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New Delhi: One of India’s largest business conglomerates, the Tata Group, will replace Chinese mobile manufacturer Vivo as the Indian Premier League’s title sponsor from this year, the event’s governing council decided in a meeting on Tuesday. “Yes, Tata group is coming in as IPL title sponsor,” IPL chairman Brijesh Patel confirmed the development. The […]
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Mumbai: The BCCI on Monday postponed the knockout games of U-19 Cooch Behar Trophy following a massive Covid-19 outbreak among the participating teams. Around 50 positive cases across eight teams were detected ahead of the knockout stage beginning in Pune on Tuesday. “The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday announced the […]
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The Mithali Raj led side will play their first World Cup fixture against Pakistan on March 6 at the Bay Oval, Tauranga.
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Johannesburg: India’s Test captain Virat Kohli, who missed the second Test in Johannesburg due to an upper back spasm, took some time out to train with the team ahead of the third day’s play on Wednesday. In a positive sign for the Indian cricket team, Kohli was seen receiving throwdowns from head coach Rahul Dravid […]
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Mumbai: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday announced the postponement of the Ranji Trophy and other domestic tournaments for the 2021-22 season due to the rising Covid-19 cases in the country. Apart from Ranji Trophy, Col CK Nayudu Trophy and Senior Women’s T20 League were also postponed. The Ranji Trophy […]
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Hyderabad: The Telangana Cricket Association (TCA) alleged malpractices and corruption in the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) team selections for the BCCI tournaments. The TCA secretary Dharam Guruva Reddy said that despite the Supreme Court disqualifying the Apex Council, the HCA continued to work and select teams for the BCCI tournaments. “It is not known whether […]
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Johannesburg: India Test skipper Virat Kohli has been phenomenal despite “all the noise around him” and will soon be scoring big runs, head coach Rahul Dravid said on Sunday, backing the superstar batter who has been locked in a war of words with the BCCI over the way his white-ball captaincy tenure ended. What has […]
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New Delhi: Days after retiring from all forms of cricket, former India spinner Harbhajan Singh has dropped a bombshell by claiming that some Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) officials and former skipper MS Dhoni were responsible for his ouster from the national team. For a long period of time, Harbhajan reigned supreme […]
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Kolkata: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly was on Friday discharged from hospital here after testing negative for the new variant of Covid-19, Omicron. According to doctors, the former India captain had mild symptoms of Covid-19 and is doing fine and would stay in home isolation. The 49-year-old Ganguly, […]
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Kolkata: BCCI president and former India skipper Sourav Ganguly continues to remain “stable”, the hospital where he is undergoing treatment said on Wednesday. Ganguly was rushed to a city hospital on Monday night as a precautionary measure after his RT-PCR test returned positive for Covid-19. “On the second day of admission, Sourav Gangly, BCCI President […]
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Centurion: India opener KL Rahul said that one goes through a variety of emotions on the way of scoring a century in Test cricket. He also expressed his happiness over staying unbeaten on day one, something which is expected of his role as the opener. On day one of the Boxing Day Test at SuperSport […]
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New Delhi: The BCCI is planning to hold the two-day mega Indian Premier League auction on February 7 and 8 in Bengaluru, a senior BCCI official said on Wednesday. It could well be the last mega auction that BCCI might conduct as most of the original IPL franchises want it to be discontinued. “Unless the […]
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New Delhi: Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly on Saturday spoke honestly regarding what he felt about Virat Kohli’s attitude, saying he likes the Indian Test skipper’s “attitude but he fights a lot”.There have been talks on the T20I captaincy issues wherein Kohli had stated that he wasn’t told by […]
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New Delhi: BCCI’s chief medical officer Abhijit Salvi has resigned due to personal reasons. Salvi told PTI on Saturday that his notice period ended on November 30 but he carried on till the end of the second Test between India and New Zealand on December 7.His role had gained significance in COVID times with regular […]
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New Delhi: KL Rahul will don the vice-captaincy hat for the upcoming three-match Test series against South Africa. Rohit Sharma would have been the vice-captain, but a hamstring injury ruled him out of the series and hence Rahul would act as deputy to Virat Kohli. Sources in the know of developments confirmed to ANI that […]
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New Delhi: The former Indian skipper Sunil Gavaskar said that the Sourav Ganguly is the best person to clear the air on Virat Kohli’s contradictory statement on the issue of captaincy, saying the BCCI president “surely should be asked” how the difference in perception arose. Days after Kohli quit T20I captaincy, Ganguly said that the […]
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Mumbai: India Test skipper Virat Kohli on Wednesday said the BCCI never asked him to reconsider quitting T20 leadership as claimed by the Board and his removal from ODI captaincy happened 90 minutes before the team’s selection for the upcoming South Africa tour. At the pre-departure press meet before the South Africa tour, the Indian […]
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New Delhi: India’s Test vice-captain Rohit Sharma was on Monday ruled out of the entire three-Test series against South Africa as his old left-hamstring injury resurfaced during the team’s net session in Mumbai where he also took a hit on his hand. India A captain Priyank Panchal will be Rohit’s replacement opener in the Test […]
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Mumbai: Opening batter Rohit Sharma was on Wednesday named India’s new ODI skipper and the star player will take over from Virat Kohli starting the South Africa series in January next year. Rohit was also named as India’s Test vice-captain as as the All-India Senior Selection Committee picked an 18-member squad for the upcoming three-match […]
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Mumbai: India captain Virat Kohli on Thursday said he expects to get more clarity from the BCCI on the upcoming tour of South Africa in the next couple of days and does not want to be left “confused” following the emergence of the new COVID-19 variant ‘Omicron’. It is understood that head coach Rahul Dravid […]