Listening to Sachin Tendulkar declare that the Commonwealth Bank series win counted as the greatest moment of his cricketing career, I felt dismayed, then scornful, and then just old. Read the rest of this entry »

West Indies cricket chiefs have vowed they will fight any attempts to reduce their team to that of a ’second-tier’ Test match nation when the executive board of the International Cricket Council (ICC) meets at the governing body’s Dubai headquarters next week. Read the rest of this entry »

A day after Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan vowed to make the Indian Premier League’s (IPL) matches easily affordable for for spectators, the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) has come up with a startling proposal for the Eden Gardens’ ticket prices.
The CAB has proposed Shah Rukh’s Red Chillies Entertainment that ticket prices for each of the seven IPL matches should be — Rs 200, Rs 400, Rs 600, for the general stands at the 88-strong Eden Gardens stands, a top CAB functionary told The Indian Express late this evening. Read the rest of this entry »

Saurabh Tiwary will don the jersey of Bombay Indians for the Indian Premier League, which starts next month.

The 19-year-old southpaw from the steel city, and 14 other players who won the ICC under-19 World Cup recently in Kuala Lumpur, were selected for Indian Premier League teams through a draw at the second auction of cricketers in Mumbai today. Read the rest of this entry »

Former New Zealand captain Martin Crowe has a new role. He’s now the Chief Cricket Officer of the Bangalore Royal Challengers and will work with modern legends like Jacques Kallis, Rahul Dravid and Mark Boucher. He speaks to Cricinfo about his team’s plans and its core values. Read the rest of this entry »

Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) today sought time to file its reply to a show cause notice recently issued by a city court on a petition that challenged cricketers’ auction for the forthcoming Twenty20 IPL tournament. Read the rest of this entry »

Rod Bransgrove, the Hampshire chairman, believes that the domestic Twenty20 game must be “sexed up” to match the rise of the Indian Premier League (IPL) after Dimitri Mascarenhas became the first England player to sign up for the competition yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »

With Virat Kohli and his band of boys going under the hammer in the second IPL auction on Tuesday, doubts loom large over how the big deal will affect the cricketing career of the Indian Colts. Many fear the game of cricket will soon end up as a gamble of sorts with a pack of ‘class-less’ big-hitters leading from the front. Read the rest of this entry »

NEW DELHI: Former captain Rahul Dravid is not looking at next month’s Indian Premier League as a vehicle to return to India’s one-day squad but says he will just focus on playing good cricket and enjoy the new version of the game. Read the rest of this entry »

The money generated through the Indian premier League will be used to improve cricketing infrastructure, former Indian captain MAK Pataudi said on Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »