Tag: BCCI
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Is this the world cup or a joke
A reporter’s question that day put ICC chief executive Geoff Allardyce in an awkward position. It was the second week of June, the final of the ICC World Test Championship was taking place between India and Australia. According to the announcement made by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Secretary Jay Shah…
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BCCI earned $1.5 billion surplus in five years
A government minister listed BCCI’s recent earnings in Parliament on Tuesday, showing revenue of $919 million and expenditure of $370 million for the year till March 2022, leaving a surplus of $549 million. It was the board’s biggest surplus in five years to 2017-18, with earnings of $3.3 billion and expenses of $1.8 billion in…
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Sourav Ganguly met PM Hasina
According to the UNB report, former Indian cricket team captain and former BCCI president Sourav Ganguly and his wife Donna Ganguly called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence Gana Bhavan. PM’s speech writer Mohammad Nazrul Islam told reporters after the meeting. Bangladesh Cricket Board President Najmul Hasan Papon was also present at…
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India chief selector Chetan Sharma resigns after undercover sting
India’s chief cricket selector Chetan Sharma resigned on Friday, an official told AFP, after a TV network sting accused him of gossiping about players and claiming the widespread use of non-injectable injections to pass fitness tests. Caught after The 57-year-old accused former skipper Virat Kohli and former cricket board chief Sourav Ganguly of ego clashes…
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Is IPL replacing international cricket?
Ownership of IPL franchise teams in other leagues is also not a new phenomenon, with the owners of Knight Riders, Punjab Kings and Rajasthan Royals having teams in the Caribbean Premier League. Knight Riders owns the Trinidad and Tobago Knight Riders, Punjab Kings owns the St. Lucia Kings and Rajasthan Royals owns the Barbados Royals…
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BCCI will focus on fitness of players before ODI World Cup
The Cricket Board of India (BCCI) will increase its focus on player fitness and consider who has played enough domestic seasons while selecting them for the national team, it said on Sunday after a review meeting ahead of the 2023 World Cup. The board said the National Cricket Academy will work with teams in the…
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Indian captain Rohit will not be able to play the first test against Bangladesh
Updated India squad for Bangladesh Test: KL Rahul (C), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara (VC), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant (WK), KS Bharat (WK), Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav , Abhimanyu Easwaran, Navdeep Saini, Saurabh Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat.
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Ranatunga fired from Sri Lanka Cricket
Any cricketer will say test cricket is the real cricket. If one wants to see the beauty of cricket, he should watch test cricket. Cricket is known as gentleman’s game. But it seems situation is changing so quickly. Test cricket demands patience from spectators and players both. On the other hand one day cricket is…
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Sri Lanka Premier League deferred to 2012
The Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) has been deferred to Aug 2012 after confronting the array of problems, together with the astonishing withdrawal of Indian players from the tournament. In the place Sri Lanka Cricket, the league`s owners, will control the unchanging inter-provincial Twenty20 contest featuring 5 done during home sides though involving unfamiliar players.…
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SLPL to go upon sans India
Sri Lanka Cricket will pull brazen with a initial premier joining with Australian as well as Pakistani players, notwithstanding a no-show by Indian stars, a island’s sports apportion pronounced Sunday. “We will remove a bit of income since Indian players have been not entrance though a contest will be played as planned,” Mahindananda Aluthgamage told…
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Business heroes honoured
It was a special night to honour a country’s 5 blurb operation heroes — institutions as good as people — for receiving their ventures to a larger tallness of feat in their own areas. Amjad Khan Chowdhury, arch senior physical education instructor military officer of Pran-RFL Group, was recognized as a Best Business Person of…
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SLC Refuses BCCI’s Claim Regarding SLPL
On Saturday, BCCI asserted which the Indian players will not be authorised to experience in the Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) as the contest is privately-run. But BCCI’s claims have been rebuffed by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC). According to Nishantha Ranatunga, cabinet partial of of the Sri Lankan Cricket Board, SLPL is not usually…