The World Anti-Doping Agency will conduct dope tests on players participating in the Indian Premier League.
Warne, Watson to play on Saturday Indian Premier League Commissioner Lalit Modi rubbished reports that Rajasthan Royals' skipper Shane Warne -- along with teammates Shane Watson and Graeme Smith is quitting the tournament due to the bomb blasts in Jaipur, saying the trio are already on their way to the Pink City to play the next match there.
Warne, Watson to play on Saturday Indian Premier League Commissioner Lalit Modi rubbished reports that Rajasthan Royals' skipper Shane Warne -- along with teammates Shane Watson and Graeme Smith is quitting the tournament due to the bomb blasts in Jaipur, saying the trio are already on their way to the Pink City to play the next match there.
Even before the inaugural edition of the Indian Premier League gets underway, the second season of the BCCI-backed Twenty20 venture has been scheduled tentatively from April 10 to May 29, 2009.
Two days after being handed out a five-year ban for bringing cricket into disrepute, Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar today suffered another major setback with the Indian Premier League also debarring him from taking part in the cash-rich event.
It is learnt that Pandove had applied for indemnity under Rule 34 of BCCI constitution where the organisation pays on behalf of the member if he is slapped with a penalty while discharging his function.
He attended the meeting as a special invitee for being a former president of the BCCI but not as CCI representative.
A beleaguered Vijay Mallya may have walked free on bail within hours of his arrest but the event, which he nonchalantly dismissed as "usual Indian media hype", had rival parties claiming credit for it and engaging in recrimination.
It is learnt from sources that the two companies today paid Rs 20 crore as guarantee deposit to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
The Board of Control for Cricket in India will on Thursday announce the winning bids for the eight Mumbai-based franchisee teams that will take part in the forthcoming Indian Premier League.
Former New Zealand captain Chris Cairns was charged in a north London police station on Thursday with perverting the course of justice.
The BCCI on Monday refused to confirm that Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan is bidding to buy a team in next year's Indian Premier League (IPL) but revealed that more than 100 bidders have already approached the board to buy a franchise for the Twenty20 extravaganza.
The BCCI emphasised that a change in the policy taken to cap players' endorsements at its last Working Committee meeting was to stay.
Upset over the row between Mumbai stand-in captain Harbhajan Singh and Punjab paceman S Sreesanth, Indian Premier League Chairman Lalit Modi on Saturday said it was a "serious matter" and was not good for the cash-rich Twenty20 tournament.
Nike has launched its first range of cricket apparel ahead of a long cricketing season.
The BCCI's multi-million dollar Indian Premier League also signed up into its growing fold Younis Khan, Mohd Asif and New Zealand's Brendon McCullum.
With the much-hyped Indian Premier League facing the hurdle of consolidating a place in the cricket calendar, its chairman Lalit Modi confessed that a second season for the star-studded Twenty20 competition is not possible for the next four years. After inaugurating the IPL, to be played from April 18 to June 1 between eight franchise teams, Modi said first space needs to be found for the 'Champions Twenty20.
The Indian team's formal wear and accessories, BCCI ratings, awards and web portal were approved by the Marketing Committee.
The jersey is made from Dri-FIT fabric, a Nike patented technology, which reduces cling and enables the skin to breathe better.
Owner of the Bangalore team, Vijay Mallya, said the structure of the IPL had all teams bid for as many Indian players as possible.
Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar, who is on a brief visit to the city, has already signed up for the Indian Premier League and is available to go under the hammer at the players' auction on Wednesday, IPL chief Lalit Modi said on Tuesday.
The fate of former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi, who contested the Rajasthan Cricket Association polls, is likely to be known on January 17 after the Supreme Court said it would open the sealed enveloped containing the results on that day.
Unabated uproar by Congress members in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday invited the wrath of Speaker Sumitra Mahajan who called their protests "murder of democracy" and "hijacking" the rights of 440 members by 40-50 others in the Opposition.
BCCI has stuck a deal with Nimbus Communications to telecast domestic matches live during the forthcoming season.
Singh, son of Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, has been under attack over media reports that his company received Rs 11.63 crore in investments from Modi in 2008.
Parliament proceedings were washed out for the fourth consecutive day on Friday as the Opposition remained unrelenting on its demand for the resignation of Union Minister Sushma Swaraj and chief ministers of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
The former India coach, along with bio-mechanist Ian Frazer, will join an academy set up by the Rajasthan Cricket Association.
The BCCI vice-president snubbed the Indian Cricket League as a set of "glorified exhibition matches".
BCCI said the Sports Broadcasting Bill passed by the Lok Sabha would affect the game in the country in the long run.
The BCCI's ground and title naming rights for 55 Tests and ODIs to be played in India in the next 31 months, beginning September 1, were sold to World Sports Group for Rs 173.25 crore.
With the Modi government battling propriety issues over the Lalit Modi row and the furore on Vyapam scam, leaders of "like-minded" parties will meet for Congress president Sonia Gandhi's Iftar dinner on Monday where they are likely to deliberate on the strategy for Parliament session beginning July 21.
The BCCI is all set to rope in IT giant Microsoft to evaluate the performance of umpires.
Lalitgate is so much like the Bofors arms scandal that eventually brought down the Rajiv Gandhi government despite his humongous parliamentary majority, Trinamool Congress MP Dinesh Trivedi tells Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com.
Britain has not yet acted upon 15 extradition requests sent by India, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
Media reports said Lalit Modi created a scene during the recent two-match India - Pakistan series, leaving government officials fuming.
The series involves three ODIs against South Africa and another against Ireland in Belfast.
BJP alleged that banks were 'pushed' into giving Rs 3,100 crore loan to him and unfreezing his bank accounts in 2012.
The BCCI, which has its own commercial deals worth $1 billion, refused last month to sign the ICC Members Playing Agreement (MPA) over long-term sponsorship for the world governing body.
The two-day meeting is scheduled in Singapore from December 7.
