Matches in the 2011 World Cup due to be staged in Pakistan will not take place in the United Arab Emirates, International Cricket Council president David Morgan said here on Thursday. Instead the 14 fixtures will, despite the wishes of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), take place in the three Indian sub-continent co-host nations of [...]
ICC’s three top officials David Morgan, the president, Sharad Pawar, the vice-president and Haroon Lorgat, the chief executive met Subhash Chandra, the owner of the unauthorised league, in a New Delhi hotel on Monday. The official cricket establishment has been working for a while on resolving the problem, which affects more than a hundred banned [...]
Sri Lanka Cricket chairman Arjuna Ranatunga on Monday said he would not mind sending their cricket team to Pakistan if India refuses to tour their subcontinent neighbours as scheduled next month. “We will not hesitate to sent our team to Pakistan in case we are invited,” Ranatunga said. The World Cup winning former captain said [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cricket officials in Canada said they were willing to host the four Test series between India and world champions Australia,if for any reason the Australians felt that travelling to India would be unsafe and were contemplating calling off the series. “We hope the Aussie tour of India will go through. But if the Australians cancel [...]