Kolkata, Dec 3 (IANS) Former India captain and current Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) president Sourav Ganguly chose to stay away from the Matthew Hayden-Ravi Shastri controversy surrounding pitches in India but said that all teams enjoy home conditions. Hayden on Tuesday hit back at India team director Ravi Shastri’s swipe at Australian critics of […]
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In Pictures: BCCI honours Sehwag before the final Test start
BCCI (The Board of Control For Cricket In India) felicitate Virender Sehwag before the start of the fourth and final Test between India and South Africa at Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi. Virender Sehwag was one of the most furious and entertaining batsman in the world. He was India’s one of the most important batsmen. […]
Richardson seeks to motivate inexperienced Windies
Brisbane, Dec 2 (IANS) Team manager Richie Richardson says the West Indies, dominated by a crop of young players, must maintain a strong and positive outlook as they confront mighty Australia in a three match Test series starting next week. The largely inexperienced and lowly ranked West Indies test team, led by 23-year-old captain Jason […]
Virat Kohli's aggression stays both on and off the field
The aggressive form of Indian Test captain continues, this time off the field. The skipper blasted the media and the governing councils for terming the Nagpur pitch as “poor” and taking the victory’s credit away from the team’s performance and giving it instead to the spin-friendly pitch. The home team crushed the South African side […]
Proved: Kane Willimson and AB de Villiers are having a damn fine year
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced the Test and ODI teams of the year. Anil Kumble headed panel consider players performance between September 18th, 2014 and September 13th, 2015. This year cricket has seen the mega cricketing event World Cup. Among the many stellar performances, these two batsmen have been the most prolific and […]
Manohar's stand will make game stronger: FICA
The Federation of International Cricketers Associations (FICA) is in complete support of current BCCI President Shashank Manohar’s plan to disband the infamous Big Three Administration. Manohar recently spoke about the highly controversial issue regarding the overall functioning of the game and said that he was not in favor of having the Big Three model. Manohar […]
DDCA shows no intent of facilitating its greatest ever player Virender Sehwag
The Delhi District Cricket Association (DDCA) is yet to name a stand after the greatest player of state emerged in the history. Now, it appeared they may even end up not felicitating him at all. DDCA officials said, “no communication from BCCI”. However, it was learnt that BCCI would felicitate Virender Sehwag in Delhi when India […]
ICC admits Nigel Long has taken wrong decision in the Day-Night Test
International Cricket Council (ICC) reviewed the decision of Nigel Long in the first ever day-night Test at Adelaide Oval as New Zealand Cricket seeks clarification over the use Decision Review System (DRS) at the Adelaide Oval day. ICC said the third umpire of the historic day-night Test Nigel Long has taken a wrong decision but […]
CA wants more day-night Test
Cricket Australia (CA) are keen to arrange more day-night Test match in the near future. CA is showing interest to arrange more day-night Test match, after the huge success of the inaugural day-night Test match between Australia and New Zealand in Adelaide at last week. It was also the debut of “Pink Ball” in international […]
WICB throws its weight behind embattled Narine
St. John’s (Antigua), Dec 1 (IANS) The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has given Sunil Narine its full backing after the beleaguered off-spinner was banned from bowling in international cricket because of an illegal action. Director of Cricket Richard Pybus said on Monday the board would fully support Narine during his rehabilitation and backed the […]