Hindustan Media Ventures, the HT Media subsidiary that runs Hindustan — one of India’s largest newspapers — said it has decided to bid for an IPL team in the ongoing auctions. With this, Hindustan Media Ventures joins a longish list of companies interested in owning the two new franchises. Companies who win the auction will […]
The Central Bureau of Investigation has closed its investigation into complaints of financial irregularities at the Delhi & District Cricket Association, the Lok Sabha was informed today. “A preliminary enquiry was registered in SC-II branch (of the CBI) on 23.10.2015 against unknown office bearers of Delhi & District Cricket Association (DDCA) and unknown others, on […]
The Supreme Court today sent notices to relevant parties on cricketer Sreeshant’s plea to lift a lifetime ban on him imposed by the Mumbai-based Board of Control for Cricket in India. This is the third hearing on the matter. In August last year, a single judge bench of the Kerala High Court lifted the ban […]
India won the toss and chose to bat first in the third Paytm test match at Holkar Stadium, Indore. The pitch will favour the bowlers and batting would be difficult, was Sunil Gavaskar’s opinion. “It will be a batman friendly wicket”, said Virat Kohli after winning the toss for the third time in the series. […]
New Zealand will be playing for pride in the third Paytm test match tomorrow at Holkar Stadium in Indore after India secured an unassailable 2-0 series win against them at Eden Gardens. Skikhar Dhawan’s injury to his thumb, coming in the midst of a poor run of form, gives the comeback man Gautam Gambhir a slot […]
The Supreme Court today asked the Board of Cricket Control in India not to disburse any money to state associations and directed state associations not to utilize any funds obtained from BCCI after its last order. If any of the state units utilize the recently disbursed funds, they will also face action, the court warned. […]
Following the terror attack in the army camp in Uri which killed 18 Indian army personnels, the BCCI has made it clear that India will not play cricket with Pakistan in the near future. BCCI president Anurag Thakur said, “There will be no question of playing cricket with Pakistan.” The two countries last played in the ICC […]
Dwayne Bravo held his nerve to concede just 6 runs of the last over to take West Indies to a 1 run win against India in the first Paytm T20 International at Central Broward Regional Park, Florida. Chasing a target of 246 , India required 8 runs of the last over and 2 run of […]
Charles and Lewis were at their aggresive best as West Indies are 78/0 at the end of powerplay in the first Paytm T20 international. Charles brought up his 50 in just 20 balls with a six of Ashwin. Charles hammered Sami for 17 runs in the first over which included a six over long on, […]
India won the toss and decided to bowl first in their first Paytm T20 International match in the US against the West Indies. Lewis replaces the big hitting Chris Gayle in the Windies squad. Shikhar Dhawan makes way for KL Rahul as Stuart Binny finds the place in the side as all rounder. Good batting […]
India will take on the West Indies on Saturday in the first of the two T20 international to be played in Central Broward Regional Park, Florida. The last time the two teams fought each other, India went down to the Windies in the semi-finals of the world T20 held in India in March. The Caribbean […]
The Indian team has landed in Florida ahead of their historic match against current T20 Champions West Indies, marking the first time competitive International Cricket will be played on American soil. West Indies will play two T20 international matches on August 27 and 28 with Indian team at the Central Broward Regional Park, Florida. The […]
Ravindra Jadeja will likely find his place in the playing eleven for team India against the West Indies in the Third test match to be played at Gros Islet in a few hours from now. Team rumours say that Amith Mishra may give way to the southpaw after exhibiting a very ordinary performance in the […]
Viv Richards, the West Indian great of the ‘70s and the ‘80s has been resoundingly crowned as the greatest ever one-day cricketer by his fellow players, commentators and journalists in a poll published in the March issue of The Cricket Monthly. With 29 of 50 jurors picking him as the best ODI player of all […]
India’s most iconic cricketer of recent times, Sachin Tendulkar, has crossed the 5 mln mark in terms of twitter followers. Sachin, who uses the handle @sachin_rt, will need another 3.6 lakh followers to equal the top Indian cricketer on Twitter, Virat Kohli. Third in line is MS Dhoni, who has 3.47 mln followers, while Virender Sehwag […]
Virat Kohli, captain of the Royal Challengers Bangalore and the most popular IPL player on Twitter with more than 3.15 million followers, secured his position at the top for a second week running in the most talked about IPL players,according to a compilation released by a public relations agency. Yuvraj Singh came rushing back into […]
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), announced a new sponsorship deal along with Jet Airways naming both airlines as principal sponsors and official airlines of the Mumbai Indians cricket team. This is the Abu Dhabi-based airline’s first high profile sports sponsorship in the region. Crowned as champions of the 2013 […]
