduction of Rs 6 crore from the stipulated amount, for their services [...]
Recuperating from a shoulder surgery that ruled him out of the ongoing tri-series in Sri Lanka and the subsequent Champions Trophy, Virender Sehwag will lead Delhi Daredevils in next month’s Champions League, the organisers of the Twenty20 event announced on Tuesday. Sehwag had undergone the surgery in England during the Twenty20 World Cup and remains [...]
Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh will be on opposite sides when their respective teams Air India Blue and Air Indian Red take on each other in the finals of Sahara BCCI Corporate Trophy on Tuesday. Both teams reached the title round in similar fashion – Air India Blue beat Tata Sports Club by five [...]
The International Cricket Council will ask the World Anti-Doping Agency to consider a cricket-specific code for its controversial “whereabouts” rule, ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat told Indian media. The influential Indian cricket board rejected the WADA directive last month, backing its players’ refusal to sign up over security and privacy issues. The ICC became a [...]
Rohan Gavaskar returned to the official fold in style with a classy 93 to guide Tata SC to an emphatic 71-run victory over All India Public Sector Sports Promotion Board (AIPSSPB) in the rain-truncated first Group C match of the Sahara BCCI Corporate Cup here on Tuesday. Gavaskar, playing his first official tournament after snapping [...]
The inaugural Group A Corporate Cup match between Air India (Blue) and ITC has been rescheduled after play was rained out at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) stadium here on Tuesday. The 50-over match will now be played Friday. “Both the captains have agreed to reschedule the match,” PCA joint secretary G S Walia said. [...]
Rain played spoilsport on Tuesday night as the opening match between BSNL and fancied Air India Red in the Sahara BCCI Corporate Trophy was abandoned due to rains with both teams sharing two points each. Put into bat, BSNL put on a fighting 258 for seven wickets in the stipulated 50 overs at the M [...]
The Central Organising Committee (COC) of the 2011 World Cup Tuesday recommended that India should host eight of the 14 cricket matches that were scheduled to take place in Pakistan. The COC met here to provide the ICC Board with a recommendation as to where, within Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka, the 14 matches originally [...]
The 2011 World Cup, to be hosted in the sub-continent, was launched in Mumbai on Tuesday with all the fanfare by the International Cricket Council with a member each from most of the previous winners present along with ICC vice-president Sharad Pawar and Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat. ICC World Cup 2011 Schedule Clive Lloyd, the [...]
Former Indian batsman Vinod Kambli has denied making statements against his old friend Sachin Tendulkar or the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on a TV reality show. “I can never say anything against Sachin. We have been friends since childhood and I never blamed him for anything. Most people don’t know how [...]
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will hold lectures for national players to help them deal with the constant pressure from media and passionate fans, domestic media reported on Tuesday. “We’re planning a series of sessions on personality development, dealing with pressure and other things, where we’ll bring in experts to talk [...]