Update: Shoaib Akhtar cannot play in IPL. Rediff reports:
The IPL’s Governing Council Chairman Lalit Modi told reporters that Akhtar cannot take part in the high-profile Twenty20 competition till the Pakistan Cricket Board lifts the ban on him.
Meanwhile, Shoaib Akhtar ifnds some support from Shah Rukh Khan:
“We believe Shoaib should play. It is a sad incident [...]
IPL Kolkata Knight Riders team skipper Sourav Ganguly is to skip the Olympics torch relay on April 17. Sourav Gnguly, who said Bhutia’s decision was his personal choice, said he had to attend the IPL inaugural clash with Bangalore Royal Challengers on April 18, which is why he can’t attend the run.
Indian football skipper Baichung [...]
Even as the cash-flooded Indian Premier League is about to start on April 18, 2008, the international cricket schedule faces big threat. With players from different parts of the world expected to participate in the two month cricket extravaganza, there are concerns that Australia’s West Indies tour, Bangladesh team’s Pakistan visit, New Zealand tour of [...]
Rajasthan Royals captain and coach Shane Warne has strongly defended DLF IPL Twenty in the backdrop of accusations that many cricketers are shunning their country commitments to exploit the lucrative IPL.
Shane Warne said in his weekly column in a newspaper that the IPL, on the contrary, gives the game a big boost.
Shane Warne had quit [...]
Former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar may have to quit as the ICC’s cricket committee chairperson due to perceived conflict of interests with his role as a columnist, media reports said.
A report said the ICC has decided on this after its executive board meeting in Dubai.
Sunil Gavaskar had described cricket playing nations Australia and England
as “dinosaurs, [...]
Former BCCI President Jagmohan Dalmia is in deep trouble after the Economic Offences Wing of Mumbai Police reportedly found documents that could implicate him for allegedly misappropriating Rs 2.90 crore from a BCCI account opened in connection with the Cricket World Cup in 1996.
Jagmohan Dalmia has denied any involvement in the scam.
The account was [...]
The ICC plans to sign a contract with BCCI to ensure that international cricket schedules are not jeopardized by IPL.
According to the contract, IPL must respect international schedules and not take on players that do not have board clearance to take part in IPL.
This would include players who have been retired for up to two [...]
The 2011 Cricket World Cup would have two teams less than the previous one, reports said.
The last Cricket World Cup in West Indies had 16 nations, inviting criticism that it prolonged the tournament and that including more teams would affect the standards of the game.
The ICC has not drawn up the schedule of the 2011 [...]
The IPL will not be factored in the ICC Futures Tour programme, a decision that would mean that IPL editions would clash with various international cricket tours.
Many players have been demanding ICC to include IPL in its tours programme so that players’ national commitments do not clash with IPL editions. More than 90 international players [...]
The Board of Control for Cricket in India has decided to continue with Robin Singh as fielding coach and Venkatesh Prasad as bowling coach for the South Africa Test series.
After Gary Kirsten took over as coach of Indian team, speculation mounted that both will be axed. The series starts on March 26.
Assistant coach Lalchand Rajput [...]