The Pakistan selection committee has made it clear that they were in no mood to consider any player linked with the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL) for the forthcoming one-day series against Australia.
Referring to recent media reports that the selectors had asked the Pakistan Cricket Board for clearance to include some ICL players in the [...]
The first edition of the Champions League Twenty20 has been called off.
The governing council, comprising the founder Board members – Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Cricket Australia (CA) and Cricket South Africa (CSA) held a conference on Friday to finalise new dates for the tournament but they decided to call it off [...]
With difficulties in finding a window for the postponed Champions League, the cricket officials from India, Australia and South Africa have decided to hold a telephonic conference on Friday to sort out a date for the Twenty20 tournament.
Scheduled to be held from December 3-10, the Champions League tournament, which will showcase top domestic Twenty20 teams [...]
There is a possibility of the International Cricket Council (ICC) seriously considering a proposal to shift the 2011 cricket world cup to Australia and New Zealand.
India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are scheduled to stage cricket’s marquee tournament in February and March of 2011, but a meeting of ICC CEOs in South Africa next weekend [...]
The organisers of the postponed Champions Twenty20 League will meet on December 8 to see if they can reschedule the tournament early next year, according to the spokesman of the $6 million tournament.
The eight-team tournament was earlier scheduled to be held in India from December 3-10 but had to be postponed after terror struck Mumbai, [...]
Australia, New Zealand and South Africa have confirmed they are planning a multi-nation franchise-owned Twenty20 tournament based on the IPL, which they hope to launch by 2011. Although the competition is still in the planning stages, the idea is to have city-based teams and schedule it at a time that would allow Indian stars to [...]
International news agency Reuters has suspended coverage of Australia’s series in India as a result of what it has called “unacceptable” conditions imposed by the Indian board.
“The terms that journalists must sign before being given match accreditation include a bar on distributing photographs to cricket website portals which Reuters say is unacceptable,” a statement on [...]
Cricket Australia (CA) on Monday made it clear that the tour to India would go ahead as per schedule.
Cricket Australia’s General Manager of Public Affairs Peter Young said CA would listen to the Australian government’s advice but said the team under Ricky Ponting would depart on September 21, as originally scheduled.
“Our position is that the [...]
Pakistan’s chances of hosting the Champions Trophy next year improved on Sunday after the Indian cricket board said it was willing to adjust its calendar for the sake of the crisis-hit tournament.
The Indian board, which had objected to the event being held in October 2009 as it clashed with its ODI series with Australia, said [...]
The Board of Contorl for Cricket in India (BCCI) will be the biggest gainer as it is windfall time for the three founding members of Champions Twenty20 League after inking the massive US$ 975 million television rights deal with ESPN-STAR, with the Indian board hogging 50 per cent of the amount.
According to media reports here, [...]
The ICC on Thursday admitted that some cricket boards, especially the BCCI and Cricket Australia have objected to the staging of the postponed Champions Trophy in October next year but said Pakistan still retained the right to host the prestigious tournament.
India had objected to that date because of its series against Australia the same month [...]
The Indian Cricket Board on Wednesday rejected the holding of the Champions Trophy in October 2009 becuase of clash of date with the home ODI series against Australia.
The BCCI made their opposition to the Champions Trophy dates in the ICC’s Chief Executives meeting on Wednesday and the matter will be discussed in the ICC [...]
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The 2009 edition of the Champions Twenty20 League will take place next year between September 25 and October 11, and will feature 12 teams, four more than the eight this year in the first edition to be held between December 3-10, 2008.
The dates were announced in a [...]
The inaugural Champions League Twenty20 will be played between December 3 and 10, instead of October, the BCCI, Cricket Australia and Cricket South Africa have announced. Thus keeping in mind the dates change, the first Test between Australia and South Africa in Perth has been pushed back from December 12 to December 17.
The eight-team tournament [...]
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has invited a few Australian educationalists and umpires to train Indian umpires.
A team headed by Ross Turner, Cricket Australia’s Global Development Manager, will be in India on two different visits to Mumbai and Bangalore in August and September.
Turner said, “Me along with Darren Goodger, Graham Chudleigh [...]
The organisers of the Champions T20 League on Wednesday agreed to ‘explore’ the options for scheduling of the inaugural event after the ICC Board held a telephone hook-up on the issue.
“The Board of Control for Cricket in India, Cricket Australia and Cricket South Africa offered to explore, with the ICC’s management, the scheduling of the [...]
The ICC board will discuss on Wednesday the potential impact of the Champions Twenty20 League, which is being held from September 29 to October 8, on the ICC Champions Trophy that ends in Lahore on September 28.
Representatives from BCCI, Cricket Australia (CA) and Cricket South Africa (CSA), the founding partners of the Champions Twenty20 League, [...]
The Champions Twenty20 League announced in Mumbai on Wednesday does not fall under any agreement with the ICC, claims a Cricket Australia official.
“I’m aware about the concern raised by the ICC but the said tournament is not falling under ICC’s Participating Nations Agreement (PNA),” Peter Young, Cricket Australia’s general manager said in Melbourne on Thursday.
“The [...]
The ICC has indicated its displeasure over the conduct of the Twenty20 Champions League immediately after the Champions Trophy in Pakistan in September and has written about this in an email sent to its member boards.
The email said the scheduling of an international event within seven days of an ICC tournament is contrary to ICC [...]
Thanks to the support given by the BCCI, the Champions Trophy will be hosted by Pakistan only and there will not be any further debate on this topic.
This means that Pakistan can now concentrate on the preparations completely while the rest of the world figures out what to do about this situation now. BCCI made [...]