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New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) The 2015 Indian Premier League (IPL) contributed Rs.11.5 billion ($182 million) to India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said on Friday. The BCCI appointed KPMG Sports Advisory Group to undertake a survey on the economic impact generated by the IPL on the […]

Panaji, Oct 29 (IANS) One of the key reasons why Indian cricket still has a chronic dearth of all-rounders is that parents want their children to emulate Sachin Tendulkar or Ravichandran Ashwin, but not Kapil Dev, says former international Chetan Sharma. Speaking to IANS on Wednesday on the sidelines of a school cricket league event […]

Sydney, Oct 28 (IANS) Experienced batsmen Aaron Finch and Cameron White were on Wednesday called into the Cricket Australia XI squad ahead of the tour match against New Zealand, starting on Thursday at Blacktown International Sportspark here. Finch and White will replace Queensland’s Sam Heazlett and Western Australia’s Jake Carder in the squad, according to […]

Mumbai, Oct 28 (IANS) Batting legend Sachin Tendulkar said on Wednesday that he had shed four kilograms thanks to a strict diet which included only boiled food during his preparations ahead of the 2011 World Cup. The 42-year-old added that during India’s tour of South Africa in 2011 just ahead of the World Cup, he […]

Wankhede pitch curator Sudhir Naik accused Ravi Shastri of using slang.  Wankhede pitch curator Sudhir Naik has accused Ravi Shastri of using derogatory words against him after India’s 214 run loss in the ODI series decider between India and South Africa in Mumbai. South Africa batting first murdered Indian bowlers as they piled up massive […]

Mumbai, Oct 26 (IANS) Commenting on the controversy over Indian cricket team director Ravi Shastri abusing Wankhede Stadium curator Sudhir Naik for the nature of the pitch during the fifth one-dayer against South Africa, BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur said on Monday that the board needs to first look into the details of the incident before […]

Lahore, Oct 25 (IANS) Pakistan may pull out of next year’s Twenty20 World Cup, if hosts India fail to honour the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) committing them to play six series between 2015 and 2023. Talks between the two cricket boards failed to bear fruit on October 19 after Shiv Sena activists barged into the […]

Stats: list of top 10 Indian batsmen with most ODI hundreds  Indian batting sensation Virat Kohli surpassed Sourav Ganguly’s record of 22 One Day International centuries after scoring a match-winning 138 against South Africa at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai in the fourth ODI of the five-match ‘Freedom Series’. He scored a hundred after a gap of […]

Sydney, Oct 25 (IANS) The New South Wales (NSW) Blues have won their first domestic one-day title in 10 years, capping off a series of dominant performances throughout the tournament with a crushing nine-wicket victory over the West End Redbacks in the Matador Cup final at the North Sydney Oval here on Sunday. The giant-killing […]