India women team cricketer approached to fix matches
They will need to bat the entire final day on a deteriorating Bay Oval pitch in Mount Maunganui on Wednesday to stop the hosts taking a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.
India left-hander Suresh Raina insisted that India are still a 'better side' than Bangladesh while vowing to make a strong comeback in the three-match One-Day International series after the visitors suffered a shock defeat in the first match in Mirpur, Dhaka.
Sri Lanka's players refused to take the field on the third day of the match in St Lucia on Saturday, delaying the resumption of play for almost two hours, after umpires Aleem Dar and Ian Gould had changed the ball and awarded West Indies five penalty runs.
As England paceman Jimmy Anderson faces the prospect of a ban following a complaint from India, relations between the sides are in danger of becoming seriously soured in the wake of the latest contentious issue involving the Asian powerhouse.
Kagiso Rabada has been banned from the series-deciding final Test for his celebration after getting England captain Joe Root out on the first day of the ongoing third Test in Port Elizabeth.
Paceman James Anderson has no need to tone down his aggression when England and India renew their rivalry in the fourth Test at Old Trafford in Manchester on Thursday, according to captain Alastair Cook.
Prem Panicker, one of the finest cricket writers, on the ICC's Code of Conduct.
Tainted Pakistani cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif will have to wait for some more days to learn their fate after the ICC's anti-corruption tribunal on Tuesday deferred its verdict on the spot-fixing row till February 5, according to reports.
The former opening batsman joined as DOC in December last year following the suspension of CEO Thabang Moroe and has since signed a two-year deal with the option of extending for a third term.
The introduction of the Code of Conduct for players has seen a fall in the number of on-field offences in the last two years.
Rajneesh Gupta takes a look at other major controversies between England and India in recent times.
Pakistan bowler Danish Kaneria was charged under Level 1.4 of the code, which refers to 'using language that is obscene, offensive or insulting' during the second day of the ongoing Test against Sri Lanka.
Match Referee Chris Broad had spoken to representatives of both India and Australia and advised them to avoid making inappropriate public comments.
Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal will miss the third and final Test against the West Indies after his appeal against a ball-tampering ban was dismissed by a judicial commissioner.
Reflecting on his infamous altercation with India all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, England pace spearhead James Anderson said the matter that brought a great deal of stress to him "went too far" and could have been dealt with on the day of the incident itself.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) refused to support India's bid to get a total ban imposed on sledging when the issue was discussed at the ICC chief executives' meeting in Kuala Lumpur last month.
All drug tests for prohibited substances during the ICC Champions Trophy produced negative results.
Australia spinner Brad Hogg was on Tuesday charged under Level 3 of the International Cricket Council's Code of Conduct following allegations that he verbally abused Indian skipper Anil Kumble and Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
West Indies captain Chris Gayle was fined 70 percent of his match fee for slow over-rate during the second Test against Sri Lanka.
The West Indies all-rounder was fined after he exchanged words with Australian Michael Clarke during their match on Wednesday.
Kagiso Rabada is appealing the guilty verdict handed to him by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for breaching their code of conduct in a last-ditch bid to be able to play in the rest of the gripping test series against Australia.
The racist and abusive remarks were picked up on a stump microphone at Centurion.
Woolmer said the umpires has been influenced by the world champions' excessive appealing and by the crowds.
Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh must count himself lucky that he escaped with just a 50 per cent fine of his match-fee.
The batsman became the first player ever to be suspended for breaching the ICC's code of conduct rules on racial vilification.
The International Cricket Council announced on Wednesday that teams will be allowed two additional reviews after 80 overs in an innings in Test matches where the Decision Review System is used from October 1.
West Indies did not have any complaints against their players since a revised code of conduct was introduced in April 2002.
His career is almost finished after being handed a 10-year ban by the ICC but Salman Butt is hoping that a possible amendment to the Code of Conduct would help him reduce the length of the ban and he would be able to return to competitive cricket.
The cricketers, who have been in the eye of a storm following their sexist remarks on 'Koffee with Karan', will be returning from Australia where they were to compete in an ODI series starting on Saturday.
Fast bowler Lungi Ngidi is expected to be sidelined with a knee injury for around 12 weeks, ruling him out of South Africa's home Test series against Pakistan starting next month as he seeks to be regain full fitness for the 2019 World Cup.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced a 15-man squad sans the name of the skipper for the forthcoming ICC T20 World Championship in the Caribbean.
The chair of the ICC's Code of Conduct Commission, The Hon Michael Beloff QC has dismissed Faf du Plessis's appeal after the South African captain was found guilty of changing the condition of the ball in breach of Law 42.3 during second Test against Australia in Hobart. Accordingly, the original decision of ICC Match Referee Andy Pycroft, finding Du Plessis guilty of a breach of Article 2.2.9 of the ICC Code of Conduct will stand. Pycroft had handed a 100 percent match fee fine, and consequently three demerit points, to Du Plessis on November 22 following his hearing of the charge, which was laid by the ICC Chief Executive David Richardson.
The India all-rounder was reported by the umpires for pointing NZ batsman Corey Anderson towards the pavilion in an "aggressive manner" after dismissing him.
Banned fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar is believed to have diluted his claim of being offered money to underperform. It is learnt that he told the ICC's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit, which was in Lahore to investigate his claims, that the offers were made to him in 1998-99, before the ACSU was formed.
'Somewhere along the way, elected office-bearers appeared to have lost sight of the interest of cricket and begun to pursue their own interpretation of what the game should be.' 'Families made it a tradition to have their representatives occupy, if not usurp, positions in state associations,' points out Vinod Rai, who will step down as head of the BCCI's Committee of Administrators on Wednesday, October 23.
Match referee Mike Procter found Nehra guilty of breaching the code of conduct by pre-empting a decision by the umpire in Saturday's tri-series match against Sri Lanka.
A look at the 10 cricketers who were punished for drug related offences.
The Indian coach was reported by an Indian television channel as saying that there is "something seriously different" about Shoaib's action.
