Observers also warned his death could signal fresh turmoil at the top of the board, with Narayanaswami Srinivasan, the controversial head of the global Cricket Council (ICC), tipped to try and wrest back power. When Dalmiya entered the Board of Control for Cricket in India...
“The PCB has given me a target that includes improving fitness, attending sessions with a psychiatrist and delivering lectures to young cricketers for awareness against misdeeds as a national player”, Asif, 32, told Reuters during a practice session at the Model Town...
Pakistan was forced to shift the League to Doha after grounds in the United Arab Emirates – where Pakistan have played all their home cricket since 2009 – were booked for a private league in January-February 2016.
The trio were suspended in 2010 for arranging no-balls to order during a Test match in England, as part of a complex betting scam uncovered by a tabloid newspaper sting that rocked cricket and also saw all three and their disgraced agent Mazhar Majeed serve time in jail.
India ensured Kumar Sangakkara’s retirement from worldwide cricket ended in heavy defeat as they completed a resounding 278-run victory to level the Test series with Sri Lanka.
A fairytale ending alluded, Sangakkara in his swansong after Sri Lanka suffered an embarrassing 278-run loss to India as the visitor’s levelled the three-match series at 1-1. “The idea is to have Pujara open with Rahul since it’s only one Test. He’s done...
The statement indicates that the Board is buying time to reach a policy decision on the issue and the PCB source indicated that things might not be that easy for Butt and Asif even after they return to playing domestic cricket with the National T20 championship in Rawalpindi from...
The previous afternoon – in a World Cup final now remembered for Adam Gilchrist’s squash-ball-in-glove heroics, floodlight failures and farcical organisation – Sangakkara and Sanath Jayasuriya had, for just over one quixotic hour, made the impossible seem plausible.
Bangladesh’s Test record remains dismal despite a stellar improvement in ODI cricket which saw the Tigers posted series wins against Pakistan, India and South Africa following their first-ever appearance in the quarter-finals of the World Cup held in Australia and New Zealand.