The ICC is cautiously optimistic that wearable sensors can provide the technological breakthrough needed to stamp out illegal bowling actions but does not expect them to be ready for trial in matches before mid-2015.
In motoring parlance, Australia spinner Steve O'Keefe is more reliable Korean car than prestige vehicle but his "happy" mental state makes him a great addition to the team garage, according to former England bowler Monty Panesar.
The Delhi seamer should be there before the third one-dayer to be held at Peshawar on March 19
Abu Dhabi cricket board president B R Shetty said they will get a better eleven from other Test playing countries if the Indian XI does not come.
Deepak Chahar has replaced Pandya in the squad, Ravindra Jadeja will come in for Axar, while Siddharth Kaul will be flown in as reinforcement for Shardul, the BCCI confirmed on Thursday.
In an attempt to minimise distractions at the Cricket World Cup that starts next month, defending champions India have banned WAGs, while Pakistan has called for no social media for their players.
BCCI chief Jagmohan Dalmiya said there is nothing new about it as Pakistan are not staging the tournament.
The inaugural edition will see top nine Test teams -- Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the West Indies -- fight for the top honours in 72 Test matches across 27 series over the next two years
The Board of Control for Cricket in India admitted on Friday that Irfan Pathan was approached by a "stranger" a few years back and said the discarded pacer did the right thing by informing the team manager.
Johannesburg, Dubai and Abu Dhabi are being considered as possible venues to host the Champions Trophy this year, a senior International Cricket Council official said on Monday. Sri Lanka is the back-up venue but Dave Richardson, ICC general manager for cricket, said some doubts had been raised as September-October, when the event is planned, would be the monsoon season in the island nation.
Having led India to three World Cup victories against Pakistan, former captain Mohammad Azharuddin feels the defending champions face no serious threat from their arch-rivals in the much-hyped encounter between the two sides in the cricket World Cup.
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.
According to a source in the BCCI, Kumble said: 'He doesn't want to continue with the team'
Kiwis face trial by spin as India commence run of 13 matches with Kanpur Test on Thursday
'It's been a love-hate relationship'
Shikhar Dhawan was ruled out of at least three World Cup matches after sustaining a hairline fracture on his left hand.
India's Team manager, Kapil Malhotra, for the Champions Trophy, has made a startling revelation.
Indian women's cricket coach Ramesh Powar insisted that Mithali Raj's axing from the World T20 semi-final was based on strategy and not acrimony.
Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan is the first player to score 400 runs and take 10 wickets at the same World Cup.
Questions are also being raised as to whether Anil Kumble will be again taking part in the interview process despite his stupendous record, after what all has transpired in the past 72 hours.
Kirti Azad hit out at Ishant Sharma and expressed concerns at the team's thin bowling option.
'I would have loved to win a 50-over World Cup. We had two chances, but we didn't convert them.' 'There are regrets, but not regrets that I will be thinking about for years and years.'
The Central Board of Direct Taxes was pulled up by the Public Accounts Committee for delay in tax recovery from the hosts of the 1996 cricket World Cup.
Cricketer Harmanpreet Kaur, who hit a stunning 171 not out in the recent women's cricket World Cup propelling India into the finals, has been promoted as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the Western Railway.
The Mumbai Cricket Association has changed its eligibility rules for contesting its forthcoming elections. The move is widely seen as a bid to prevent senior administrator Prof Ratnakar Shetty from regaining his place in its managing committee.
Thakur, who is expected to meet Board president, Jagmohan Dalmiya at his residence later in the afternoon, said that an announcement on support staff is on the cards.
'But Guptill played a brilliant innings in that partnership with Kane, built a lot of momentum.'
Neither the batting has worked nor has the bowling clicked in the two matches played so far.
'They should be conserved, preserved, and valued highly.'
Images from the T20 World Cup Super 12s match between India and New Zealand, in Dubai, on Sunday.
Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) confirmed that the Indian team will tour the country to play three One-day Internationals and two Twenty20s in July.
It was exactly 25 years when Mohammad Azharuddin-led India got the better of Sri Lanka in the final to win their fourth Asia Cup title, at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium, on April 14, 1995.
As Team India begins its campaign in the Champions Trophy, many await the outcome of the Virat Kohli-Anil Kumble tangle.
This year's Twenty20 World Cup could be moved to the United Arab Emirates if the COVID-19 crisis does not subside in India, the Board of Control for Cricket in India said.
Led by the ICC's head of events, Chris Tetley, and Board of Control for Cricket in India Tournament Director M V Sridhar, a joint team which arrived in the city on Sunday night, visited the stadium in the morning, carried out an inspection and met with PCA officials.
The bi-annual elections of the Mumbai Cricket Association are unlikely to be held before October, its president Ravi Savant said in Mumbai, on Wednesday.
The comprehensive loss to a rampant England side was the first time Australia had made the last four of the competition and not advanced to the final.
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