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 [...]

BCCI forced star batsman Sachin Tendulkar to withdraw from an exhibition match on Friday because one of the participants, New Zealander Hamish Marshall, had links to the rebel Indian Cricket League.

Sachin Tendulkar at a recent practice session.

Tendulkar and teammate Dinesh Karthik had been given permission by officials to play in a lighthearted match between former [...]

India’s rebel Twenty20 league is considering legal action after failing in the latest bid for recognition because of staunch opposition by the Indian board, former India skipper Kapil Dev said on Wednesday.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) was unsuccessful in its bid to end a dispute between the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) [...]

LAST week Mumbai media mogul Subhash Chandra was calling for more cooperation within India’s $US12.5 entertainment industry to create a bigger overall business that he says could be worth $US60 billion within 10 years.
Today, he’ll be hoping there might be some of that cooperation in the air when he sits down in Johannesburg for crucial [...]

The International Cricket Council (ICC) will meet Monday in an attempt to end a dispute between the Indian board and an unofficial Twenty20 league.
The ICC president David Morgan confirmed he and chief executive Haroon Lorgat would meet Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Indian Cricket League (ICL) officials.
“I’ve long regarded it as [...]

A SECOND private Twenty20 league has struck financial difficulty, with some Indian Cricket League players more than $100,000 out of pocket as the splurge of money on the shortest format of the game dries up due to economic strain affecting world markets.
However, Cricket Australia believe they will be immune from the problems [...]