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Team India's grand gift for Dhoni

The entire Indian team that won the recently concluded T20I series against England presented former skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni with an innovative wooden plaque to serve as a memento for his services to the sport and for being a continuous source of inspiration to the Indian team.
2 February 2017

Full-strength India await Tigers

India yesterday named a 16-member team led by Virat Kohli to take on Bangladesh in the historic one-off Test match to be played in Hyderabad from February 9.
31 January 2017

BD Test in Hyderabad will be conducted smoothly: BCCI

How smoothly will be the one-off Test match between Bangladesh and India scheduled to start on 9 February at the Rajiv Gandhi stadium in southern Indian city of Hyderabad conducted?
23 January 2017

Hyderabad will host BD Test: Hyderabad Cricket Association

India’s Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) today rubbished speculations that the organisation will not host the India-Bangladesh Test scheduled in the southern city of Hyderabad from February 13 due to fund crunch.
9 January 2017

Sachin, Sunil laud Dhoni

With most of the cricketing fraternity still reeling from Mahendra Singh Dhoni's shocking decision to step down as captain of the Indian ODI and T20I teams on Wednesday night, there were few who could wrap their heads around the news fast enough to react.
5 January 2017

Cricket: Sunil Gavaskar wants Sourav Ganguly as BCCI boss

Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar has pitched for another former skipper Sourav Ganguly to take over as the head of Indian cricket board after the Supreme Court sacked Anurag Thakur as President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India and Secretary Ajay Shirke.
3 January 2017

Cricket: Indian court orders dismissal of BCCI chief

India's Supreme Court ordered the dismissal Monday of Anurag Thakur as president of the country's powerful cricket board over the failure to enact recommended reforms.
2 January 2017

Cricket: Aussies to prepare in Dubai for India

Australia plan to prepare for their Indian Test series in Dubai as team officials seek more control over the state of practice pitches, reports said Monday.
2 January 2017

PCB to sue BCCI for unplayed Test series

Pakistan cricket chiefs have said they will sue India for failing to honour a 2014 deal to play a bilateral Test series.
31 December 2016

Unnecessary pressure on BCCI: Thakur

BCCI president Anurag Thakur said there are few recommendations by justice Lodha Committee which the board members feel are not practical to implement but they have not been able to convey the same as the body has not given them time for last two months.
21 December 2016

BCCI threatens Champions Trophy pullout

The Indian Cricket Board's relations with the ICC, headed by Shashank Manohar, hit a new low after Indian women's cricket team was docked six points for not playing bilateral series with Pakistan between August 1 to October 31 as per agreement.
23 November 2016

India women’s cricket team penalised by ICC for skipping Pakistan matches

The International Cricket Council has docked six points of Indian women’s cricket team after they skipped all their three matches against Pakistan in the ICC women’s championship competition.
23 November 2016

Lodha panel urges SC to dismiss BCCI's top brass

The entire administration of the BCCI should be removed, the Lodha Committee has urged the Supreme Court.
21 November 2016

Cricket: India threaten to cancel England Test in funds row

India's cricket board threatened Tuesday to cancel the first Test against England, less than 24 hours before it was due to begin, unless judges end a freeze on its bank accounts.
8 November 2016

Cricket: India take Test gamble amid T20 love

India's cricket board may have rediscovered a love of Test cricket but with youngsters preferring the thrills of Twenty20 the decision to host 13 Tests this season represents something of a gamble.
8 November 2016

India's DRS apathy ends on Friday

India will become the last Test nation to embrace cricket's decision review system (DRS) this week when they take the field against England for the first Test on Friday, ending their resistance to on-field technology at a time of growing debate about its impact on the game.
6 November 2016

Cricket: DRS set for busy baptism on India's turning pitches

After years of resistance against the Decision Review System, the Indian cricket board has finally agreed to employ technology for the home tests against England and if the tourists' series in Bangladesh is anything to go by, it will get plenty of use.
4 November 2016

BCCI agrees to trial DRS

India ended its long-standing opposition Friday to cricket's Decision Review System (DRS), announcing it would be included on a
21 October 2016

BCCI threatens to pull out

Following its exclusion from the ICC's financial committee, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has threatened to pull out of the 2017 Champions Trophy.
7 September 2016

Angry BCCI mulls pulling out of Champions Trophy 2017

Miffed at being snubbed by the International Cricket Committee (ICC) over various recent decisions, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is mulling at the possibility of pulling out of next year's Champions Trophy, scheduled to be held in England.
7 September 2016