The Board of Control for Cricket in India is mulling to restart the prestigious Duleep Trophy and the Irani Cup, while a full Ranji Trophy season is also on the cards for the upcoming domestic season.
Eyeing a windfall of close to Rs 50,000 crore, the Board of Control for Cricket in India on Tuesday floated the media rights tender for the next five seasons of IPL from 2023 to 2027.
England's swashbuckling batsman Jos Buttler says Indian greats Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly's big hundreds in the 1999 World Cup match against Sri Lanka had an 'incredible impact' on him.
The last date for filing the nominations for the ICC top job is October 20. The ICC Board will meet from November 11-13 in Melbourne.
Skills should be preferred over yo-yo tests, says Virender Sehwag.
The BJD's candidate selection was based on several permutation and combination, a party leader said adding that apart from being a green horn and a woman, Barsha will get sympathy vote.
Australia great Ian Chappell says Virat Kohli is an exceptional captain who has carried the Indian team to a higher level, whereas England's Joe Root is a "fine batter but poor captain".
Also, it said that Ganguly, who is set to be discharged on Wednesday, had an "uneventful day".
Shah will have the responsibility of heading ICC's most important committee. Al the major financial policy decisions are taken by the F&CA committee before it is ratified by the ICC board
Wearing all protective gears such as mask and gloves, the former India captain Sourav Ganguly visited the ISKCON city centre and promised support. Ganguly had earlier donated 20,000 kilograms rice at the Belur Math, the headquarters of the Ramkrishna Mission.
The Indian team is likely to tour Australia twice in the next Future Tours Programme (FTP) cycle from 2024-2032, with the number of Tests per series increased from the existing four to five.
BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Wednesday left for Dubai to oversee preparations for a bio-secure IPL, beginning on September 19.
With the Indian Premier League postponed to April 15 and the BCCI office shut down in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, Board of Control for Cricket in India president Sourav Ganguly has got a welcome off day from his busy schedule. With the sporting world going into a complete shutdown, the ever-busy former India captain got a chance to cool his heels on Wednesday.
Ganguly was impressed by Rohit, who has won a record five Indian Premier League (IPL) titles for Mumbai Indians, and said he should be given a longer rope before being compared with the likes of the great MS Dhoni and Kohli.
Following his tweet about the threat from a journalist, former head coach Ravi Shastri and former India stars Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Sigh came out in his support and asked Saha to reveal the name of the scribe.
Ritwik outclassed Supreet Singh in the second round of the qualifiers at the Kolkata International Squash tournament.
The Headlingley triumph marked the start of a new and important chapter in Indian cricket, with the Indians winning consistently away from home from that point onwards.
Mamata Banerjee, on Monday, congratulated former Indian cricketer Sourav Ganguly,
'He is probably the best person to ask about the discrepancy in what you seem to have to say and what the Indian captain has said.'
Family members of Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) secretary Snehashish Ganguly tested positive for COVID-19, the state health department said in Kolkata on Friday. The wife of Snehasish, the elder brother of BCCI president Sourav Ganguly, was found positive for the disease.
Former chairman of selectors Kris Srikkanth likened Sourav Ganguly with West Indies great Clive Lloyd, and described the current BCCI president as a born leader, who inspired the Indian cricket team to dream big on foreign shores.
IPL can be truly said to have come of age. It is now more Indian than ever before. Teams often fielded fewer than the four allowed foreign players. Indian batters and bowlers were simply better in performance, consistency and reliability, points out Shreekant Sambrani.
Former India opener Virender Sehwag has called out Shoaib Akhtar's bowling action, saying that the Pakistan fast bowler used to jerk his elbow while bowling and 'knew he was chucking too'.
ICC had clarified that BCCI would keep the hosting rights of the tournament even if it is moved out of India.
Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar's nomination to the Rajya Sabha drew mixed reaction with most members of the upper House on Friday, welcoming the decision even as the Opposition felt this could be a move by the Congress to divert attention from the problems afflicting the party.
Ganguly didn't say when would the BCCI consider having crowds back for IPL.
BCCI is expected to hold a discussion on matters related to women's IPL at its annual general meeting in September this year. Much of the planning around the tournament will be around sale of its media rights.
It was a special day for Virat Kohli at the Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali on Friday as he complete the landmark of 100 Test matches.
On Friday, Virat Kohli will achieve the milestone of playing 100 matches in the longest format.
With the war in Ukraine entering its 12th day on Monday and tensions between Kyiv and Moscow showing no signs of easing, the students said there is panic in Belarus and their families in India too are concerned about their wellbeing.
Basking in the glory of becoming only the 12th Indian cricketer to play 100 Tests, Virat Kohli said he wants the "next generation" to take inspiration from the fact he could achieve the milestone despite playing in all three formats of the game in a gruelling international schedule.
Ms Usha may soon discover that winning four gold medals at the Asian Games and qualifying for the Los Angeles Olympics is a walk in the park compared with the challenges of stabilising governance at the IOA, observes Kanika Datta.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India will ask out-of-favour senior wicketkeeper-batter Wriddhiman Saha about the context of his tweet, which alleged that a journalist had threatened him for not agreeing to grant an interview.
Virat Kohli's future as India's ODI captain will be decided this week when the national selection committee, led by Chetan Sharma, selects the squad for the upcoming tour of South Africa.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee presented one of her paintings to Sachin Tendulkar even as the Eden Gardens crowd gave the legendary batsman a standing ovation at the end of the first Test against the West Indies -- his 199th and penultimate -- in Kolkata on Friday.
Sourav Ganguly cannot seek a finer redemption than to excel against Greg Chappell's newly ordained protgs.
The most successful opening pair in One-Day Internationals -- Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly -- believe that they would have scored a lot more runs if the new rules were in operation during their playing days.
