- Rasool's five gives India Green upper hand
The offspinner combined with left-arm quick Aniket Choudhary to skittle India Blue for 177 in two sessions on the first day in Kanpur
- DDCA rejects amendment abolishing proxy voting
The Delhi and Districts Cricket Association also rejected proposed amendments related to the Lodha Committee recommendations
- BCCI to challenge Kerala High Court order on Sreesanth ban
In August, the High Court had ordered the BCCI to lift the life ban on the fast bowler, stating the board had no "incriminating evidence"
- Eden Gardens' preparation for second ODI hit by rain
Questions remain over pitch preparation as the ground remains covered
- CoA asks states to pass resolution for obtaining funds
The draft resolution was sent to the state associations, including the Associate BCCI member units, on Sunday, and requires them to affirm that they will implement the Lodha Committee recommendations
- South Africa-India New Year's Test likely from January 5
Cricket South Africa and the BCCI are on the verge of finalising the details of the tour in the coming days
- Pandya's all-round heroics down Australia
Hardik Pandya single-handedly won India the first ODI of the series, setting up his 2 for 28 by rescuing the hosts from 87 for 5
- Hooda hundred earns India Blue three points
Karn Sharma took his second five-for in as many matches for India Red, who are now through to the final
- Jadeja returns to India's ODI squad
He replaces Axar Patel, who sprained his left ankle during a training session ahead of the first ODI, which takes place in Chennai on Sunday
- Kohli explains his method of scoring hundreds
"I don't play for the three-figure mark maybe that's why I end up crossing it more times, because I am not thinking about it"
- India, Australia set to resume high-scoring rivalry
Since January 2013, the average first-innings score in ODIs between the two sides is 321. Will the MA Chidambaram Stadium witness another run-fest?
- Troubled by the way Kumble was made to exit - Sehwag
The former India opener also said he only applied for the India coach job after being asked to by the BCCI secretary, the move was supported by Virat Kohli, and he did it because Ravi Shastri told him he would not apply for the position
- BCCI exploring a men's and women's double-header tour
The board is attempting to schedule three T20I matches for the women's team to coincide with the men's T20I matches when India tour South Africa early next year
- Indrajith savours a back-to-the-wall double-hundred
The 23-year old batsman from Tamil Nadu took India red from 205 for 9 to 383 to give them a chance in the Duleep Trophy game against India Blue
- 'No excuses of burnout or being on tight schedule' - Rohit
India's ODI vice-captain said that while rotation kept the players fully fit, he would not like to take a break since he has only recently returned from an injury layoff
- Ganguly backs pink-ball cricket in India
Ganguly insisted the pink-ball concept, used in India's Duleep Trophy, needed to be trialled continuously so that India could be ready at some stage to host day-night Tests
- Expect surprises from Dhoni with the bat - Shastri
The India coach does not subscribe to the idea that MS Dhoni is a fading force, saying if he can continue performing, he should play the next World Cup
- Dhawan sidelined from first three ODIs against Australia
The India opener has asked for leave to look after his wife, who is unwell
- PCB to seek ICC help to resolve bilateral-tours standoff
The PCB is set to take the BCCI to the ICC's dispute resolution panel, with the two boards having failed to resolve their long-standing issue of not fulling their Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on bilateral tours
- Kohli better than Smith in limited-overs - Clarke
The former Australia captain says Smith is ahead of the Indian captain in Tests, and feels they are pretty even as leaders
- JKCA painting 'misleading picture' - Vinod Rai
The CoA chairman has said the BCCI has withheld funding to the state association only because of its non-compliance with the Lodha Committee's recommendations, and that safeguards are in place to ensure J&K can participate in domestic cricket
- J&K players ask CoA to intervene with participation in doubt
J&K player Samiullah Beigh has written an e-mail to Vinod Rai, chairman of the CoA, to resolve the "genuine grievances" with their "careers at stake"
- Pant, Panchal in India A squad for New Zealand series
Ishan Kishan and Aniket Choudhary were left out of the squad that levelled the two-match series in South Africa last month
- Umesh, Shami return to India ODI squad
R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja, however, have been rotated out while the core of the batting line-up remained the same
- Panchal and Karthik flatten India Green
The pair scored unbeaten centuries - it was Priyank Panchal's second ton of the match - as India Red set India Green a massive 474 for the win
- No new playing conditions for India-Australia, England-WI series
Since the revised playing conditions will come into effect midway through both series, the ICC has decided to let them go ahead as per the old rules
- Gowtham, Karn leave India Red in command
On a day when 16 wickets tumbled, India Green lost their last eight for 34 runs as they conceded a first-innings lead of 166
- India host Australia and New Zealand from Sept 17 to Nov 7
A total of eight ODIs and six T20Is are to be played over the course of a little under two months
- Teams share opening-day honours despite Panchal's 105
The domestic season kicked off with the first day's action from the pink-ball Duleep Trophy encounter between India Red and India Green
- 'India very like the All Blacks' - Pothas
Sri Lanka's interim coach commended India's collective effort and work ethic, comparing them to arguably the most successful rugby team in the world
- Kohli, Pandey lead the way as India complete 9-0 sweep
Virat Kohli followed up successive hundreds in the last two ODIs with another display of ruthless efficiency in a chase, and ensured India left Sri Lanka no crumbs of comfort at the end of a long and chastening month-and-a-half of one-sided contests
- Huge IPL rights deals to leave franchises richer
The massive amounts flowing into the BCCI through the IPL title sponsorship and media rights mean three times more money - at least - for the eight franchises
- Last chance for Sri Lanka to redeem wretched home run
India are brimming with confidence after sweeping both the Test and ODI legs of their Sri Lanka tour, but the home side will hope their recent successes in the shortest format can spur them towards a consolation win
- Australia to kick off limited-overs tour of India on September 17
Official announcement yet to be made as BCCI awaits clearance on two new venues - Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram
- India, Pakistan and Australia to tour England in 2018
India will return to England next year for a five-Test series, just like in 2014, after Pakistan kickstart England's home summer with two Tests at the end of May
- Lodha hand in BCCI's mega rights deals
Rahul Johri, the BCCI's CEO, feels transparency in the tendering process - as suggested by the Lodha Committee - has helped rake in record sums. Restricting the rights cycle to five years has helped too
- Conscious decision to bid for global rights - Star India CEO
Star India's strong presence in both television and digital spaces, as well as global markets, prompted the company to make a record-breaking bid for the IPL broadcast rights for the period 2018 to 2022
- Six stand-out numbers from the IPL media rights sale
A look at the six numbers that stood out from the IPL media rights sale
- Bumrah vaults to fourth in ODI bowling rankings
India's captain Virat Kohli has equalled the highest ODI rating points (887) by a India batsman, achieved by Sachin Tendulkar in 1998
- Star India wins IPL rights for US$ 2.55 billion
The BCCI has bagged INR 16,347.5 crore (US$ 2.5 billion) for its IPL television and digital rights from a single bidder, Star India, who made a single consolidated bid for rights worldwide
- Kohli credits Bumrah, spinners for series sweep
India's captain was also pleased with his batsmen and said the next step was to introduce some flexibility
- Bhuvneshwar, Kohli lead India to 5-0 sweep
Bhuvneshwar Kumar's maiden five-wicket haul in ODIs and Virat Kohli's 30th hundred in the format led India to a clinical six-wicket win that consigned Sri Lanka to a first ever home-series whitewash
- Fatigue weighing down Mendis - SL batting coach
Kusal Mendis is yet to make a substantial impact in the ODIs, producing scores of 36, 19, 1 and 1 so far
- India eye series whitewash, Dhawan to miss final match
A 5-0 result seems likely given India's dominance in the series but Sri Lanka will hope Upul Tharanga's return can spur them to a solitary victory
- Dhoni is not even half finished yet - Shastri
The India head coach said MS Dhoni is far from finished as a wicketkeeper-batsman and is very much in the management's scheme of things for the 2019 World Cup in England
- Will IPL media rights cross the billion-dollar mark?
A ready reckoner ahead of the media rights auction on September 4, where 24 companies could be in the fray as bidders
- Saurashtra making a mockery of Supreme Court order - Ghavri
With the state association offering its disbarred former secretary Niranjan Shah a way back in as CEO, Karsan Ghavri has written to the Committee of Administrators seeking direction
- Pandey keeps his name in India's middle-order conversation
Though recent attention has been on Kedar Jadhav, KL Rahul and Ajinkya Rahane, a half-century in Manish Pandey's first ODI since October 2016 highlighted the middle-order depth India has on offer
- End of the road for Gambhir and Yuvraj?
The pair does not feature among the 45 best first-class players in India outside the Test set-up anymore - or so their omission from the Duleep Trophy squads seems to suggest
- Bengal turn down Ojha's request for transfer to Hyderabad
Sourav Ganguly, president of the Cricket Association of Bengal, said that Bengal need Ojha in their team for the 2017-18 season
- Kohli, Rohit smash hundreds in crushing victory
A blistering 219-run stand between Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma laid the platform for India to inflict upon Sri Lanka their biggest defeat in a home ODI
- Raina, Parthiv, Abhinav to captain Duleep Trophy teams
The tournament, which will be held from September 7 to 29 in Kanpur and Lucknow, will be played with the pink ball under lights for the second successive year
- Series lost, Sri Lanka chase assured World-Cup spot
Losses in the final two ODIs may not keep Sri Lanka from automatically qualifying for World Cup 2019 - a lot depends on West Indies - but it's a risk they will not want to take
- Duleep Trophy restored, to be played with pink balls again
Four days after striking the Duleep Trophy off the 2017-18 domestic calendar, the BCCI has been forced to reverse its decision and restore it
- Kapugedera ruled out of series; Malinga to lead
Sri Lanka's stand-in captain aggravated a back injury during Sunday's ODI against India in Pallekele
- Crowd trouble from displeased SL fans delays India's win
With India needing eight runs to win, Sri Lanka fans, clearly displeased with their team's show, began to throw plastic bottles into the ground causing a 35-minute disruption
- Bumrah five-for, Rohit ton secure series win for India
India took an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series after their six-wicket win on an evening that was marred by crowd trouble
- Sri Lanka, new leader in tow, look to keep series alive
An injury and a suspension mean Sri Lanka are depleted going into the third ODI. Will India clinch the series or will the hosts, under new captain Kapugedera, manage to pull one back?
- Duleep Trophy scrapped from 2017-18 calendar
Normally the season-opener, the tournament has been deferred to the beginning of next season because of a cramped international calendar
- Realised offbreaks wouldn't help on this track - Dananjaya
Akila Dananjaya, who took 6 for 54, realised early on that the offbreak wouldn't be helpful against India in Pallekele and switched to bowling legbreaks and googlies instead
- Wanted to play Dananjaya as someone who bowls googlies - Bhuvneshwar
Bhuvneshwar Kumar revealed that he was especially mindful of Dananjaya's incoming delivery and walked in with a plan to counter it, after hauling India to an improbable win in the second ODI
- IPL media-rights bidding rescheduled for September 4
Yahoo and Discovery have joined Facebook and Twitter in a 24-strong list of bidders who have shown interest in the IPL media rights
- Dhoni, Bhuvneshwar trump Dananjaya's 6 for 54
Bhuvneshwar Kumar and MS Dhoni added an unbroken 100, an Indian record for the eighth wicket, to turn the tables on Sri Lanka and lead India to a three-wicket win
- 'BCCI a male chauvinist organisation' - Edulji
The former India captain, who is part of the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators to oversee the BCCI, believes certain members of the board have not been pleased with the recent success of the women's team
- Supreme Court issues notice to BCCI office bearers
The CoA has been directed to draft the new BCCI constitution as per the approved Lodha Committee recommendations
- Onus on youngsters to lift Sri Lanka out of the pits
India would not have expected their successes to come quite as easily as they have so far on this tour. There's little to suggest the trend will be bucked in Pallekele
- Pujara confirms return to Nottinghamshire
Cheteshwar Pujara, the India batsman, has confirmed his return to Trent Bridge for the final four Specsavers County Championship games of the 2017 season
- Samarth and Nair script comeback win
Karun Nair fell for 90 with his side two away from victory, but Ankit Bawne and Hanuma Vihari applied the finishing touches with six wickets to spare
- Dhawan leads brutal rout of Sri Lanka
After India's spinners dismissed the hosts for 216, Shikhar Dhawan smashed an unbeaten 132 of 90 balls to finish the chase in 28.5 overs
- South Africa v India: Boxing Day Test out, New Year likely to begin late
Cricket South Africa is understood to be mulling filling the Boxing-Day slot with a one-off Test against a different opponent
- 'Ready to lose a few games if we need to try out something'
Virat Kohli has said India will not be afraid of taking risks and experimenting with players in different roles in order to discover the best combination ahead of the 2019 World Cup
- Can ailing Sri Lanka spring a surprise?
India have runs, wickets, form and confidence on their side. Sri Lanka have the distant memory of that Oval victory and familiarity with conditions on theirs
- BCCI office bearers incur claims of over INR 4 crore in two years
Just over 40% of the total figure of INR 4.62 crore - INR 1.87 crores - was spent on allowances for just four office bearers, including the three senior-most figures currently
- Pitches, not Kuldeep, reason for Gujarat move - Piyush Chawla
Piyush Chawla's experience will be handy for a young side looking to build on recent Ranji success, says Gujarat captain Parthiv Patel
- West Indies to open U-19 World Cup against New Zealand
The 22-day tournament will feature 16 teams and will be played between January 13 and February 3
- CoA asks Supreme Court to remove BCCI's top office bearers
The CoA felt such a blunt measure was necessary only because the three office bearers - president, secretary and treasurer - had failed to ensure the implementation of the Lodha Committee's reforms
- Rohit 'not thinking too much' about vice-captaincy
India's ODI opener reflects on a decade in international cricket and how he spent the days sitting out of the Test series against Sri Lanka
- Shastri wants India to be the best fielding side at 2019 World Cup
The coach also has outlined another goal for the team: keep excelling in Test cricket
- South Africa A triumph with Junior Dala five-for
There were three India A wickets left standing on the final day and the seamer took three of them to wrap up a 235-run victory
- Rahul breaks into top ten for Test batsmen
In the allrounder rankings, Ravindra Jadeja was displaced from the top spot - after missing the Pallekele Test - by Shakib Al Hasan
- India A floundering in steep pursuit of 447
Half-centuries from Aiden Markram and Rudi Second, and wickets from Andile Phehlukwayo put the hosts in a commanding position
- Players mature quickly under new team culture - Kohli
This Indian team has rid itself of a culture in which newcomers were judged, according to Virat Kohli
- 'If Dhoni is not delivering, we will have to look at alternatives' - MSK Prasad
The chairman of selectors admitted MS Dhoni was not an automatic selection anymore, and made it clear that the next few months will see a lot of rotation in the ODI squad
- India's bid to adapt to new ODI landscape
The squad to tour Sri Lanka hints that the selectors have understood the importance of wristspinners and attacking middle-order batsmen
- Ashwin, Shami lead three-day rout as India complete whitewash
R Ashwin and Mohammed Shami finished with combined second-innings figures of 43.3-12-100-7 as India completed a 3-0 whitewash with an innings win in Pallekele
- Ashwin's county cricket stint confirmed
This will be the India offspinner's first stint in county cricket, and he could be available as early as Worcestershire's match against Gloucestershire starting on August 28
- Piedt, Hendricks three-fors choke India A
South Africa A amassed a 292-run lead courtesy a disciplined show from their bowlers and an unbroken second-innings fifty stand from their openers
- Yuvraj dropped; Ashwin, Jadeja rested for Sri Lanka ODIs
Yuvraj Singh and wicketkeepers Dinesh Karthik and Rishabh Pant have been omitted from India's squad for the limited-overs leg of the Sri Lanka tour
- Don't remember when I last scored hundred - Pandya
After scoring his first Test hundred - also his first official one - the India allrounder was so intoxicated that he just started blurting things out
- Modi calls time on cricket administration 'for now'
In his letter to BCCI CEO Rahul Johri, Lalit Modi wrote of his decision to resign as president of the Nagaur District Association and urged the national board to release the funds due to the RCA
- Pandya's maiden ton headlines 15-wicket day
Hardik Pandya's maiden Test hundred was the highlight of a triumphant second day for India, who made Sri Lanka follow on for the second successive Test match
- Stephen Cook makes case with 120
The opener's 41st first-class hundred could put him back in contention for the senior side in the home summer
- Under-19 Asia Cup moved out of India
The Asian Cricket Council has withdrawn the hosting rights of the 2017 Under-19 Asia Cup from India and handed it over to Malaysia, following their annual general body meeting
- Sri Lanka fight back after Dhawan-Rahul stand
On a day of two halves, Sri Lanka's bowlers fought back after a 188-run opening stand between Shikhar Dhawan and KL Rahul, taking six wickets for 141 to leave the Pallekele Test nicely poised
- BCCI to appeal against Kerala High Court order on Sreesanth ban
A BCCI official confirmed that the board would approach the court "very soon"
- Dhoni, Yuvraj under spotlight in ODI selection
Virat Kohli played down questions over his availability for the ODI series, and stressed that he had plans and combinations that he wanted to discuss with the selectors
- Saurashtra announce Uthappa signing for 2017-18 season
The move ends the senior batsman's 15-year-long association with the Karnataka team
- Sri Lanka pin hopes on quicks to avoid whitewash
Both teams have lost an influential spinner - Ravindra Jadeja and Rangana Herath, but India still appear to have all bases covered on a green Pallekele surface
- Vijay hopes to make 'second innings' count
The India opener was hopeful playing in the Tamil Nadu Premier League T20s could get him in the right frame of mind after a five-month layoff from international cricket
- Rana leads rout as India seal youth ODIs
England Under-19s suffered a chastening eight-wicket defeat by India in front of the TV cameras in Canterbury to leave them 2-0 down in the five-match Royal London One-Day Series.
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