BCCI boss Anurag Thakur on Tuesday slammed former selection commmittee chief Sandeep Patil, saying it was "unethical" on his part to reveal certain confidential details about Sachin Tendulkar, M S Dhoni and others after his tenure ended earlier this month. Thakur stopped short of saying that action will be taken against Patil but said "right people in the BCCI" will speak to him soon over the issue which has created a major controversy. Patil, a former international cricketer, recently disclosed that the selection panel would have dropped Sachin Tendulkar before he eventually quit international cricket and that it had also considered removing M S Dhoni from ODI captaincy ahead of the 2015 World Cup.
Batting great Sachin Tendulkar and Dilip Vengsarkar are among 39 international players eligible to vote in the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) elections, scheduled to be held in Mumbai on October 4.
Former Union minister and Congress leader Rajeev Shukla was re-appointed chairman of the powerful IPL Governing Council on Monday, ending a month-long suspense over the selection for the top post in the cash-rich Twenty20 league.
The BCCI has said that money would not be a factor when appointing the next coach of India.
The match-fixing scandal that hit Kenyan cricket last year may have led to Sandeep Patil's name being cut out from the India coach shortlist
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 Indian squads for the upcoming Asia Cup T20 tournament in Bangladesh and the subsequent International Cricket Council World Twenty20 championship in India are to be chosen on February 5 at Delhi by the national selection panel headed by Sandeep Patil.
The former India 'A' coach hit out at the national selectors for not keeping faith in wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik for the ODI series against Pakistan.
India 'A' coach Sandeep Patil said he had suggested it to the BCCI but got no reply.
Former Team Director Ravi Shastri and current chairman of selectors Sandeep Patil are the most notable names among the 57 applications that the Board of Control for Cricket in India has received.
The CCB police, which is investigating charges of spot-fixing in the last two seasons of KPL, has so far arrested eight people, including four cricketers, the owner of the Belagavi Panthers' team and an international bookie.
"It's a huge challenge but India did it to us the last time over there (in 2001)," said the Australian captain.
Sandeep Patil though wants to see how the ICC recommendations work out in matches before commenting.
The former India batsman cited his contract with the Oman national team to pull out of the race
The former India batsman said he has taken up the assignment because India A don't have any matches scheduled.
Sandeep Patil, former Kenya cricket coach, is ready to talk to the ICC over the match-fixing scandal in Kenya.
The dashing middle order batsman is nursing a thumb injury.\n\n
India's Test skipper Virat Kohli along with his limited-overs counterpart Mahendra Singh Dhoni had a special meeting with head coach Anil Kumble and U-19 coach Rahul Dravid in Bengaluru on Sunday. The meeting was also attended by chief national selector Sandeep Patil, GM (Cricket Operations) MV Sridhar, National Cricket Academy's batting coach WV Raman, spin bowling coach Narendra Hirwani, chairman of junior selection committee Venkatesh Prasad and team physio Andrew Leipus.
The next month's tour to the African nation had been rendered doubtful owing to unresolved issues between the country's cricket board and host broadcaster Ten Sports.
'I have developed a style; so far it has worked,' says India 'A' coach Sandeep Patil.
The newly-appointed India 'A' coach said he and Wright will chalk out a gameplan for his team's tour of England.
The woman hailing from Tumkuru had come to the city to take membership in a tennis club functioning at the sprawling Cubbon Park when the incident occurred.
While Shastri in his inimitable manner was clear that YoYo test is here to stay, Kohli said that one should look at it as a "hard call" that benefits the team rather than being emotional.
Leg-spinner Piyush Chawla's good run in English county circuit continued with a match haul of 10-wickets for Somerset against Derbyshire in a Division One game London.
"It was not possible to play in Pakistan and a neutral venue as the Indian government would not give the permission," he was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India's cricket advisory committee comprising Sourav Ganguly, V V S Laxman and Sachin Tendulkar will conduct the interview of the shortlisted 21 candidates.
The Working Committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India will meet in Dharamsala on June 24 to take stock of matters, including appointment of the Indian team's head coach.
The police on Monday announced Rs 10 lakh reward for information about the person who planted the bomb that killed a woman and injured three others outside a restaurant in Bengaluru on Sunday night.
Manu Shankar/Rediff.com reports on Monday's selection committee meeting in Delhi.
Legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar would have been dropped from India's ODI team in 2012, had he not announced his retirement, former chief selector Sandeep Patil revealed in an interview ABP Majha on Wednesday. Patil, who has been succeeded by former India wicketkeeper MSK Prasad, said the then selectors had met Tendulkar in December, 2012 in Nagpur during India's Test against England to ask him about his plans.
Best remembered for his match-winning 281 against Australia at the Eden Gardens in 2001, former India batsman VVS Laxman revealed he was not fit enough to play that Test against Australia.
There were no surprises when the Board of Control for Cricket in India announced India's squad for the for the upcoming World Cup.
In a nightmarish experience caught on camera, five women sitting in a car were stalked and harassed by unidentified men in the heart of the city with their screams for help going unnoticed.
The selection meeting to pick the Indian team for the Test series in Australia next month has been postponed, the Board of Control for Cricket in India said on Tuesday.
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