Former Selection Committee chairman Kris Srikkanth, who has been accused of shielding Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni despite poor performances, on Thursday, hit back saying that it is not right to rake up issues discussed in the panel meetings.
Cricketer Manpreet Singh Gony's mother accused her son of threatening to kill her over a disputed property at Mohali.
Former BCCI chief Narayanswami Srinivasan revealed how he exercised his authority as then Board president in 2011-12 to save Mahendra Singh Dhoni from being sacked as India captain after suffering a 0-4 Test series whitewash in Australia. The national selection committee led by Mohinder Amarnath was keen on replacing Dhoni as the captain after India suffered 0-4 successive whitewashes in England and Australia in 2011-12.
Former selector Mohinder Amarnath has openly stated that Mahendra Singh Dhoni needs to be stripped off Test captaincy, but his former teammate Sunil Gavaskar feels the 'time is not opportune as there is no alternative'.
Security forces launched the operation in Macchil sector in north Kashmir's Kupwara district following information about presence of terrorists in the area.
As former selector Mohinder Amarnath and other former players launched an offensive against Mahendra Singh Dhoni by questioning his place in the Test side, the Indian captain was calmness personified on the eve of the fourth and final Test in Nagpur.
Former selector Mohinder Amarnath questioning Mahendra Singh Dhoni's place in the Indian team, accusing him of blocking the entry for other deserving wicket-keepers.
On this day in the year 1983, India lifted their first ever Cricket World Cup title, defeating West Indies by 43 runs at Lord's.
Selection committee chairman Krishnamachari Srikkanth expressed confidence of a good showing from India's 15-memeber squad in the first two ODIs against England, saying it is "well-balanced" and "completely fit".
Lambasting the DDCA for deciding to install a statue of its late former president Arun Jaitley at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground in New Delhi, spin legend Bishan Singh Bedi has asked the body to remove his name from the spectators' stand, named after him in 2017.
Former India captains Bishan Singh Bedi and Anil Kumble along with yesteryear's great Mohinder Amarnath had deposed before the Justice Lodha Committee as they prepare an exhaustive report on the restructuring and reforms that need to be carried by the BCCI.
The gun allegedly used by Bhardwaj to kill Singh originally belonged to Additional SP, Hisar, Ashok Sohran, Gurgaon Commissioner of Police Mohinder Lal told media persons in Gurgaon. Sohran has claimed that he had lost the weapon during a police operation.
'When a player is so confident, even though I was not too keen, I thought, 'let him bowl another over'. They say, some things just happen for you and this happened with us'
India have missed a trick by failing to include a specialist left-arm spinner in their World Cup squad, says former India cricketer Mohinder Amarnath.
The World Cup belonged to Yashpal as much as it belonged to Kapil Dev, Mohinder Amarnath or Roger Binny, whose performances are often highlighted.
Former India cricketer Mohinder Amarnath on Monday criticised Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men for taking a depleted Australian side too lightly and said the hosts' overconfidence eventually cost them the ODI series.
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.
'Every individual is different but one thing I have always believed in is that if you want to play for India you have to play for your state as well. I think they (BCCI) should change this policy altogether. A lot of senior players don't play domestic cricket'
India captain Virat Kohli, on Wednesday, said that for the game cricket to sustain globally, Test cricket needs to be the premier format.
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The petitioners claim the summons was served via hospital staff, a claim refuted by sources close to the Congress president. George Joseph reports from New York.
Former West India batsman Desmond Haynes has also been called for an interview by the BCCI for the India coach post.
BCCI president Ranbir Singh Mahendra said efforts are on 'to get in touch with 2-3 other former internationals from abroad before the final selection is made'.
The BCCI denied the Delhi Government permission to felicitate World Cup winners (1983 and 2011) from the state, along with former captain Bishan Singh Bedi, inside the Feroz Shah Kotla's field of play, saying that the planned ceremony would have violated norms.
Gambhir, who played all his domestic cricket for Delhi and was also captain for a long time, rued the state of affairs in DDCA.
The bodies of two terrorists had been recovered on Sunday.
The EC had found no merit in the plea.
'The West Indies' pace battery was lethal.' 'Watching Gavaskar, Gaekwad, Amarnath and Vengsarkar play against those bowlers I learnt so much.' 'Everybody was getting hit.' 'Someone got hit on the fingers, someone on the chest, someone on the face, but they all showed guts.'
'They are in the process of building a new team. But from what I watched in the first Test, some of the players are really good. You can't just rule Australia out of the series. Of course India are more superior but again they have to continue playing good cricket'
'The minute Newton was selected for the Oscar, the Iranian film came into the picture.' 'Almost as if the attempt to pull Newton down was planned.'
'Good shot, yaar; but why are you batting so aggressively, almost angrily?' Amarnath wants to know. 'Jimmy pa, you don't know, he swore at me in Madras. I have been waiting for an opportunity to give it back!' Yashpal responds.
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The EC is perhaps the only body in the country still untarnished and commanding universal respect round the world. It has often been savaged by the ruling political dispensations in the past also, but the EC has come out with flying colours in every case including the latest one against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, says B S Raghavan.
'It is not that we took the decision out of some vengeance.' ' 'It was not that we dropped someone because we had some enmity with him.'
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