Mumbai Indians’ travel to Dharamsala for their upcoming IPL 2025 match against Punjab Kings has been delayed due to the closure of the Dharamsala airport amid heightened security following escalating tensions between India and Pakistan. Flight operations at several airports in northwest India-including Dharamsala, Chandigarh, Leh, Jammu, Srinagar, and Amritsar – have been suspended until […]
Former BCCI cricket administrator professor Ratnakar Shetty New Delhi:Ratnakar Shetty, a chemistry professor, began his journey as a cricket administrator in 1975 as staff-in-charge of cricket at Mumbai’s Wilson College. He then moved through the ranks, from the Bombay Cricket Association’s tournament committee to manager of Indian cricket teams and the Board of Control for […]
Former cricketer Shreevats Goswami has urged the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) to bring an end to all cricketing ties with Pakistan in the wake of the terrorist attack in Jammu & Kashmir’s Pahalgam. As many as 26 people have been confirmed dead in the heinous attack on innocent tourists perpetrated by […]
Sharmila Tagore has voiced her disappointment over the BCCI’s decision to discontinue the Pataudi Trophy, which honors her late husband, cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi. A key figure in Indian cricket during the 1960s and 1970s, Pataudi’s legacy was celebrated through the Test series, which began in 2007 to mark the first India-England Test in […]
Sanju Samson (BCCI/IPL Photo) MUMBAI: In a big boost for the Rajasthan Royals, India’s T20 ‘keeper-bat and opener Sanju Samson is set to resume his captaincy and wicketkeeping duties after being cleared by the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Bengaluru. The Rajasthan Royals captain, who had a […]
Everybody has a plan to make cricket more equitable, bring in more money, have more rational calendars, comprehensible points systems and so on. The International Cricket Council, sadly, isn’t one with such plans. Some years ago, the Woolf Report put forward ideas which were heartily ignored. Now the World Cricketers’ Association (WCA), a body with […]
Logo of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Mumbai: India will tentatively host the Women’s ODI World Cup in September this year, with the opening ceremony of the global tournament and the first match scheduled for Vizag, while Guwahati will stage its maiden Test match when it hosts the second Test between […]
