India take on a resurgent South Africa in Chennai on Wednesday as skipper Anil Kumble seeks a first slot in Test rankings and key batsman Rahul Dravid chases the 80 rund he needs to make it to the 10,000-run club. Rahul Dravid will become the only third Indian after Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar to [...]
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 [...]
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 International Cricket Council is toying with the idea of allowing players to challenge umpires decision by referring it to TV umpires. There have been many instances when decisions have gone awfully wrong, especially during India’s recent tour of Australia. Many believe umpiring errors cost India the Sydney test a reversal of which would have [...]
This is the Delhi Daredevils team composition as it stands on 18 March 2008. Virender Sehwag (Captain) Daniel Vettori Mohammad Asif Shoaib Malik Dinesh Karthik AB de Villiers Farveez Maharoof Tillakaratne Dilshan Gautam Gambhir Manoj Tiwary Glenn McGrath Rajat Bhatia Shikhar Dhawan Mithun Manhas Mayank Tehlan Pradeep Sangwan Brett Geeves GMR Sports, owner of the [...]
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Former Indian fast bowler Ashish Nehra has been reportedly bagged by the Mumbai Indians for the DLF IPL Twenty20 tournament for more than a crore rupees. Sachin Tendulkar, Mumbai Indians’ icon player was behind the decision. Ashish Nehra was not in the list of contracted players. The lanky fast bowler had practically vanished from public [...]
Imtiaz Patel, an Indian of South African origin, has been named International Cricket Council’s new chief executive to replace Australian Malcom Speed. He will take over from the current ICC chief Malcolm Speed when he steps down in June. Patel is the chief executive of South African broadcast network Supersport. The ICC executive board meet [...]
The BCCI has conducted a seminar for the curators of the IPL tournament. Curators are the ones who prepare the pitches and make them ready for the matches. BCCI wanted to make those pitches where the IPL would be held consistent across the country. According to news reports, BCCI even had Les Burdett, Australian curator [...]
Arjuna Ranatunga, the former highly successful captain of the Sri Lanka cricket team, has said that players venturing into new cash-rich tournaments like ICL and IPL could be adversely affected by the amount of huge money they offer. Ranatunga said there was nothing wrong in making money when an opportunity comes in, but also said [...]