Category: Cricket

Sundar Raman, the chief operating officer of Indian Premier League (IPL), has stepped down from his post. Shashank Manohar, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president, has accepted his resignation. Thursday (November 5) will be Raman’s last day as the IPL COO. Raman, who has been IPL COO since the inception of the tournament in 2008, was one […]

Former Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik announced his retirement from Test cricket after he failed in the second innings of the third Test against England in Sharjah on Tuesday. The 33-year-old only made a comeback in the longer format of the game after five years in the first Test against England in Abu Dhabi, smashing a career-best 245. But since then […]

In a stunning development, Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal, who has been barred from international cricket due to a suspect action since September last year, has reportedly accused Indian off-spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Harbhajan Singh of chucking. In a series of tweets, Zainab Abbas, a sports anchor-analyst for a local Pakistani TV channel, revealed that Ajmal claimed in an interview that […]

Virender Sehwag, who recently called time on his glorious international cricket career, said the sadness of being “deprived of a farewell game shall always remain” in his mind. “Had the selectors told me that they were going to drop me, I could have requested them to allow me to play my last Test in Delhi and then announce my retirement, […]

Imran Khan, Pakistan’s World Cup-winning cricket captain, has divorced his second wife, Reham. The 63-year-old politician had formally married the former BBC presenter in a high-profile wedding in January 2015. The news of their romance broke in British media in December 2014. The 42-year-old Reham, a divorced mother of three, had secretly dated Imran, who was earlier married to Jemima […]

Melbourne: Cricket Australia (CA) has elected David Peever as the replacement for retiring chairman Wally Edwards. CA conducted its Annual General Meeting here on Thursday in which Peever was elected, it said in a statement. The 58-year-old is the retired managing director of business firm Rio Tinto Australia. He has been a CA director since 2012. He takes over the […]