A top BCCI official on Thursday (November 27), a day after the brutal terror attack in Mumbai, informed that the remainder of England team's cricket tour of India involving two ODIs and two Test matches is being called off in the wake of Mumbai terror attacks. 

BCCI Secretary N Srinivasan ...

Here is a good news for all the cricket lovers. The London Assembly has voted for Twenty20 cricket in 2012 Olympic Games. The members of the London Assembly strongly supported the inclusion of Twenty20 cricket as a showcase sport in the 2012 Olympic Games. The members urged the London Organising ...

The Chief Executive Officer of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Haroon Lorgat has assured the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) that he will internally discuss the demand of the BCCI to remove Clive Lloyd from the chairmanship of its Cricket Committee, with world governing body's ...

The captain of Indian cricket team Mahendra Singh Dhoni reportedly threatened to quit captaincy in protest against non-inclusion of RP Singh in the Indian one-day squad for the next 2 one-dayers of the Hero Honda cup. According to reports, the decision of dropping RP Singh was taken ...

The Board of Control for Cricket in India filed a petition in the Supreme Court on Friday (November 21), challenging Calcutta High Court's directive to initiate criminal proceedings against its six top officials for filing false affidavits in the Jagmohan Dalmiya expulsion case.
Justice Nadira ...

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has appointed legendary leg-spinner Abdul Qadir as the new chief selector. According to a statement from the chairman of PCB, Ijaz Butt, the new chief selector will immediately form a strong and balanced Pakistan squad for the upcoming home series against India in ...

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has asked the International Cricket Council (ICC) to remove Clive Lloyd, the West Indian legend, from his post as chairman of the ICC's Cricket Committee following his remarks that “Indian Premier League and the Indian Cricket League could ...

It is three in a row now! India beat England by 16 runs (D/L method) in the third One Day International match being played at Green Park, Kanpur. India, now leads the seven-match series by 3-0.
Chasing an inadequate total of 240, India made a shaky start with Gautam Gambhir (14) and Suresh ...

The recently retired India's dynamic one-day opener, Sourav Ganguly seems to be destined to remain connected with the national board as he has been nominated as a member of the BCCI's Technical Committee. The former India captain had retired from all sorts of cricket barely a week ago. The ...

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has appointed former Pakistan captain Javed Miandad as the Director General of the board. A statement issued by PCB claimed that Miandad will join his office very soon by replacing former Pakistan Test pacer Saleem Altaf, who was re-designated as PCB's chief operating ...

The Board of Control for Cricket in India said that India’s tour of Pakistan can not be viewed as confirmed until it is cleared by the government of India. The tour is scheduled to take place early next year. The Board cited security concerns as the only reason behind the delay. The tour was ...

The ESPN Star Sports (ESS) that was awarded the contract for the long-term global television production partner for the Champions League T20, starting next month will telecast all the matches in High Definition Format with Highest ever Camera Set-up. This is a “never-before” stunt ...

India's consecutive victories against England has helped it to move up two places from fifth to third spot on the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship table, released on Tuesday (November 18). On the other hand, England has slipped from third to sixth position. However, if India can continue ...

Sourav Ganguly may have put in papers from the international cricket but he has agreed to play for Bengal in the coming Ranji Trophy matches. The Cricket Association of Bengal on Monday (November 17) announced that the Prince of Kolkata would soon be found hanging around the wickets. The recently ...

With every new game, Yuvraj is showing the world what exactly he can do when at his best. Yuvraj today not only steered the India’s batting line-up but also captured four crucial wickets to guide India to a 54-run victory in the second ODI against England, being played at Indore.
England had ...

India won the first one-day international by defeating England by a huge margin of 158 run at Rajkot. Earlier winning the toss England's captain Kevin Pietersen sent India to bat first. The Indian team set a mammoth total of 387 runs with the help Yuvraj Singh's unbeaten 138 runs and Virender ...

India clinched the prestigious Border-Gavaskar trophy by defeating the world champions by 172 runs in the final Test in Nagpur. Chasing a massive victory target of 382, the Australians were wrapped up at 209 runs. The Aussies started the fifth day with 13 for no loss and reached the total of 111-2 ...

The 38 year old Anil Kumble said goodbye to Test Cricket after playing at his favorite hunting ground Feroz Shah Kotla stadium in New Delhi against Australia. Soon after his declaration of retirement, MS Dhoni was appointed as the captain of India. The legendary leg-spinner has 619 wickets in ...

Match referee Chris Broad has banned Indian opener Gautam Gambhir for one test match for breaking ICC code of conduct. The Indian batsman has been alleged of elbowing Australian bowler Shane Watson during the first day of the third test between India and Australia. According to the match referee, ...

India Blue won the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy by defeating India Red by eight wickets at Cuttack on October 26, 2008. Chasing a victory target of 152 runs, the solid partnership of 93 runs between Ajinkya Rahane and Robin Uthappa helped India Blue to reach the total in just 25.4 ...

The Pakistan Cricket Board has fired its existing cricket coach Geoff Lawson for his failure to improve the performance of the Pakistan cricket team. The decision of removal of Lawson was made by the chairman of the board, Ijaz Butt. Although Lawson will not be able to offer his service to the ...

India's middle order batsman VVS Laxman has been singed by English county side Lancashire play for the side in 2009. The test star will join the county side after playing the up-coming Indian Premier League tournament. VVS Laxman had played for Lancashire in 2007. After tying up with the county ...

The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has decided to honor Indian test captain Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid and former South African skipper Shaun Pollock with its life membership. Very soon, MCC Head of Cricket, John Stephenson will present the official club ties to the three great cricket players. ...

India has won the second test match at Mohali by crushing Australia by a huge margin of 320 runs on October 21, 2008. With this India has registered its biggest test match victory in terms of runs. The previous best was against South Africa in Kanpur in 1996. In that match, India had defeated the ...

India's most sensational batsman, Sachin Tendulkar has added one more record to his name. Sachin Tendulkar has become the leading run scorer in test cricket. He broke Brain Lara's record of 11,953 runs while batting against Australia in the second test match at Mohali. Tendulkar has achieved the ...

The International Cricket Council has appointed Sharad Pawar as the head of its Finance and Commercial Affairs Committee.  This decision was taken by ICC President David Morgan on October 5, 2008.  Besides Pawar, other members of the committee include Giles Clarke, Haroon Lorgat, and Neil ...

The former Australian wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist became the new captain of the IPL team Deccan Chargers on September 29, 2008. He replaces the stylish batsman of Hyderabad, VVS Laxman for the next IPL tournament. Gilchrist has been given the responsibility of Deccan Chargers keeping in mind the ...

The Cricket association of Bengal (CAB) has managed to rope in spin wizard M Muralitharan to play for it in Ranji Trophy session 08-09. Interestingly, CAB was thinking of admitting either Sanath Jayasuriya or Australia's Ricky Ponting or Murali and, finally, latter was selected to represent Bengal ...

Nagpur based lawyer Shashank Manohar, replacing Sharad Pawar is the new president of BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India). The decision taken at 79th AGM of BCCI was not surprising as Shashank Manohar was one of the five vice-presidents who were working under President Sharad Pawar. Also, ...

Even the splendid score of 91 runs made by Gautam Ghambir could not help the Ranji Champion Delhi win the Irani Trophy match. The Delhi team was defeated by 187 runs on the fourth day by Rest of India. The four-day match concluded on September 27 at Vadodara.  Chasing a total of 378 to win, ...