While T20 World Cup is scheduled for an October 18 start, India's tour of Australia will begin with a T20 tri-series in October and end with a four-match Test series in December. Cricket Australia is staring at a staggering loss of 300 million Australian dollars if things don't go ahead as planned.
Cricket Australia will not reconsider reducing the ban on Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft in the ball-tampering case despite a series against a full-strength India awaiting them next month.
Rabada, the number one ranked Test bowler, could still play if he succeeds in his appeal against an International Cricket Council (ICC) decision to award him three demerit points for his reaction to dismissing Steve Smith in the second Test.
BCCI treasurer Arun Dhumal on Monday said that their Cricket Operations and National Cricket Academy (NCA) teams are working on organising a training camp for the top Indian cricketers but didn't commit to any time frame amid the prevailing circumstances.
On behalf of the Apex Council members of MCA, all the member clubs as also the cricketing fraternity we condole his demise," secretary Sanjay Naik and joint secretary.
The intense exchange between Kohli and Gambhir caused a stir on national television.
Former speed merchant Brett Lee reckons Australia's pace trio would hold the key during the year-end home Test series against India and is keen to figure out how much the kookaburra ball swings without saliva Down Under.
Disgruntled Australian batsman Simon Katich managed to avoid a suspension and was, on Monday, let off with a reprimand by his Cricket Board after pleading guilty to the charge of making detrimental public comments in a disciplinary hearing in Melbourne.
Waqar's chances of being named bowling coach appeared strong after another former Test bowler Muhammad Akram withdrew his application
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Pakistan's hunt for a new coach continues to face hurdles as Australian Stuart Law turned down the position, expressing his inability to join the team immediately.
Australian Geoff Lawson has sparked speculation over his future as Pakistan coach by leaving the country suddenly a month before it hosts the ICC Champions Trophy.
'One glance at the Indians on the field compared to these visiting South Africans, and you know something is very wrong or very different. One side (not our side) looks like athletes do,' says Aakar Patel.
Sri Lanka Cricket officials are to raise with the International Cricket Council Australian Adam Gilchrist's use of a squash ball in his left glove in the World Cup final.
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No decision yet on the fate of the Sydney Test, which starts December 26, but for us the tour is still on, says the Board of Control for Cricket in India secretary, Sanjay Patel.
The Indian cricket team held a meeting at a hotel in Sydney on Monday morning to express solidarity with Harbhajan Singh, who has been slapped with a three-Test suspension for an alleged racial abuse against Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds.
Darrell Hair will sue the ICC and the PCB for showing "racial discrimination" in banning him from international matches.
Cricket scoreboards around the world carried tributes to Australian batsman Phillip Hughes on Friday, while condolence messages flooded social media as the sporting world reacted to an untimely death not experienced since Ayrton Senna's in 1994.
Adelaide, which was due to host the second Test from December 12-16, will now host the series opener from December 9-13, in what is sure to be a highly emotional occasion.
The Pakistan Cricket Board on Saturday threatened to take legal action against Australian newspapers for carrying "unsubstantiated" reports.
Australia blanked England while South Africa and Bangladesh showed their bowling prowess with mighty wins over Zimbabwe and USA respectively. In the 16th-place play-off, Afghanistan fought off a spirited USA side to win a low-scoring thriller.
The BCCI might have opposed the idea but Australian captain Ricky Ponting wants the ICC to ensure implementation of the Decision Review System (DRS) in every Test match.
The Aussie umpire was to officiate at Chesterfield in a second eleven match between Derbyshire and Gloucestershire on Wednesday, but was asked to stand down by the ECB.
The Pakistan Cricket Board has said that it wants the young pacers to gain from Dennis Lillee's expertise at MRF
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However, the Australian umpire will pursue a simultaneous law suit against the ICC for racial discrimination.
The Indian coach was reported by an Indian television channel as saying that there is "something seriously different" about Shoaib's action.
West Indies Cricket Board president Dave Cameron might have sounded defiant after the board meeting last week but it is being reported now that the members have forged an agreement to end the players' pay dispute that led to the West Indies team's abrupt pull-out from the India tour.
Nearly 14 months after firing Australian coach Geoff Lawson, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is again looking for a foreign coach. PCB chairman Ejaz Butt on Monday confirmed on a television show that he is in talks with some foreign coaches.
The former India coach says it will augur well for the longevity and future success of Indian cricket.
Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ejaz Butt says he is disappointed with senior batsman Younis Khan's refusal to make himself available for the tour of Australia, starting later this month.
India has not won an ICC event since the Champions Trophy triumph in 2013, and the team is keen to break the drought this time around.
Two bomb blasts in Lahore have led to a change of venue of a one-day match between the A teams of Pakistan and Australia
All players granted permission to play would have to be available to play at the World Cup and on the Ashes tour of England that follows in August and September, the governing body said in a statement.
Bangladesh have extended the contract of their Australian coach Dav Whatmore until 2007.
'I want them to play the game for the reasons they started playing the game at the first place, which is the love for the game. I don't know what it was like in the past but I will run this team like I have always done.'
