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Nimbus gets another 4 years contract from BCCI
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 ...
India announces team for Austalia ODI series
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. Batsmen Virender Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh return from injury while uncapped fa...
BCCI sacks Venkatesh Prasad, Robin Singh
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 show...
Eden Gardens to host India-Sri Lanka ODI
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 th...
Australia team for India ODI series announced
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. The 22-year-old left-arm finger spinner from Victoria impressed playing for Australia ...
2009 Champions League T20: Cape Cobras beat Bangalore Royal Challengers
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. Dum...
NKP Salve Challenger Trophy: India Blue beat India Reds
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 Dhon...
Gambhir fit for Champions Trophy: BCCI
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. “...
1st ODI vs Australia shifted from Jaipur to Baroda
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 th...
BCCI re-negotiates deal with IMG
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 redu...
Sehwag to lead Delhi in CL T20
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 even...
Dhoni vs Yuvraj in Corporate Cup
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 f...
ICC to seek cricket specific WADA code
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 boar...
Corporate Cup: Tata SC beat AIPSSPB
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...
Corporate Cup: AI Blue-ITC match rescheduled
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 ca...
Corporate Cup: Air India-BSNL game called off
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 s...
India to host Pakistan’s 8 World Cup games
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 ...
World Cup 2011 launched in Mumbai
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...
I did not make remarks against Sachin: Kambli
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 sin...
BCCI plans personality development lectures
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...
India, Lanka, Bangladesh to host Pakistan WC ties
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 C...
BCCI aware of Sehwag injury
The BCCI on Thursday came out in his defence saying that it was aware of Virender Sehwag’s shoulder injury before the Twenty20 World Cup squad was picked. The BCCI said that it hoped Sehwag would recover before the tournament got under way but ...
Knight Riders shortlist 6 ICL players
Kolkata Knight Riders coach John Buchanan said the beleaguered IPL outfit is eyeing at least six players who have snapped ties with the ‘rebel’ Indian Cricket League and are eligible to return to mainstream fold. Soon after BCCI granted a...
79 ICL players return to BCCI fold
Seventy nine current players, 11 former Test cricketers and 11 support staff and officials have severed their relations with the ICL and applied to the BCCI to rejoin the mainstream of Indian cricket, the Board said on Tuesday. They are seeking a ret...
