With Indian Premier League (IPL) about to begin, the IPL Governing Council has announced the schedule for the remaining 40 matches including 4 Play-offs games that all of these will be held in India itself. The IPL will return to India from May 2nd after completion of the 1st leg matches which will be taking place […]
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A few matches in the 2011 World Cup may have been ‘fixed’
Some matches of the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup which was played in the sub-continent may have been ‘fixed’, a shocking revelation has cracked wide open by a media report which has been based of a confidential report lodged by the Anti-corruption and the Security Unit of the International Cricket Council. A report in the UK’s […]
2014 IPL Team Preview: Chennai Super Kings
Just a year back, the close followers of Indian Premier League used to relate IPL as a tournament where seven other teams fight against each other to meet just to meet and lose to Chennai Super Kings in the Finals. But with the developments that took place in the past one year courtesy the IPL spot-fixing scandal, […]
Pietersen’s ouster is right: Cook
England skipper Alastair Cook has laid his subsidy upon the ECB for the ‘brave call’ as they abandoned the international career of Kevin Pietersen. Even though Pietersen had held the superior placement in the team, he has been cut down by the England and Wales Cricket Board in February after the shameful 5-0 down through in the […]
The steep rise and rapid fall from grace of BCCI czar N. Srinivasan
N. Srinivasan is a well traveled man. The Chennnai businessman has been the Sheriff of Madras for two terms, from 1989 to 1991 and was also a member of the Prime Minister’s Council of Trade and Industry from 1996 to 2001, before making his way into cricket administration. Let’s take a look at a timeline […]
The Birth and Growth of Indian Premier League
It was a time when the English Premier League (Football) was considered as the most prestigious domestic league that had the several big names from the football world, but now, EPL has got a rival league from the Gentlemen’s game, the Indian Premier League. It was in 2007 when Zee Network came out with an idea […]
Cairns has been called for investigation by ICC
Chris Cairns, the former New Zealand cricketer has affirmed that he has been concerned over the accusation of match-fixing by the police finally. He has managed to win a libel trial against Lalit Modi, the logroller of Indian Cricket in 2012 which called for corruption in the Indian Cricket League that has become extinct. Cairns along […]
Srinivasan is stepping down from BCCI temporarily
At last, the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), N Srinivasan has assured to step down in order to bear out legitimate investigations regarding match-fixing and betting outrage in the season six of Indian Premier League. The cricket board has confirmed this to the honorable Supreme Court. At the same […]
Sushant Singh Rajput is going to play Dhoni in his biopic
A movie is going to be shown along the eventful life of Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, and the budding sensation ‘Kai-Po-Che’ guy Sushant Singh Rajput is going to take on the role of Dhoni. Director Neeraj Pandey will make the motion picture which is still unidentified, said a media story and has able to […]
ICC clears West Indies off-spinner Shillingford’s action – doosra ban remains!
The International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed on Wednesday that following remedial work, an independent test has declared West Indies offie Shane Shillingford‘s bowling action to be legal, allowing the bowler to resume bowling in international cricket. Shillingford’s off break and arm balls were re-examined at the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth on March 4, […]