The speculation regarding the new chairman of the BCCI selection committee has finally come to an end. Former India skipper and opening batsmen Krishnamachari Srikkanth has taken over Dilip Vengsarkar to become the Chief Selector i.e. the head of Cricket Selection Committee. The formal announcement ...

After a lot of deliberations, it was finally agreed that Australian cricket team will tour India in October 2008 and play the four test matches. Cricket Australia was feeling apprehensive about sending its players to India for bilateral test-match series following the string of bomb blasts that ...

Kapil Dev, the chairman of ICL has announced that ICL will start its second session from October 10. The number of teams and the venue of the tournament have yet to be decided. However, the major issue with the ICL is that it has yet to find backing among the national cricket boards in cricketing ...

ICL expanding its influence has included its ninth team Dhaka Warriors in its forthcoming cricket season. Habibul Bashar is the captain of Dhaka Warriors. Other than him, six more players from Bangladesh national side have been included in the team. They are: Aftab Ahmed, Alok Kapali, Shahriar ...

Cricket Australia (CA) has confirmed that the tour of Australia team will be as per the schedule. Admittedly, fate of the bilateral Test match series was hanging owing to recent explosions in Delhi. Australian cricket authorities were worried about the safety and security of their players in India ...

Frans Cronje (brother of Hansie Cronje) directed film Hansie-a labor of love will be released soon in South Africa. The film is based on the life and fall of successful captain of South African cricket team. His worst phase of life came when he was caught in to the controversy of match fixing, and ...

Kushal Das has quit as vice president and chief financial officer of IMG India and joined the International Cricket Council (ICC) as its global CFO. He will take on his new post from September 15. He confirmed the news saying, 'Yes I will join ICC from the 15th of this month. As global CFO, I will ...

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, at a gala function held on September 10, was hailed as the International Cricket Council (ICC) 2008 one-day international player of the year. The ICC programme also saw compatriot Yuvraj Singh being presented award for inaugural winner of the Twenty20 international performance ...

To mark the inauguration of the first international stadium, Chattisgarh has invited star cricketers Sachin Tendulkar and Mahendra Singh Dhoni to participate in a match to be played on the same ground in the second week of September, 2008. The Chattisgarh government has also planned to host a ...

Colin Egar, a well-known former chairman of the Australian Cricket Board and international umpire, has passed away. He was 80 years old. A statement issued by the Cricket Australia in this regard, informs that Egar had been unwell for quite sometime. It also informs that he died in Adelaide and ...

Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) has appointed Utpal Chatterjee as the new cricket coach of Bengal team for the forth coming domestic season. The former bowler from Bengal would take the charge of this office from Friday, September 05, 2008, informed Jagmohan Dalmiya, President of ...

Australian pacer Brett Lee is all set to play Cricket Tests series to be played in India in the month of October. Talking about his prospect of playing for Australia in next tour he excitedly said that he is looking forward for the four-test Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Mentionably, the 31 year old has ...

Greg Chappell has been appointed as the head coach of the Cricket Australia Centre of Excellence (COE) in Brisbane. Greg who has coached Indian cricket team is considered one of the greatest batsmen Australia produced. Also, his acumen in strategizing cricket match is well-known. Commenting on the ...

BCCI has mooted down a lower and uniform tax structure for independent sports federations. Sharad Pawar, President (BCCI), who also heads Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA), informed around 330 clubs of the MCA that he has taken up the matter of lowering down taxes and unifying them at the same ...

Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has retained his top position toppling SA captain Graeme Smith in the latest ICC player rankings. His good batting in Sri Lanka where he scored 193 runs, and won Man of the Series helped him to reach on the top of the list of batsmen. Another Indian batsman in ...

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, India skipper, preceded his South African counterpart Greame Smith to once again clinch the top notch position in the newest ICC ODI batsmen ranking. Dhoni holds 803 rating points in his kitty due to an unwavering performance and this even includes the 76 and 71 in the ...

Indian Cricket League (ICL) and Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation have entered into an agreement to hold ICL 20-20 cricket matches at the Sardar Patel Stadium. The stadium located in heart of the city will witness a few ICL camps too. Kiran More, Executive Board Member of ICL said that though stadium ...

India won their first bi-lateral ODI series in Sri Lanka when they defeated Sri Lanka by 46 runs in the fourth match of the series. Electing to bat first after winning the toss, India made 258 runs in 49.4 overs. The leading scorers for India were Suresh Raina (76, 78b) and Dhoni (71, 80b). The ...

To pay a great tribute to legendary batsman Don Bradman, Australia will celebrate its hero's centenary birth anniversary with all grandeur and glitz. The celebration due on August 27 will comprise of numerous functions across major cities in the country. Bradman born on August 27, 1908, played ...

India, which is going to co-host the cricket World Cup 2011 in alliance with Pakistan and Sri Lanka, is planning to build the world's largest stadium close to Chennai. It is at the Karunkuzhipallam village in Kanchipuram district, 25 km from Chennai where the proposed cricket stadium is likely to ...

The Delhi Court has permitted the state controlled broadcaster Doordarshan (DD) to book advertisements for the two one day cricket matches between Sri Lanka and India. The revenue earned from these advertisements will thereafter be shared by DD in the 75:25 proportion with the official broadcaster ...

ICC in its latest decision citing security issue in Pakistan has postponed Champions Trophy to October 2009. The championship was scheduled from September 12-28 in Pakistan, and teams of England, New Zealand, and Australia have shown their concern on security. However, giving consolatory words to ...

Making selectors more accountable towards their job Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has decided to increase pay scale. Now, under new decision of BCCI national selectors will be put on its payroll. The decision has been taken to increase the salary of the senior selectors, now they ...

South Africa became the first team to officially withdraw from the next month's ICC Champions Trophy in Pakistan. According to Cricket South Africa President Norman Arendse, the decision to not send their national team to Pakistan was taken due to uncertain security conditions in the strife-torn ...

According to an ICC spokesman, Darrell Hair the Australian Umpire has resigned from the International Cricket Council (ICC) elite umpires panel to take on a teaching role in Australia. The 55-year-old Hair hit the headlines when he was removed from the umpire's panel for matches involving full ...

The inaugural Champions League Twenty20 tournament will now be held in early December. The tournament was earlier scheduled in September-October.
 
A joint statement by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Cricket Australia (CA) and Cricket South Africa (CSA) announced that the ...

One-day Indian cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been named for Rajiv Khel Ratna Award for the year 2007. His name has been send for the confirmation by the sports ministry. The awards would be presented by President Pratibha Patil at a function in Rashtrapati Bhawan on August 29, the ...

For the perpetually cricket starved sports enthusiasts, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is going to launch its own website next month. Mr Lalit Modi, the vice-president of the BCCI, has informed that a Canada-based company named cricket.com has bought away decade-long portal rights ...

Sports lovers should definitely not miss this one! During the forthcoming Champions Twenty20 League, the former Australian cricketer Shane Warne will lead a young team of Indian cricketers against the team from his home side, Victoria.
 
During the 10-day Champions Twenty20 League that will ...

Ashok Mankad, a former cricket player of India, died in his sleep on Friday, August 1, 2008, announced the Indian cricket board. He was 61 years old. A right-handed batsman, Ashok Mankad played in 22 tests between 1969 and 1978.
 
He was the eldest son of the Vinoo Mankad, who represented ...