The Ministry of External Affairs and the Indian High Commission in Pakistan have kept mum about media reports suggesting that India’s tour of Pakistan in January 2009 is in doubt.
The situation could, however, change with the news of a blast outside the main cricket stadium in Pehsawar on Tuesday evening, although the venue is not […]
The ICC has asked the 2011 World Cup organising committee to begin preparations for the tournament for which they are already ten months behind schedule.
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka will be jointly hosting the World Cup expected to be held in February-March 2011. Saleem Altaf, the Pakistan board’s director-general, said normally the committee started […]
The Indian cricket board appears to be heading for a confrontation with ICC over the one-Test ban on Gautam Gambhir. While the BCCI has rejected the decision of the appeals commissioner, Justice Albie Sachs, to uphold the ban, and issued a strongly worded protest, the ICC has said the “matter is closed”.
“The ICC Code of […]
India suffered a huge jolt ahead of the fourth and final Test against Australia with the ICC Appeals Commissioner upholding Gautam Gambhir’s one-Test ban imposed on the in-form opener for elbowing Shane Watson in the last match.
The ICC Commissioner Justice Albie Sach’s decision not to overturn the one-match ban, slapped by Match Referee Chris […]
Former Indian Test captain Anil Kumble has tipped ODI skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni as his suitable successor for Test captaincy.
“It was a transitory phase, can’t expect to be a captain for 5 years. We have an able leader in Dhoni and he is perfectly suited to take over Test captaincy. Team is also looking very […]
The senior selection committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will meet in Nagpur on November five to select the One-Day team for the seven-match series against England starting at Rajkot on November 14.
“The selectors will meet at Hotel Pride in Nagpur to pick the 14-member team for the One-Day series […]
Lalit Modi, the IPL commissioner, has said that only a no-objection certificate from the England board stands in the way of Kevin Pietersen participating in the Twenty20 tournament next season.
“I am very keen for Kevin to take part in the IPL,” Modi said in an interview. “He has already agreed to be part of it, […]
Sri Lankan Cricket (SLC) Chairman Arjuna Ranatunga on Friday blamed the IPL for depriving the board USD 3 million due to cancellation of next year’s England tour because of non-availability of senior Lankan players who will play in the Indian Premier League.
“The SLC would have got USD 3 million including USD 2 million for TV […]
In a statement which could worsen the already strained relationship between BCCI and the Indian Cricket League, Lalit Modi said the ICC cannot grant sanction to the ‘rebel’ league as it does not satisfy the norms of ‘authorised cricket’.
Modi, who is part of a five-member ICC panel to review the laws governing official and unofficial […]
BCCI has reportedly decided to put on hold all future bilateral series with Sri Lanka because of “hostile” statements made by Sri Lanka Cricket chairman Arjuna Ranatunga.
BCCI officials refused to confirm the development while Sri Lankan sources said that talks between the boards had run into rough weather. The dispute had started over a proposed […]
Australia, New Zealand and South Africa have confirmed they are planning a multi-nation franchise-owned Twenty20 tournament based on the IPL, which they hope to launch by 2011. Although the competition is still in the planning stages, the idea is to have city-based teams and schedule it at a time that would allow Indian stars to […]
The Indian Premier League has increased the number of international players who can be on contract with its eight franchisee teams from eight to ten while maintaining that only four can be fielded in the final eleven per match.
The IPL has also decided that a new players’ auction, ahead of its second season in April-May, […]
Kapil Dev, Chairman of the Indian Cricket League (ICL), on Sunday revealed that their talks with the BCCI failed because the Indian Cricket Board wanted them to close their Twenty20 tournament before initiating a dialogue on the matter.
“BCCI told us to first close down Indian Cricket League and then only they shall talk to us,” […]
The International Cricket Council is waiting for a report from the BCCI before deciding whether to recognise the Indian Cricket League, ICC CEO Haroon Lorgat said here on Saturday.
Lorgat revealed that the BCCI had requested a meeting with ICL representatives after the ‘rebel’ league applied for ICC recognition.
In a press release on Thursday, BCCI secretary […]
A day after their talks with BCCI officials failed to make any headway, the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL) on Friday made it clear that it would continue to seek recognition from the ICC and threatened to take legal recourse if the vexed issue was not resolved amicably.
Accusing the BCCI of taking a “rigid stand” […]
Talks between officials of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Indian Cricket League (ICL) on the latter’s application for recognition to ICC failed on Thursday, putting a question mark on reaching a common ground between the two bitter rivals.
Following International Cricket Council (ICC) directives, both parties met here on Thursday but failed […]
The Indian board has agreed to meet officials of the unsanctioned ICL, the first time the two sides will have met since the league was set up in April 2007. This was one of the two major decisions taken on the first day of the ICC Board meeting in Dubai.
ICL officials have welcomed the proposed […]
David Morgan, the ICC president, has said the US$70 million proposal between Sri Lanka Cricket and IPL chairman Lalit Modi is “quite unacceptable behaviour against the background of Sri Lanka’s signed agreement with the ECB”.
The Daily Telegraph has quoted Morgan condemning the deal, which, if ratified by the BCCI, would force the abandonment of Sri […]
Sourav Ganguly has denied comments attributed to him in a Bengali daily. While several Bengali papers have carried interviews with Ganguly, some controversial comments attributed to him in the Kolkata daily Aajkal deal with his omission from the Indian team and the inclusion of several team-mates.
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Dilip Vengsarkar, the BCCI’s former chairman of selectors, has said he will respond to Sourav Ganguly’s criticism of his selection committee at the end of India’s series against Australia and give him “more than what he asked for”.
“I won’t answer him now as this is not the right time because India are in the middle […]