Category: Cricket

Just two weeks after sacking former Test batsman, Basit Ali as Chairman of the national junior selection committee and head coach of the national women’s team, the Pakistan cricket board (PCB) has again restored him as chief junior selector. On January 2nd, PCB chief Shaharyar Khan removed Basit from both his official assignments after he was involved in a brawl […]

Rachael Heyhoe Flint, England’s former women’s captain and a global pioneer of the game, has passed away, aged 77, on Wednesday (January 18). In a total of 22 Tests and 23 ODIs in a career spanning 19 years starting from 1960, Heyhoe Flint averaged 45.54 and 58.45 with the bat respectively. Having taken over captaincy in 1966, she took England […]

Sridharan Sriram, the former Indian One-Day International (ODI) player, has been appointed as a spin consultant for Australia’s upcoming daunting tour of India. The 40-year-old, who played eight ODIs from 2000-04, was part of Australia’s coaching set-up last year during the World T20 in India and the tour of Sri Lanka. Sriram said he was excited to once again work […]

GVK Ranga Raju has been appointed president of the Andhra Cricket Association after an executive committee meeting at Vijayawada on Monday (January 16). The ACA, like other state associations, have been forced to elect new office bearers following the January 2-3 verdict of the Supreme Court, which besides axing the top brass of the Board of Control for Cricket in […]

A cricket stadium with a seating capacity of 1.1 lakh is in the works in Ahmedabad. Once completed, the stadium, designed by world renowned architect firm M/s. Populous, would be the biggest one in the world. The new stadium will be spread across a 63 acre land in Motera where the existing stadium has been demolished. “There will be a […]

West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) President Dave Cameron has renewed his commitment to making the embattled governing body profitable, as he announced a name-change of the organisation to Cricket West Indies. While no formal announcement of the name-change has been made, Cameron told the Guardian newspaper on Saturday the WICB would now be known as Cricket West Indies and that […]