The former Pakistan skipper Wasim Akram, and a regular ESPN Star Sports (ESS) commentator, will reportedly not be commentating during the ESS broadcast Champions League Twenty20, beginning in India this week, because he is Pakistani.
Currently he is part of ESPN’s commentary panel for the ongoing Champions Trophy in South Africa.
Sources close to the former Pakistani paceman [...]

Australian vice-captain Michael Clarke has declared himself unavailable to play for New South Wales at the inaugural Champions League Twenty20 tournament in India next month.
The stylish right-hander cited his heavy playing workload with the national team in opting out of the lucrative two-week tournament starting on October 8.
But the Blues will be taking the likes [...]

HT Media has won the inaugural Champions League Cricket Tournament which was held at MGM ground in Noida.
Altogether 6 teams including HCL, New Holland, Snowberry, Xevoke, Saffron and HT Media participated in this tournament.
In an exciting encounter, HT Media scored 188/8 in 25 overs.
In reply, HCL were bowled out for 87 in 18.2 overs.
HT Media [...]

 
 When Babe Ruth signed a whopping contract for the New York Yankees on the eve of the Great Depression he was asked what he thought about earning more than the President of the United States, Herbert Hoover: “What’s Hoover gotta do with it? I had a better year than he did,” the Babe said. But [...]

If the Indian team doesn’t heed the disquieting signs swirling around, it might turn up at the Twenty20 World Cup in England like that abled king in his new clothes. 
True, it has lost only two matches in succession, and the last one in Wellington could easily have even landed in its blue-blooded lap; but it is [...]

One day he’s selecting the national team, on another he’s playing in a Masters match. Dion Nash wears many hats these days but Indians will remember him best for the devastating spell of seam bowling on the opening day of the 1999 tour when he took 6 for 27 and bowled India out for just [...]

New Zealand Cricket used two broad themes to market India’s tour. The first — “The Rockstars are coming” worked perfectly with the second – “This is cricket, anything can happen.” For the NZC, India’s tour was of huge significance with telecast rights being sold for NZ$ 25 million. For the New Zealand team, the tour [...]