Former India captain Bishan Singh Bedi feels the Board of Control for Cricket in India needs to appoint a 'strong coach' to guide the temperamental Test captain Virat Kohli, who has courted a lot of off-field controversies in recent times.
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Sourav Ganguly is set to be replaced as BCCI president by 1983 World Cup winning-team member Roger Binny.
Speaking to ANI, a BCCI official said the discussions between the BCCI and the Emirates Cricket Board went well and that the Indian board is confident that the remainder of the IPL will be held successfully in Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi.
He has been away from the hullabaloo of Indian cricket for the last six months but former Board of Control for Cricket in India president Anurag Thakur says if required, he 'won't shy away from accepting responsibility'.
The batting great, last month, accepted BCCI's offer to take over from Rahul Dravid at Bengaluru.
Secretary Niranjan Shah said the BCCI could, like Cricket Australia, demand payment for the right to distribute photographs for future domestic Test series.
The National Cricket Academy under the chairmanship of M P Pandove said it will enter into a strategic tie-up with Cricket Australia along with the setting up of an independent complex to shift the facility from Bangalore, while also extending help the national cricketers of Nepal, who have been affected by the earthquake.
Goel declined to comment on the letter written by Ramachandra Guha, one of the four members of Supreme Court- appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA), to implement the recommendations of the Justice R M Lodha panel to reform the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
Newly-elected president Sourav Ganguly said the Board of Control for Cricket in India will do everything possible to support current India skipper Virat Kohli and his team.
BCCI has said that government body has no jurisdiction to conduct dopes tests on Indian cricketers.
Ganguly is one of the 11 members of the world cricket committee, chaired by Mike Brearley of MCC, which announced the new Laws of Cricket, to be incorporated in the ICC Playing Conditions.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India will allow 20,000 spectators, mostly ticket-holding members of Cricket Association of Bengal, to watch the third and final T20I between India and the West Indies on October 20.
Leading players from top countries are clearly already struggling to cope with the demands of international cricket's packed calendar.
Legendary cricketer Barry Richards says the BCCI has transformed the game for commercial interests by its sheer money power.
Calling the India-New Zealand Test match at Indore a good experiment, Board of Control for Cricket in India president Anurag Thakur on Saturday said they will continue to take Test matches to smaller cities.
BCCI ethics and ombudsman, served a notice to Ambani after receiving a complaint from former MPCA member Sanjeev Gupta.
The off-spinner said he wants to play all the four games for Worcestershire even though he might get called up for the forthcoming One-Day International series against Australia next month.
Test match cricket faces a bleak future with the sport's administrators failing to control the 'runaway weed' of the hugely popular Twenty20 format, former West Indies pace bowler Michael Holding said.
Stokes, 27, was accused of knocking unconscious two men, Ryan Ali and Ryan Hale, in a brawl in Bristol, southwest England, last September just hours after he had played in a one-day international against the West Indies.
Former India captain Shantha Rangaswamy says the unprecedented nomination for the C K Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award doesn't hold much relevance for her but she would like to believe that the recognition is a giant step forward for women's cricket.
Former England captain Michael Atherton gives some credence, if reluctantly, to the view that England and Australia feel they have no choice but to grant India power in a way that will encourage them to run the world game responsibly - and even suggests India has now been affected with the arrogance of old colonialism.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India will hold it's Annual General Meeting on September 21 as per its existing constitution and is expected to wait for the Review petition verdict before getting into the implementation phase of the Lodha Committee Reforms.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India has delayed the knock-out matches of the Ranji Trophy by two days. Now, the quarter-finals will begin on June 6 and the title clash of the country's premier domestic tournament will commence on June 22.
Delhi's wicketkeeper-batsman Anuj Rawat, who recently captained India Under19 in four-day matches in Sri Lanka, is under the scanner for playing an unsanctioned T20 league in Mauritius last year along with a host of Pakistani cricketers.
Journalist-turned politician Rajiv Shukla says crowds will throng stadiums for Indian Premier League matches because they will offer a combination of quick cricket and entertainment.
BCCI senior vice president Gokaraju Gangaraju made it clear that his association Andhra Cricket Association will implement the Lodha reforms with immediate effect.
Former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin on Tuesday filed his nomination papers for Hyderabad Cricket Association president's post after incumbent Arshad Ayub quit office following the Supreme Court verdict on Lodha committee reforms.
Sharad Pawar appealed to batting great Sachin Tendulkar to help Mumbai cricket in a bid to bring it back to its glory years.
The newly elected BCCI chief wants a big stadium with seating capacity of 1.25 lakh to provide more seats to the cricket lovers.
The new system is likely to be implemented by November.
President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday welcomed the resumption of India-Pakistan cricketing ties saying it will help "promote peace and friendship" between the two countries and their people who can enjoy some "good cricket".
The Board of Control for Cricket in India in a letter to the prime minister said India ran the risk of being isolated in world cricket by not playing with Pakistan.
With the government making it clear that it will not be able to provide adequate security for IPL 7, the Board of Control for Cricket in India has started discussing with other cricket boards possible venues for the cash-rich Twenty20 tournament, the league's chairman, Ranjib Biswal, said on Friday.
The BCCI chief said "positive signals" are coming from the Indian government.
Sachin Tendulkar confirmed on Thursday that he is retiring from cricket after playing his 200th Test match next month.
Now we do not know if the Board bugs the dressing room or employs Pegasus in players' phones. But nothing stopped them from speaking with Kohli, points out Shekhar Gupta.
Neeraj Chopra, who won India's maiden athletic Gold on his Olympic debut, was awarded a cash prize of Rs 1 Crore by the BCCI
The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned hearing on the plea of the Board of Control for Cricket in India seeking to amend its constitution with regard to the tenure of its office bearers including president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah.
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