While watching the second day’s play between India and West Indies, an interesting statistic popped up on the telly. Rahul Dravid’s career graph was shown but the one that caught eye was that of the number of Tests he has played at home to those played abroad. Of the 158 in total that he had [...]
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has said that it will support the recommendations made by the ICC cricket committee regarding the Decision Review System (DRS). This stance is the exact opposite to the Indian Cricket Board’s (BCCI) stance. The PCB however said that it opposes the proposal to end the rotation policy for ICC Presidency and also [...]
Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) vice president, Niranjan Shah said that the Decision Review System (DRS) is unreliable and that the technology is very expensive. He said that the technology offers marginal gains and that is not error free. The comments come a day before the ICC’s annual board conference in Honk [...]
International Cricket Council (ICC) chief Haroon Lorgat has named the Decision Review System (DRS), and the format for the 2015 World Cup as the top of the agenda during the ICC’s annual board meet in Hong Kong this month. The conference begins on Sunday (24th June) and goes on for five days. The ICC International Cricket Committee [...]
The Border-Gavaskar scholarship program has been cancelled. The program was designed to help young budding cricketers in India, by giving them a chance to visit Australia’s Centre of Excellence (COE) in Brisbane and train under coaches. The scholarship program has been cancelled because the sponsors, the Australia-India council (AIC) has pulled out of the programme. [...]
Former Cricket South Africa President, Norman Arendse has said that the ICC was not arm twisted by the BCCI to ban the Indian Cricket League (ICL). Norman Arendse was a board member of the ICC during the time when ICL was termed as a ‘rebel league’. He said that the BCCI did not force exert [...]
BCCI officials and the Sri Lankan board officials have planned a meeting tomorrow to discuss and hopefully resolve the issue with the Sri Lankan Premier League (SLPL). Sri Lanka’s sports minister, Mahindanda Aluthgamage has arranged for chairman, DS de Silva, and secretary Nishantha Ranatunga to travel to India and discuss with the board. BCCI had banned [...]
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is likely to protest against the exclusion of Pakistani teams from the Champions League T20 (CLT20). The schedule and format was announced yesterday with a new qualifying round. No team from Pakistan was invited for the tournament. PCB is said to raise the issue in this month’s annual board meet that is to take place in Hong [...]
Lalit Modi has lashed out at the BCCI in a series of tweets after the BCCI claimed a link between the former Indian Premier League’s (IPL) commissioner and chairman with the SLPL. Modi called the BCCI spineless and said that his very name name invoked fear within the board. Modi also said that he will reveal [...]
The Sri Lankan Cricket board (SLC) has come out and refuted BCCI’s claims that the Sri Lankan Premier League (SLPL) is a privately owned league. The SLC also that Somerset just manages the event, while the ownership and approval of the league rests with the SLC. The Indian cricket board had barred Indian players from [...]
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