Australia have until Oct. 15 to make changes to their 15-man squad
The observer for Tuesday's BCCI elections also gave voting right to the Jharkhand State Cricket Association.
It was the final time that India's most successful skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni was seen leading the national side although it is an 'A' team.
The 10th season of the Big Bash League (BBL) will coincide with the much-anticipated India's tour of Australia, the host board announced on Wednesday unveiling a 61-match schedule for the country's premier T20 event.
While Tendulkar would overtake Kapil Dev's record of 131 Test caps in the third Test.
After his retirement, Sachin Tendulkar, Rediff.com's Harish Kotian discovers, has become more outspoken about cricketing issues.
On the ropes at 43-4 early in their innings, Pakistan rallied behind spectacular half centuries from Iftikhar Ahmed and Shadab Khan to post 185 for nine and delight the lively crowd of 30,000 roaring them on at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
India Test discard Virender Sehwag has been roped in to captain the Marylebone Cricket Club squad in a four-day Champion County match against Durham, starting March 23, in Abu Dhabi.
.The opening Twenty20 encounter in the Cricket Board-promoted Indian Premier League will see liquor baron Vijay Mallya's Bangalore outfit take on Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan's Kolkata side at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium under lights on April 18
'I have been the president for 14 times and I am going to contest the elections again and I am confident I will be elected unaninmously for the 15th straight year,' the veteran administrator said.
The MCG is under pressure to ensure a safe pitch ahead of the Boxing day Test.
Jagmohan Dalmiya was banned for misappropriation of funds and would not be allowed to hold any position at the national or state level.
He is just 18 but is capable of bowling really quick as was proved when he touched 139.8kmph against Pakistan in the last Under-19 World Cup. Meet India's young pace gun -- Avesh Khan, an unassuming 18-year-old from Indore, who wants to create his own identity.
He attended the meeting as a special invitee for being a former president of the BCCI but not as CCI representative.
Raj Singh Dungarpur has decided to end his 12-year reign at the Cricket Club of India.
The September 27-28 meeting will, for the first time, elect office-bearers and selectors for a two-year term.
The format has been tweaked and there will be eight groups of four teams each with the plate group comprising six teams.
Former BCCI chief and CCI president Raj Singh Dungarpur is hoping to bring international cricket back to the historic venue.
Talented Indian opener Prithvi Shaw, who slammed a double hundred on his return to competitive cricket, said he was keen to get back to form quickly after spending eight months in the wilderness due to a doping offence. Shaw was handed a back-dated eight-month suspension in July for a doping violation after ingesting a prohibited substance Terbutaline.
He would play three matches for Lashings World XI in the next couple of weeks.
In the aftermath of the IPL spot-fixing scandal the BCCI may have been shrouded by controversy but with Jagmohan Dalmiya back as president the Indian cricket board is in "safe hands", former India captain Sourav Ganguly said.
Close on the heels of Parveez Rasool's selection in the Indian team for the Zimbabwe tour, another Jammu and Kashmir cricketer Shubham Khajuria was on Wednesday selected in the India Under-19 squad for the tour of Sri Lanka.
Alastair Cook's England seem to have neither the form nor the resources to repeat their 2012 heroics against an Indian team determined to cement their top Test rankings in a five-match series starting at Rajkot on Wednesday.
Inclement weather poses a threat to the India-Australia T20 international in Rajkot on Thursday, with the Met department forecasting rainfall over the next 48 hours.
Chennai Super Kings have so far failed to display the stuff that won them the IPL last season, and new skipper Ravindra Jadeja must seek improvement on multiple fronts against Punjab Kings when they meet at the Brabourne stadium in Mumbai on Sunday.
Indian batsman Gautam Gambhir will re-join Essex cricket team on Tuesday to play the remainder of his maiden English county season after he returned home for a brief period due to family issues.
The Cricket Club of India will present it to Indian cricketers who have scored a century or taken five or more wickets in an innings at the ground.
MP was a good team but it was Pandit, who brought about changes that were required to transform it into a champion team
England is the third team to figure in the tournament in which all matches will be played at the Cricket Club of India's Brabourne Stadium.
Mithali Raj's 73 went in vain as India suffered a five-wicket loss to give to England eves a 2-0 series lead.
Virat Kohli, who will turn 34 on Saturday, is back in his element
Team India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Thursday donated his cricketing equipment to the ball boys present at the ground just after their innings and 57-run win over South Afica in the second and final Test at the Eden Gardens.
Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Shaharyar Khan said it is ready to take legal recourse and seek compensation from the Board of Control for Cricket in India after the ICC ruled in Pakistan's favour in a dispute over the women's series which was not held in September-October in Dubai.
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.
All these male politicians are unlikely to risk their sinecures to speak up in support of a bunch of women wrestlers who have chosen to challenge a politician who appears to have the ruling regime in a stranglehold, points out Kanika Datta.
Penpix of the Afghanistan squad for the 2015 cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand
Five brothers playing first class cricket, including four appearing in Test matches as well, reads like a fairy tale. But it is true. Indeed, cricket historians and statisticians have never been tired of recounting how Hanif Mohammad, who passed into the ages on August 11, and his three brothers dominated Pakistan cricket in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Apart from Hanif, eldest Wazir Mohammad and younger ones Mushtaq Mohammad and Sadiq Mohammad represented Pakistan in the top division of cricket.
All that's transpired on and off the cricket pitch on Wednesday.
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